Your impromptu speech topic is in the bag. Put your hand in there and feel, but don’t look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table Topics is the impromptu speaking portion of a Toastmasters club meeting. Last night at the Pioneer Toastmasters Club meeting in Boise Brian Reublinger (DTM) was the Table Topics Master. He had a row of numbered paper lunch bags. Participants picked a number and got one. Then they were to put a hand inside and feel the object there, but not look at it until after giving their one-to-two-minute speech.

 

I had never seen that type of question before. But it was described by Central Valley Toastmasters Club in an article titled 50 Fun Table Topics:

 

“#12

Have an object in a bag that the Table Topics speaker has to feel and describe to the club. The club then guesses what was described. Alternatively, the respondent may look at the object before describing it.”

 

And it is a variation on one described by Mark Lavergne at District 6 Toastmasters in another article titled 101 Ideas for Great Table Topics:

 

“ ’Whatchamacallit’ #3 – Trust Your Feelings

Table Topics respondents are given an opportunity reach into a bag of assorted objects and pick an object to feel. The respondent leaves the object in the bag and describes it merely by feel.”