Formal tone must be used

While presenting his Grammarian report, TM Imran pointed out that the informal words (like, so that etc) should always be avoided and formal tone must be used while quoting someone.

The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club (PTC) and Clifton Toastmasters Club (CTC) was held on 24^th March, 2013. Total nine members attended the meetign. Excluding TM Sohail who joined us later in the evening.

The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the meeting was presided over by TM Zafar Iqbal. The Big-3 included TM Sattar as the Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Daniyal as the Table Topics Master and TM Liaquat as the General Evaluator. Table Topics Evaluator was TM Zafar Iqbal.

Roles were performed by TM Jaan as the Ah-Counter, TM Panjwani as the Word-master (word of the Day was “Creative”), TM Imran as the Grammarian and TM Aqeel as the Timer.

The Table Topics Master created an imaginary water project company and assigned every speaker a designation in that company. The catch, however, was that every member had to explain himself before and after the training.

Speaker                                Designation

TM Zafar Iqbal                   HR Manager

TM Jaan                             IT Guy

TM Sattar                           CEO

TM Shahrukh                      Jealous Colleague/ Production Manager

TM Aqeel                           Chairman of the Board

TM Imran                           Engineer

Tm  Panjwani                      Finance Manager

TM Liaquat                         Warehouse Incharge

TM Daniyal                         Marketing Manager

TM Sohail                           Manager MIS

Prepared Speech was presented by TM Shahrukh which was evaluated by TM Panjwani. Project eight of the Competent Communicator manual was repeated and the title of the speech was “The Power of the Vote.”

A brilliant book review session was conducted by our learned member, TM Zafar Iqbal. The reviewed book was The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak.

Media is making a monkey out of the masses

TM Fahim rightly said that the media is making a monkey out of the masses by feeding them junk when he was asked to speak during the Table Topics sessions.

Combines meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club (PTC) and Clifton Toastmasters Club (CTC) was held on 17^th March, 2012 at the Carlton Hotel. Total twelve members attended the meeting.

Toastmaster’s pledge was observed by TM Shahrukh who was also the Toastmaster of the Meeting. TM Zafar Iqbal was the Presiding Officer. TM Jaan Ali was the Table Topics Master, TM Sajjad was the General Evaluaor and TM Fahim was the Table Topics Evaluator.  

Roles were performed by TM Sattar as the Ah-Counter and Vote counter, TM Naveed as the Word-Master (word of the day was bleak), TM Fazal as the Grammarian and TM Fahim as the Timer.

The theme of the Table Topics session was, the “Media and the Mass Communication.”

   

      SPEAKERS               TOPICS

a)      TM Mujeeb:   Globalisation and Mass Communication

b)      TM Naveed:   Role of Media in Cultural Imperialism

c)       TM Fazal:     Democracy and Media

d)      TM Fahim:     Effects of Media on Masses

e)      TM Adnan Motiwala:    Is the role of media same in dictatorship as in democracy?

f)       TM Sajjad:     The role of PEMRA nowadays.

g)      TM Sattar:     Media’s Rules and Ethics

h)      TM Zfar Iqbal:            Media and Money

i)        TM Shahrukh:           What is the importance of a case being highlighted in media

TM Dniyal presented a prepared speech from the fourth project of the Competent Communication manual. The topic of the speech was “The brain is our universe.” The evaluator of the speech was TM Hanif Sattar.

Combines Meeting of 10th March, 2013

The combined meeting of Professionals Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on 10^th March, 2013. The venue of the meeting was Carlton Hotel. Total 15 members participated.

The oath ceremony was observed by our young member, TM Taimur, who handed the lectern to the Presiding officer, TM Adnan. Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Shahrukh, Table Topics Master was TM Adnan, General Evaluator was TM Hanif Sattar and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Khalid.

TM Chandna was the Time. Word-master and Grammarian was TM Liaquat Ali and word of the day was “Conviction”. TM Bakshi was the Vote Counter and the Ah-Counter.

Table topics session was dedicated to the Women’s Day (8^th, March). Prepared speeches were presented by TM Daniyal and TM Sajjad who were evaluated by TM Bakshi and TM Rafi Haider, respectively. A special session was also organized where TM Zafar Iqbal presented the audience with the insight of the fiction novels with specific reference to the major themes of the four major novels. TM Daniyal was the winner of the Prepared Speeches Session.

For Next Meeting:

Toastmasters of the Meeting: TM Shahrukh

Table Topic Master: TM Khalid

Table Topics Evaluator: TM Hanif Sattar

General Evaluator: TM Sajjad

Prepared Speeches: TM Daniyal and TM Taimur