Procedures
What is an unmoderated caucus
A phase without speeches, essentially you get up and talk to your fellow delegates about solutions
What do you say at the end of each speech
“Thank you” or “I yield the rest of my time to the chair.”
what is a delegation/delegate?
The representative of a country
In what scenario would you use personal pronouns in a speech
NEVER
Where do you look when you’re speaking?
At your fellow delegates
How do you motion for a moderated caucus?
“Motion for a ___ moderated caucuses can on ___.”
What should you say at the beginning of your speech?
Example: “Thank you most honour chair, and fellow delegates.”
What is a placard and what does it do?
It’s a card with your country’s name on it. You can raise it to ask the chair something, vote, or join a speaker’s list
During your speech you accidentally say “hotdooger” instead of “hotdog” what do you do?
Continue like nothing happened
Who are you in model un?
You’re the representative of your country and must act on behalf of it
When does a secondary speech occur?
If all motions fail and after a the primary speakers list.
What is a secondary speech?
A speech where your goal is to establish what your country wants to achieve
What does the chair mean when they say “Due to the chair’s discretion, this motion passes.”
Translation “This motion passes without voting.”
You’re in an unmoderated caucus, and you realized that your country’s values don’t really align with what the bloc wants to do. What do you do?
Join another bloc.
Scenario: You want to ask a chair a question about whether they would accept a motion for a moderated caucus. What do you say?
“Point of Inquiry…”
After how many moderated caucuses can you motion for an unmoderated caucus
Usually 2, but it’s up to the chair
what makes Primary speeches unique to the others?
The point of primary is to convince delegates to vote for a topic
What does it mean when the chair says: “Decorum delegates.”
Translation: “Please be quiet and pay attention.”
During your speech, you hear the chair tap their gavel once, what do you do and how much speaking time do you have left?
Continue your speech, you have 10 seconds left
What are the 3 most important qualities a delegate can have?
Confidence, improvisation, and volume
In what part of a conference do you work on your working paper?
Unmoderated caucuses
Name the 5 main types of hooks
Question, statement, quote, analogy, statistic
Define the following:
- The Chair/Dias
- Repertoire
- The Chair/ Dias: The people managing the committee and pick the delegates who get to speak. They're like the referees.
- The Repertoire: Manages the timer and the speaker list, you could also think of them as a judge
You get selected to speak in a moderated caucus on the topic of something you don’t know much about, and earlier, the chair recommended you to do a hook in your next speech. What do you do?
Make it up! For example you could pretend that 45% of the people in your country are below the poverty line
You’re in a committee and in someone’s speech they directly called you a poopoo head. What do you do?
A) Raise your placard and say “Point of Inquiry”
B) Send them an angry note
C) Raise your placard and say “Right of reply.”
D) Stand up and yell at them
C) Raise your placards and say “Right of reply