Sunday, April 27, 2008
For members of Speech and Drama: (I sound so SEROUS)
This is the requirements for Level 8. Please take note. You are taking the last Australian Guild of Music Exam of your life!!! (It is going to be damn LONG)
Before that, I have some things to say. Mr Thomas said that Mr Winkinson(I think it is spelt like that) is reluctant to let us take Level 8 Exam because nobody took this Exam before. People who takes this Exam are people who wants to be Speech and Drama teachers. We are the FIRST batch. Apparently you may fail, so he want us to consider and think carefully. DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THE EXAM??? I will type and print out the requirements so be sure to get them from me. The fee is about $150. (very expensive, I noe.)
BTW, it is VERY different from Level 7. The difference is too GREAT! OMG. I was shocked when got the paper. Be ready to read on.
Effective Speaking Level 8
1) 2 prepared speeches
(i) persuasive speech
(ii) informative speech
(Maximum 8 minutes)
2) Give a short impromptu talk on a topic given by the examiner 10minutes before the Exam.
3) Sight reading
4) General Discussion
Example of Sight Reading (A passage given to you and you have to read it immediately with no errors- In fact, I also dun understand. Mr Thomas say MUST learn how to PRETEND but no stopping or pauses are allowed) :
Epilogue
One cannot choose but wonder. Will he ever return? I may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stones; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grosteque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. He may even now - if I may use the phrase - be wondering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline seas of the Triassic Age. Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men,but with the riddles of our own time aniswered and its wearisome problems solved? Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed ma's culminating time! I say, for my own part. He, I know - for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made - thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so. But to me the future is still black and blank - is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And now have by me, for my comfort, two strange flowers - shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.
From: H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (Hainemann: New Windmills, 1989; first published 1985), p.118.
Wah! My hand damn pain from all the typing. Anyway, this is what he (Mr Thomas) gave us during the lesson.
And NO more lessons in the May and June. Lessons start in July.
However, during this period of time, it is necessary that you finish writing your
2 speeches- Persuasive Speech and Informative Speech.
music makes you lose control
