As part of the program for the English Language
Campaign, we decided to organize an elocution
contest. The first thing we had to do was to send
out invitations to all the schools that we thought
might like to participate. We also arranged for
judges and ___1___
to get a member of the committee of the school
Parent-Teacher Association to donate a ___2___.
Everything went as scheduled. Surprisingly, for a
small town like ours, eight schools agreed to send
___3___. We
wrote back, giving them details of the time and
place of the competition, the points on which the
contestants would be ___4___,
and all the rules of the competition.
It was, in fact, much harder work than we
bargained ___5___.
We had to contact the judges a number of times as
none of them could give us an answer till much
nearer ___6___
date of the competition. Then, one day before the
competition, one judge telephoned to say he could
not serve as he had ___7___
chicken pox. Fortunately, our adviser managed to
contact an old school friend of hers who agreed to
step in. |