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FALLBROOK – Participants in the 2015 Miss Fallbrook Ambassador 'Live Your Dream' program, sponsored by Fallbrook Soroptimist, learned about public speaking at two workshops on Feb. 14 and 18 at Fallbrook Library.
Carol Hodges of Fallbrook Village Toastmasters "did a magnificent job teaching the class to this year's 14 contestants," Soroptimist organizers said.
The contestants were taught skills and techniques commonly used in Toastmasters such understanding body language and speech organization, how to say it, and how to use vocal variety. She had the contestants work in small groups practicing short (impromptu) speeches of 45 seconds to about one minute. Since contestants have to answer an impromptu question on stage during the competition in that time frame, they took advantage of practicing the skills.
In the first workshop, the participants were assigned to write a three- to five-minute ice breaker speech on themselves and then present it at the second session.
The participants "all truly did a fantastic job and it was really wonderful getting to know each of them through their speeches," said organizers.
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