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Improving your voice and speech

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Voice and Speech

Dramatic effect on professional and private life People are more impressed by how you speak than what V & S reveal a great deal about your personality - your feelings (confident, frightened, excited, depressed) - your age and sex - your personality (too fast lack of confidence too slow bored / indifferent) - geographical / social origin (accent) - mood - intelligence (clear, confident knowledge of subject stumbling / hesitant speech confusion)
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Posture and Voice

Poor posture

Poor image Good posture = Natural alignment of the body Different kinds of postures: - Adam - Padre - Politician

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Pitch and Intonation

Vary the pitch to make an interesting voice Practice changing pitch: I can make my voice go higher and higher. I can make my voice go lower and lower.

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Pitch and Intonation

Practice changing pitch:

I can do that. I can do that. I can do that. I can do that.

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Emphasis and Resonance

Change in emphasis stress put on a syllable Often affects the meaning of a sentence. Ex:

Would you put that on the table, please? Would you put that on the table, please?
Would you put that on the table, please? Would you put that on the table, please?
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Articulation
Changing Voice

into Speech

Pure Vowels:
From the back of the mouth:
/oo/ (hoot) /oo/ (hook) /aw/ (hawk ) /o/ (hot)

From the middle of the mouth:

/er/ (heared) /e/ (ahead) /u/ (hut) /aa/ (hard)

From the front of the mouth:

/ee/ (heed) /i/ (hid) /a/ (had)

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Articulation Cont
Diphthongs: (Two vowels)
(Formed by lips) /o/ - hoe /ow/ - how /oy/ boy (Formed by tongue) /ay/ - hay /I/ - high /air/ - hair /eer/ - here

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Articulation Cont
Triphthongs (Three parts): /ir/ - hire
/owr/ - hour

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Consonants
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/p/, /b/

Plant the pretty pink pansies in the pots. Practice promotes perfect pronunciation. Poor Peter panics when poodles are present. Banish the booming blast of that bassoon. Boring books belong below, in the basement. The big black bullo bellowed as Belinda blundered in to the bath.
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Consonants Cont..
/t/, /d/
Take those tiny terrors to the teacher. Tennis is too tiring and tough to tolerate. Tell Tom to tidy this terrible tip. Dont dare describe the dreadful defeat. David showed daring dedication and some decisiveness in doing the deed.
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Consonants Cont..

/k/, /g/ Can you count the currency of this country? Cream cakes require careful cooking. The grey goat grazed greedily. Gordon gave the gardener a gift of glorious green galoshes.

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Consonants Cont..

/ch/, /j/ The chancellor chose to check the church. Choose the cherries and the cheese. Chuck chewed the chocolate cheerily. January, June and July are generally jolly. The judge joked jovially. The budgie jumped onto Johns jumper.
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Consonants Cont..
/m/ Make mine a martini, Martin. Move those massive mounds of mud. Many men have mournful memories of the Magnificent Major. Martha and Mildred made merry in the moonlight.

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Consonants Cont..

/ ng /

The singing and shouting were ringing out. Bring those things off the wings into the hangar. The king tied the ring on with string.

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Consonants Cont..

/l/

Little lambs are leaping lightly. Laughing Larry Likes lollipops. Pull the full pail from the well. Light the lamp with the long spill.
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Consonants Cont..

/r/
Roderick Random ruefully rang the robber./ The red robot was ready when Robert rang. Roger, Richard, and Rodney recklessly raced Ralph and Rupert. Remember that ruthless writer who ran rings round her rivals.
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/ s / , / z /, / sh /
Six sailors saw the ship sailing out to sea. Thats so silly, said Sarah to Samantha. Miss Marples risked assassination when solving The case of the silver spur. The zebra zigzagged lazily through the zoo. Surely syrup, sweets, and sherbet cause sports.
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Consonants Cont..

/f/,/v/ Frank fought to free his friend. Youll find the fresh food in the fridge. Follow the frantic fat fellow through the forest Foliage. The vain vicar is verbose, but his vespers are very Vivid. Five frightened victims fled the vile vampire. He took an evil, vicious, and violent revenge.
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/ th / , / th /
Thirty thousand thrilled fans thronged the Theatre. Throw those things onto the path, or they will Think you a thief. Those theological theories are enthralling.

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Consonants Cont..

/y/

He yearned to sail the yellow yacht. Yolanda yielded her yogurt to the yokel. The Yankee youngster yelled for a yard of yarn. Yes, you have to use the yolks with the yams.
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Consonants Cont..

/w/ Use the words when, what, why, and where when Asking questions. The wily, white wolf was wandering in the wild Woods. You will wash my wet woollen windcheater Willingly, wont you?

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Consonants Cont..

/h/

Hard hats are handy headgear when handling heavy loads. Henry, Harold, and Hilary heartlessly hanged the horrible horseman. You just have to hope for happiness. He helped her hunt for her book of a hundred household hints.

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Tongue Twisters
She sells sea shells on the sea shore. Does she sell sea shells on the sea shore? If she sell sea shells on the sea shore, where are the sea shells she sell on the sea shore? Peter Piper picked a bit of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a bit of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a bit of pickled peppers, where is the bit of pickled pepper Peter picked?

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Tongue Twisters Cont.

Betty bought a bit of butter, but the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter. So, Betty bought a bit of better butter to better the bit of bitter butter Betty bought. The sick Sheiks sixth sheep is sick. A monks monkey mounted a monastery wall munching mashed melon and melted macaroni.
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