Tuesday, December 22, 2015

13- Speak Sense Season 2: Inter High School public speaking competition


Last November 27, 2015, The Asia Pacific College invited 10 high school students to join the Inter High School Public Speaking Competition with the APC Speaks as the main organizer for the said event. The mechanics of this competition is to make a speech that has a relation with the theme “The Best of Times or Worst of Times. It’s the only time we’ve got”. Each speaker presented a speech that has something to do with their own life experiences or perhaps a life-and-death-situation. After delivering their speech, they are given some question from the judges that they should answer.


One of my teacher told me that he favoured the speaker who had a life-and-death-situation with a hotdog and a cola. I know it seems funny hotdog and cola with life-and-death-situation. Anyway, my teacher favoured this one since his speech was good although the content still needs to improve.
Another speaker delivered a some sort of poetry that has connection with the theme although I find myself confused at some point since he delivered too fast and he even forgot some of the lines which earned a chuckle for some audience.

 As for my favourite, It was the last speaker which I have chosen. Her speech was really intense since she talked about her dysfunctional family, her fears for her parents and sibling, and her life. She even talked about committing suicide since she couldn’t bear the pain but she stop and think of the consequences after that. Her speech was really inspiring even though I do not have a dysfunctional family I could empathize with her problems.


 After all the speeches the APC Speaks presented a game which is called Speed Speech. A game where you should give a speech about the topic assign to you. For example, your first topic is juice you have to tell us about juice and 15 seconds later the emcee would give another topic which is not really related to the first topic which i why this game was a fun to all of us since we chuckled and laughed at some players.

Overall, the program was a success and it was a fun and a good learning experience.

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