ANGLES workshop and competition

Again, it’s me, blogging in the dining hall. Now, let’s talk about the public speaking competition that my school held last few weeks. The title of the workshop is ANGLES (A New Generation of Loquacious Speakers). Every secondary one student is to attend this workshop.
On the day, we went to drama centre and Mr. Tommie Chen briefed us about the public speaking competition. Later, two seniors shared with us their experience and taught us how to present a good speech. After that, a senior ask us to go back to our respective classes and each senior is to pick a student among the classmates and he will be chosen to attend the semi-finals. Our title is “money is the root of all evil”. The best speaker is my friend, Shawn Ang De Xian. He have to attend the semi-finals.
The day had come, it’s the semi-final. We went to the auditorium to give support to Shawn. We are given one ACE handout each, and we were asked to fill it and hand it to our LA teacher. The first one who came out was Shawn, his title is ‘’speech is silver, silence is gold’’. He agrees with the title. His speech was marvelous! Then, every participant also spoke greatly.
The most important time has arrived; each participant was given 1 impromptu title 10 minutes before their speech. I personally think that Shawn’s speech is just nice because he lacked confidence. Almost all the participant’s speech is better than his because they spoke confidently. Everyone jeered the other consortiums and Ms. Laura Ng (queen of literature) stood up and scolded us for our intolerable behavior.
After that, the judges went to the library and calculated the marks. Then, they announced the prizes and Shawn won a merit but he did not get into the grand finale. The champion and the first runner-up was from the iSpark consortium, whereas the 2nd runner-up was from the Aphelion consortium, which is my consortium.
iSpark was chosen to the grand finale as they grabbed two places. Ihope that our consortium can win the next ANGLES competition.