2007/12/18 Jenny Hung's C6 speech

C6 speech（Vocal Variety, 5 to 7 minutes）
Title: You wanna be on top?

On my C4 speech, I mentioned the show “One Million Star”. It leaded a tendency towards singing contest, as if we hold singing contest for Christmas party, right! We can see more and more similar shows on TV, “Sunday Happy Star” and “Super Idol”. People discuss it and go after the competitors, and the media cover it everyday. Why can the TV show cause such a big stir in entertainment, even in our life? They make the show so true to our life. Everyone needs a stage to present himself or herself.
All the competitors have the same hobby. They like singing. They attend the contest to show their great interests in singing and make their dreams come true. To achieve the goal, they practice once and once, rehearse again and again, lean experience from each competition and each judge’s words, and improve it step by step. Sure, someone will be eliminated in the early stage, and someone will stay at last. However, it’s just a beginning. It’s a chance and a way to stand on the stage.
“You wanna be on top?” It’s a slogan from American Next Top Model. It makes me immensely impressive. Yep, if we want to be on top, we should pay more efforts and have a try. In our life, we have a lot of opportunities. Sometimes we miss it, and sometimes we take it. So, it just depends on what we are going to do.
My fellow members, as Toastmaster, we are here because we like English. Toastmaster provides us not only a big stage to speak English, but also a chance to show ourselves and learn English. We write down the scripts to prepare, and do rehearsals once and once again. When delivering, we use the different skills we learn to enrich our speech. (eyes contact, body language, vocal variety) At last, evaluators will give some suggestions to make us become better and better. Also, language evaluator will correct our grammar, pronunciation and so on. How to find such a great club?
I still remember the first time I stood in front of you. It was Table Topic time. My mind went blank. I almost couldn’t say anything and answer the question. When I delivered C1 speech, I was shaking with nervous and afraid to see all of you. After more than one year, now I stand in front of you and deliver my C6 speech. I’m still nervous but I’m not afraid. I learn form everyone, every speech, and every meeting during these days. It’s a process to be close to top.
You wanna be on top? Snatch at every chance and learn from it. Toastmaster