A National English Speech Competition for Year 13 was held at the Church College, Pesega, last week, which included colleges from the big island of Savai’i.
The students were given a range of topics to randomly pick and then spoke about on the spot.
At the end of the competition, Le Grande Lolo from Pesega College took 1st place, Jadose Chan Boon from St. Mary’s College came second while Pata Mate from Faleata College came third.
Host of the English Speech Competition, Senerita Fuiava, told the Samoa Observer that this year, they wanted to test the student’s knowledge and how fast they could think.
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“Last year’s topics were given out to the students so that they would have a lot of time to write their speeches. However this year, we wanted to make it different,” she said.
“We give out the topics here and we leave them for 15 minutes to get something in their heads about the topic and then they (students) speak on the spot.
Ms Fuiava said that the whole idea of that is to prepare the senior students for universities and real life experiences.
“Students should develop their thinking ability and then be able to deliver their thoughts quickly on the topics that they are given”, she said.
As for the standards achieved, Ms Fuiava said that all the students did really well.
“It shows that the students are really good and they also came up with some logical information about their topic.”
“In the end every student enjoyed the competition and most of them said that this idea really helped them and it encouraged them to think fast and prepare them for university level.”
The competition is an annual programme which is hosted at different schools.
This year, Pesega College hosted the competition.
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