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Our Special Activities for July 2006 - June 2007
Jun. 23, Sat. 2007 STMC Discussion Session
Discussion leader TM Tanaka led the session with follwing two intersting games to activate their speaking English. You can imagine how the participants enjoyed the session.

1. The attendants were divided into two groups.
A person from "A" group wrote a name of the famous person and  showed it to his/her group. S/He asked to "B" group, "Who am I?" "B"  group asked the questions about the famous person written in the  paper and the reply was given only "Yes" or "No".
Time limit was two minutes. Each group competed each other to get  more points within the time limit.

2. A funny story creation. The first person said, "I heard a rumor  that Mr. Koizumi, former prime minister, was going to get married.  Do you know who she is? TM YK" Then, TM YK continued the story by  making it as funny as possible. In this way, the creation of the  one-sentence story continued by all the participants.

Please join the next session on July 28. Here's the information.
‘We had these special events as follows besides the regular meetings.



May 12, Sat. 2007		 Joint Meeting with Yokohama TMC
We had a joint meeting with Yokohama TMC.Nearly 40 members from both club gathered and deepend our frendship through the regular activities. Here're the award winners.

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The Best Evaluator: TM Yokota from YTMC
The Best Table Topics Speaker: TM Yukawa from SYMC
TMOD: TM Takemoto from STMC
The Best Prepared Speaker: TM Izumi from YTMC
Congratulations!
After the joint meeting, we enjoyed the after meeting party with delicious food and drink, and of course merry talks!
Cheers to the better future of both clubs!
May 26, Sat. 2007 STMC Discussion Session
Discussion leader TM Tsujikawa leads the session with a controversial topic of "Baby Hatch," which was set up at Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto.
Since it is too complicated to express "for" or "against," he invites the participants to discuss this issue freely in groups.

The discussion session like this brings us a good opportunity to discuss topics of the day.
Mar. 24, Sat. 2007 STMC Discussion Session
Discussion leader TM Kaneko leads a party of 10 members to make 1-minite prompt speeches respectively. The subject is given as any word (item) beginning with the letter at the end of the previous speakerfs subject word. Thus, each speaker is required to pick up a proper item and start describing it in an instant.

The discussion session always brings fun and a good exercise to brush up our prompt speaking skills like this.
Mar. 10, Sat. 2007 The 2007 In-House International Speech Contest

Here's the report from TM Tanabe, the contest chair.

We held In-House Speech Contest with the participation of 6 Contestants successfully on march 10. 2007. Full of variety, good sense of humor and well-rehearsed delivery enchanted the audience from the beginning to the end.

TMs Shiobara, Kato and Tomita were inspired by the episode in their traveling abroad and developed into environmental issue or entertaining stories. TMs Chandra and Yukawa delivered their own stories, which were about the days of a computer addict and the days of full of fortune.TM Kaneko presented a romantic poem and the story around it in Heian era.

The result of In-House Speech Contest is as follows:
The first prize winner is TM Yoko Tomita.
The title of her speech is "The Best to My Future."
She proceeds to Area 32 International Speech Contest hosted by Kamakura TMC on March 25.
The second prize winner is TM Tsuneo Kato.
The title of his speech is "Campaign 'Mottainai' for saving people from starvaation." He is alternate.
The third prize winner is TM Chandra Shekhar Nyalapogula. The title of his speech is "Computers in My Life."

Thank you very much, Contestttants, Judges, role-takers and guests for your active participation and kind cooperation.
Feb. 24, Sat. 2007 STMC Discussion Session
With Discussion Leader, TM Tanabe, the 11 participants enjoyed role-playing of museum curators and presented explanation about a piece of masterpieces. The painting by Modigliani, Millet and Arcimboldo, the sculptures of the
Venus of Milo and ”n“ͺŠΟ‰Ή by Enkuu and the photos on the magazine "Life" were introduced by them with their unique angle and understanding.
Jan. 28, Sat. 2007 STMC Discussion Session
Discussion Leader, TM Hirota used "life cards"during the session. Members discussed various bad manners in a commuting train and evaluated their level of impoliteness using the cards that included gaman-patience,
settoku-persuasion, and rikai-understanding. They found the most detestable behavior in a train car is to keep coughing without covering one's mouth above all bad manners listed in a Nikkei article used in the discussion.
Nov. 25, Sat. 2006 STMC Discussion Session
The topic was "Which invention is the most important of the 4?" The leader, TM Hirakawa, listed 37 inventions in history and gave each group 4 inventions out of 37. And each group discussed which one is the most important and which one is the least important and why so. The topic was very interesting, so if you missed the session and want to try it yourself,
please see the list here.
Oct. 28, Sat. 2006 STMC Discussion Session
The leader,TM Ishii, prepared the topics to discuss.
"How do we enjoy this beautiful season, fall?
As a good season for food, art or sports?"
We had a good time exchanging ideas in pair or group.
Oct. 14, Sat. 2006 Area 32 Humorous Speech Contest
We hosted the Area 32 Humorous Speech Contest.
Please see the photo and some details here.
Sep. 23 Sat. 2006 STMC In-House Humorous Speech Contest
We had an Exciting In-House Humorous Speech Contest conducted by Contest Chair TM Kaneko, one of our experienced members. Eight contestants including one invited speaker gave fine speeches and made the room full of laughter. TM Kato won the first place and we are very proud to sendhim to the Area 32 Speech Contest dated on Oct 14.
The second prize went to TM Sakihara. Congratulations!!
Sep.23, Sat. 2006 STMC Discussion Session
Led by the leader, TM Ashihara, we discussed time management in our daily life ascross the world. Westerners start woring earlier in the day than Japanese. Islums don't work on Friday. Many take a nap in the noon reces in Latin, mid-East and tropical countries. Many other practices were taken up. Why they do so was in the height of our interest.
Our Entertainment Events for July 2006 - June 2007
Dec. 9,Sat. 2006 STMC Christams and Year-end Party
After the regular meeting, we had our Christmas and Year-end party as a customary event. Led by the party leader TM Ueda, we all shared a joyful time with talk, dance, music and delicious food together.
photo by TM M. Tanaka
Sep. 2-3,
Sat.-Sun. 2006		 STMC Summer Camp
Hakone summer camp successfully finished, even though the
number of partcipants dropped to 13 in total. They all
enjoyed the variety of fun and educational sessions, such as
a skit game to learn skills of impromptu speaking, a board
game to be better communicators and "Sell Unsellable" to be
persuasive speakers and more.
Please see the participants' beaming faces here.
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