Your voice plays an integral

role in the way that you communicate, express your emotions, and establish your character. 

You need to keep your voice fit and vibrant, watch your enunciation, learn your natural pitch, and project from that pitch.

Sharing your voice with an audience through projection, articulation, annunciation and pauses

SpeechesPersuasive public speakers blend the right

arguments with a clear and confident delivery. They are both entertaining and informative.

You learn public speaking just as you would any new skill--identify your strengths and weaknesses, then work on improving your presentations through practice.

Speakers use many techniques to develop their skills. Here are some of them…

Word and Phrase EmphasisRead each sentence below to emphasize the desired meaning:

1. I already told you (Frustration)

2. I like you (Friendship)

3. Come back here (Anger)

4. You did that (Surprise)

5. I thought he would win (Irony)

Read the following sentence several times:

1. Mary is my friend (Agreement)

2. Mary is my friend (Pleasant surprise)

3. Mary is my friend (Shock or surprise)

4. Mary is my friend (Sarcasm)

Articulation

Repeat each of the following tongue twisters 3 times in a row:

1. Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings

2. Three free throws

3. Unique New York

4. Black bug’s blood

5. Flash message

Commonly Mispronounced Words

Arctic Artic

Formerly Formally

Library Libary

Nuclear Nucular

Suppose Susposse

Picture Piture

SimilaritiesArticulate each pair of similarly sounding words. Make sure that a listener can hear the difference clearly:

Ball-bald

Bog-bug

Bus-boss

Climb-crime

Dad-dab

Late-lake

Look-luck

Made-mad

Speech Anxiety

Public speaking is one of people’s primary fears. You may feel dizzy, have a dry mouth, sweaty palms, a racing pulse, or even begin to shake. These are normal reaction, and can be reduced.

Breath control enables you to speak forcefully and clearly. Before delivering your speech, inhale deeply through your nose for a count of three, hold your breath for a count of three, exhale through your mouth for a count of three. Repeat 2 more times. This deep breathing exercise will help you relax.

You will also need breath control during your speech. Try the following exercise:

Say each of the following sentences on a single breath:

1. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.--Mark Twain.

2. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.--Douglas Adams

3. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others--George Orwell

4. All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident--Will Rogers.

Vocal Warm ups and explanations

Lip trill, tongue trill, humming ~ moves respiratory muscles into full action rapidly

Octave glides, up and down /I/ or /u/ ~ maximum stretch to vocal folds

Staccato’s ~ elicit clean and rapid voice onset.

Laughing warm up ~ releases vocal fold tension

Follow the routine on the next slide ~

Warm Up Face ~ scrunch and yawn. Posture – release, stretch, ya haaa move arm, Breath –in slow, out fast, in fast-out slow Start Your Engines ~ Sing a note – focus iit by

bringing fingers to center Hisses ~ quarter note hisses, ha ha has faster - faster – stop Scale ~ N sounds (forward and bright) Scale~ all vowels Rhythm – say the words clap for pauses, clean Exaggerate ~ Articulated consonants and

elongate vowels

Tongue Twisters Competition To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock, in a pestilential

prison with a life long lock, awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.

Through darkest mists with stoutest boasts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

She sells seashells by the seashore. You can take a scrub and a rub-and-a-dub in a two foot tank

of tin, you can stand and look at the swirling brook and think about jumping in, you can chatter and shake by the cold black lake, but the kind of bath for me, is to take a dip from the side of a ship in the trough of the rolling sea.

Speech and Voice activities

Speak at the same time One person leads Pass focus Listen and respond Expert monologue game – we

pick the group we are and the subject you talk about

Dubbing

Don’t Go ~ say the words as if~ beg, alarm, warn, surprise, seduce, sly, timid, mysterious, sad, grateful, angry, fearful, disappointed, frustrated, teasing, excited, forgiving, threatening, comical, scornful, menacing, or incredulous

Answer Yeah, yeah, yeah in any manner to exit scene.

Play a scene using vocalization constraints

1. Calling out ~ ie)cave, forest

2. Stage Whisper ~ ie) bank vault or church

3. Argument ~ ie) money, in-laws

Finishing Touches ~ Learning your lines

One tip. Don’t memorize each word, learn each idea. Know what reaction you want to get out of the audience and then manipulate for emotion using voice and gesture.

RUBRIC

Do they speak clearly and make eye contact? Does the speech sound memorized (cue cards are OK)? Is the actors voice confident, clear, loud and committed to the mood? Does the piece show appropriate

expression and rhythm?

Personal Reflection

1. What choices did I make that worked for my speech?

2. What choices will I make next time to improve myself?

3. One thing I’ve learned from watching my classmates is..