Year three in our public speaking class was harder in every way. Our teacher pushed us harder and harder and made us read more papers and listen to more items on the radio. We were all totally afraid that our impromptu subject would be something topical we hadn’t heard about. So we listened, read and discussed everything topical and a lot of things that weren’t… One impromptu speech lingers in my memory. The teacher gave our politician the subject! Christ is dead, Christ is risenâ€� The rest of us gasped but, and we then understood why he was a politician, when he said very simply,â€� Is he? I hadn’t heard but then the newspapers are on strike today.â€� It was true, they were. That’s what is called thinking on your feet!

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