The 67th Machida Bilingual TMC regular meeting

Date / 日時: August 25th, 2012 (Saturday) 14:30-16:45
Venue / 会場: Machida Central Public Hall, Room 4 (まちだ中央公民館　学習室4)
Attendees / 出席者: Members 14, Guests 6
司会: TM Kei Is
審査委員長: TM KH
計時係1: TM Kei Im
計時係2: TM TW
集計係: TM SI
集計係: TM Uc

今回は前半14:30から15:30までインハウスのテーブルトピックコンテストで、エリア45コンテストへの出場者を決定しました。

インハウスコンテスト　日本語の部
テーブルトピック: もし人間以外の動物に生まれ変わるならば、あなたは何にうまれかわりたいですか。
スピーカー:
 TM Ken I
 TM TA
 TM Ri S
 TM TO
 TM YI

In House Contest English Session
Table Topic: If you could travel through time in the past or the future by a Time Machine, which would you like to go, to the future or to the past?
Speakers:
 TM TO
 TM Ri S
 TM TA
 TM Ken I
 TM YI

以上よりエリア45コンテストにはTM Ken I, TM TA, TM Ri Sの3名が参加する事に決まりました。お三方のご活躍を期待します。

例会開始前にコンテストについてのブリーフィングが行われ、緊張感ある中にも楽しいコンテストが行われました。

後半15:45からは通常例会を行いました。

TMOD: TM Kei I
Helpers
Ah-Counter: TM KH
Grammarian: TM TA
Timer: TM Kei Im
Vote Counter: TM Ri S

Prepared Speech 1
"The Key to CS.  Did you know??"
TM NT (7'46)
He introduced what CS stands for.  CS stands for Customer Satisfaction.  The key factors to CS are 1. Safety  2. Courtesy  3. Show  4. Efficiency.  He explained these factors with his experiences and is successfully persuaded the audience.

Prepared Speech 2
"What should I do?"
TM YT (5'17)
She introduced what Dr. Helen Caldicott, an Australian Physician who studies especially for kids and advocates anti-nuclear, says about the situation of Japan after 3.11.  The situation is worse than that of Chernobyl and TM YT cast the question what we should do for it.

1st Evaluator  TM SI 3'07
2nd Evaluator  TM TO 2'48

Report from Ah Counter
There were not so many fillers and unnecessary utterings.
Report from Grammarian  There were not serious grammatical mistakes, instead there was a good expression, Audience Satisfaction.

General Evalutaion: TM Ken I
He pointed out two good points and one advice for improvement for each Evaluator.

Best Evaluator award: TM TO
Best Speaker award: TM YT

Written by SK