Elocution competition

Good morning dear Judges, teachers and

my dear friends present here. I am mast.
Isaac Nial and I will be your compere for
this elocution competition.

“Speech is power; speech is to

persuade, to convert to compel.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls.

An elocution is the art of speaking. Today

we have 19 participants to battle it out in
the elocution arena. But before that we
would like introduce our judges.

1) Ms Lira Rodrigues, who is from our

Higher Secondary and got her M.A and
B.ed. She has been teaching for the
past 25 years. Her hobbies are
 Gardening, music and reading. Give a
round of applause.
2) Ms Grisel Zuzarte, who is an English
and French teacher at the H.S. Her
hobbies are jewelry making, travelling
and designing. Give a round applause.
3) Mrs. Clency D’silva, who teaches
English and geography in our school.
Her hobbies are Dancing, gardening,
singing and Creativity. Give another
round of applause.

The topics for this elocution competition

are:

1) India of my Dreams.
2) Is our present education system job
oriented?
3) Social media a boon or a bane?

To acquaint our contestants and our

judges with the rules, here they are:
1) The speeches will be in English
2) The maximum time duration for the
speech is 4 minutes
3) There will be a warning bell at the
end of the 3rd minute and the final
bell at 4 minutes.
4) The qualifying time is 2 and a half
minutes.
5) Students exceeding 4 minutes will
receive 5 minus points.
6) The decision of our judges will be
final and binding.

The judging criteria are based on:

Content-10 points

Diction-10 points

Performance in Body language-10 points.

Voice modulation-10 points

Our first contestant 1) Mast Chrysander
from std 9A next Mast Aaron fernandes
be ready.

2) Mast Aaron fernandes from std 8A

3) Miss Aditi Thayil from 10B

4) Mast Kish Fernandes from std 8C

5) Miss Deepika Iti from std 10A

6) Miss Natasha Gaikwad from std 10C

7) Miss Anzy Rodrigues from std 8B

8) Mast Clive Gomes from std 8C

9) Mast Cyrus Mesquita from std 9B

10) Miss Lucrencia Gomes from std 9C

11) Miss Jesma Fernandes from std 9B

12) Miss Leandra Fernandes from std 9C

13) Mast Ishan Kumar from std 10C

14) Mast Shawn D’costa 10B

15) Mast Lucky Pacheco 8A

16) Miss Anoshka Remedy Rodrigues 8B

17) Miss Grestina Fernandes from std

10A

18) Miss Alloysha Miranda 9B

19) Our Final contestant Miss Eliska

Nerissa D’mello from std 9A

Pls give a loud applause for all the

contestants. They have really put in hard
work.

We would like to present a token of our

gratitude to our judges.

Thank you to all the contestants for

participating and our judges for coming.

And also a thank you to our elocution

committee Sir Ralph D’souza and Tr
Snehal Parab for organizing this
competition