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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Travel the World By Visiting Toastmasters International Online Meetings

 Which club should I visit? It depends on the hours and time zones and days and size of the meeting and what you want to gain.

Singapore Online Dynamic. Fridays at 9.30- pm, Singapore time for two hours. This club has the most meetings, one every week. Also lots of opportunity for non-members who are visiting to speak impromptu in two minute table topics. It you join this club you get about 52 meetings a year for about 100 US dollars plus twenty or thirty dollars to sign up for a Pathway. 

What are the Pathways? A series, a bit like a language or O level course. You do, a series of 16 speeches, starting with four minutes minimum about yourself. Most are 5 to 7 minute speeches. 

The series ends with a longer speech of about 20 minutes, or a project such as creating a newsletter, with a speech about your challenges and successes. Most people who are interested in public speaking start with Presentation Pathway. I did this.

 For my second pathway I chose Humour. If you are in management you might choose one of the management pathways. 

You can see that with four meetings a month, you could finish the series in four months or less. In another club meeting once or twice a month, it would take much longer. Alternatively, you could do as I do, and belong to two or more clubs. 

Which other clubs could you join?

Singapore International Dynamic. Happy New year from President Edward in Belize, Angela in Singapore, Shehan in Sri Lanka, and other members in the Far East, Middle East and around the world. A cosy little cosmopolitan club.

If you want a club on Wednesday Evening or Saturday afternoon, try Braddel Heights Advanced. 

Tuesday - 4th Tuesday, try TCA.

Monday - Nee Soon South.

Useful Websites
toastmasters international find a club
About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

 Please share links to your favourite posts.


Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When



 


Friday, June 19, 2020

Do You Need Help With English? Do You Know Somebody who does?





We are increasingly communicating with others overseas who are keen to get help with the English language.
Angela Lansbury Punctation prepares you to read aloud, also prepares you when reading silently to yourself to prepare your expectation and make sense of what follows. Commas are to tell you to pause before an exclamation or short sentence. When reading aloud, you use a different tone of voice than that of the narrator. The colon or double period tells you to take a deep breath before a long sentence or several sentences. 

Punctuation is different in other languages. So is sentence structure. 

The easiest way to correct your work is to use grammarly.com

Many people join Toastmasters groups to learn English. At Toastmasters meetings there is a Grammarian or Language Evaluator who comments on the good use of language and introduces a word of the day, sometimes some grammar rules, and uses of language.

Angela Lansbury, English tutor, and Language Evaluator (Grammarian) at Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Club, Singapore, and other clubs worldwide.







  • Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
    I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

    Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

    I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app 

  • learncool.sg

  • Or quicker to type and easier to remember: 


  • Useful Websites
  • https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/gallery/2014/sep/01/londons-book-benches-readers-photos
  • https://www.pinterest.co.uk/ilanacohensella/book-benches/

  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_place_names

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_Australian_place_names

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_New_Zealand_place_names

  • https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
    translate.google.com
    duolingo.com



  • Wednesday, October 16, 2019

    How do they count votes? Would you like to be a tally counter?

    There are many ways of counting winners, and votes.
    First past the post.
    Points over the season.

    Judges vote.
    the public present vote.

    Vote on tear-off slips.

    Vote on your favourite.

    Vote the vest speech or the best performance.

    Vote on menti.com

    Vote with a show of hands.

    Vote with eyes shut and a show of hands.

    Braddell Heights Advanced club needs a tally counter for the humorous speech contest on Saturday 19 October 2019, 2pm-5pm at Braddell Heights CC. it sounds like a dull job, just going around collecting bits of paper for judges' voting slips. Not so. Why?

    It is fascinating to see how you can add the numbers in columns up and down and have the tally counter and chief judge all double check.

    Points can be voted first, points for second, and so on.

    What about invalid votes?

    Then what do you do with a tie? Casting vote. Tie breaker judge's vote?

    Every chief judge has a slightly different take on it.

    Please call me or VPE Faith if you want to be a tally counter or know somebody who would enjoy or profit from the experience.

    About the author
    Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. President of Braddell Heights Advanced Club.

    Saturday, August 31, 2019

    Chocolate Factory & Farm Visits & Gifts





    AUSTRALIA
    930 Philipp Island Road, Victoria, Australia.

    See Tripadvisor.



    SWITZERLAND
    Alprose museum, factory and shop, Switzerland.

    The Hershey Story. Taste drinking chocolate from around the world at the Hershey Museum on 63 West Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.




    UK
    Cadbury, Birmingham.




    From Amazon








    From Amazon



    Singapore airlines is currently (August 2019) offering ice cream tubs on the flights to and from London and in the airport lounge at Changi, Singapore.

    My favourite ice cream on the Singapore airline plane was chocolate orange from Salcombe Dairy in the UK. Not the vanilla, not the Singapore Sling flavour ice cream, but the chocolate orange.

    For a chocolate theme toastmasters meeting in Singapore at Braddell Heights Advanced speakers' club, on Wednesday Sept 4th and it will be repeated on later dates. Chocolates included, ten singapore dollars for visitors but free to members of Toastmasters or if you join BHA club which costs 180 for the year if transferring or adding a club, plus a 20 dollar fee to join Toastmasters International if not already a members, which includes the magazine. Food included at every meeting.

    For Chocolate shops, awfullychocolate.com see later posts.

    Useful Websites
    The Hershey Story, Pennsylvania, USA
    Hersheystory.org
    https://salcombedairy.co.uk/
    https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/sg/

    Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Facebook Page
    https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Braddell%20Heights%20Advanced%20Toastmasters%20Club&epa=SEARCH_BOX

    About the Author
    Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, based in London, England, and Singapore. Please share links to your favourite post. See later post on chocolate museums and chocolate kits.