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Toastmasters Timer Guide

As a Timer, the role is to track and display the time speakers have used during their speeches and evaluations using green, yellow, and red cards. The Timer will record the time used for table topics speeches (up to 2 minutes), prepared speeches (usually 7 minutes), table topics evaluations (up to 6 minutes), and prepared speech evaluations (up to 3 minutes). At the end of the meeting, the Timer will report the time each speaker used and provide feedback if they went over or under the suggested time limits. The Timer aims to keep speakers aware of their time and help the meeting run efficiently.

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Toastmasters Timer Guide

As a Timer, the role is to track and display the time speakers have used during their speeches and evaluations using green, yellow, and red cards. The Timer will record the time used for table topics speeches (up to 2 minutes), prepared speeches (usually 7 minutes), table topics evaluations (up to 6 minutes), and prepared speech evaluations (up to 3 minutes). At the end of the meeting, the Timer will report the time each speaker used and provide feedback if they went over or under the suggested time limits. The Timer aims to keep speakers aware of their time and help the meeting run efficiently.

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TIMER

Introduce Your Role


As a Timer, my role is to remind speakers on how much time they spent on their speech and how
much time they have before they should finish their speech.
I will turn on the Green card when the speech is long enough according to their project, usually
1.5 mins for table topics and 6 mins for prepared speech. Yellow card will raise when they should
be aware of their time is up soon and Red card when the suggested time is finished. For Table
Topics, you speak no more than 2 mins and for prepared speech, you speak no more than 7 mins.
For other roles, the length of your speech is already mentioned in the agenda.
At the end of the meeting, I will present my report for everyone. For now, please enjoy the
meeting! Back to you Toastmasters of the Evening!

During the meeting you will need to record the time for the following roles and giving colour
display, they are:
1) Table Topics (2 minutes, 1=G, 1.5=Y, 2=R)
2) Prepared Speech (usually 7 minutes, refer to speech manuals, 5=G, 6=Y, 7=R)
3) Table Topics Evaluations (6 minutes, 4=G, 5=Y, 6=R)
4) Prepared Speech Evaluations (3 minutes, 2=G, 2.5=Y, 3=R)

Reporting
I now announce the time used by each speaker.
For Table Topics (2 mins), two minutes is the maximum time allowed for each speaker. Cecilia is
one minute and twenty seconds, Derek is two minutes and fifty seconds, Jacky is One Minute
and five seconds.
Feedbacks: Seems like Derek could speak shorter while Jacky should speak at least one minute
and thirty seconds
For Prepared Speech (7 mins), Agnes is six minutes and twenty seconds for her seven-minute
speech, Josephine is six minutes and ten seconds for her seven-minute speech and Lilan is
fourteen minutes for her fifteen minutes advanced speech.
Feedbacks: Everyone did a great job in fulfilling their project requirements, well done!

Dont forget *Evaluators, it will be the same as above in reporting the time first and give
feedbacks if necessary for good use of time or overtime (expect over time for many evaluators).
*Evaluators: Speech for 3mins, Grammarian for 3mins, Ah Counter for 2mins, General
Evaluator for 10 mins.

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