I am a speech coach at SSBS and a few months ago, I helped two kids prepare for a speech competition. Both of them went on to win first and second place in the Shanghai city portion. Phoebe, the sweetest third grader of ever, won first and will now be competing in the national competition in Beijing next week.
Because she has to make sure she's on top of her game, the administration asked me to do training with her in these last few weeks leading up to the competition. Not only does she have to give her speech, but she has to have a talent and be prepared to answer questions for 1 minute. When I asked her last week what her talent was going to be, she said "I'm going to tell a joke." When I asked her what the joke was, she didn't know. Today, we worked on the joke. She told me it was called the 1-2-3-4-5 joke (a joke with a title, so you know it's going to be good). We had to work out some kinks, but I think she is ready to kill it in the talent portion.
Sorry about the quality, I had to use a compressor to make the video small enough to upload.
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