Brickbats
Grammar
1. Fellow Toastmaster => Fellow Toastmasters
2. Every people can be successful like him one day => Everyone can be successful...
3. Play sports with our colleague => Play sports with our colleagues
4. Are you allowing people to drove you... => Are you allowing people to drive you...
5. Elderlies => The elderly
Vocabulary
1. By mentioning about a historical event => By mentioning a historical event
2. For the purpose of our guests => For the benefit of our guests
3. Based on the feedback he got from his evaluator => Based on the feedback he received..
4. Nice and elegant use of the English language => impressive and impactful use of the English langauge
5. Except for that, it can be used for many other tricks => Besides that, it can be used for many other tricks
6. So move next... => so moving on
7. I feel the environment is okay => I feel the environment is comfortable
8. I need a job for surviving matters => I need a job for survival
9. Working in Singapore is very pressurised => Working in Singapore is very pressurising
10. People are improved => People are improving
11. Everyday every persons is our teacher => Everyone can be a teacher in our everyday lives
12. I am going to bring you an important person in my life => I am going to tell you about an important person in my life.
13. So guys (gentlemen) => So gentlemen...
14. No shaking hands any more => No shaky hands
Sentence structure
1. As well as we also see that => In addition, we see that...
2. My occupation is software engineer => I work as a software engineer.
3. Although Schooling, but... => Although Schooling
4. Can I invite the evaluator to read out the objectives? => I would like to invite the evaluator to read out the objectives.
5. Any VA kind of presentation => any kind of presentation involving VA
6. Further, you go on => In addition, you said...
7. Opinions they themselves not agreed with => Opinions that they do not agree with
8. Why you try so hard? => Why do you try so hard?
Pronunciation
Swifter
Golden
Yacht /yot/
Pleasure
Whether you have read /red/
Wee Ming (Meng )
Bouquets
Alliteration
1. Scope your speech
2. Money matters
3. Measured by money
4. Converse and communicate
Metaphors
1. Simple calling and sms machine
2. Silence is golden
3. The whole world collapsed on her.
Parallel structure
1. What a waste, what a shame
2. One disaster after another; one calamity after another; one horrible thing after another
Triads
1. Swifter, faster, higher
[Note: Olympics motto should be Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger"]
2. More efficient, more organised, more enjoyable
3. Smarter, easier to use, more intuitive
4. New, unusual, novel
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