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

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

2. Speeches Persuasive 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…

3. Word and Phrase Emphasis Read each sentence below to emphasize the desired meaning: • I already told you (Frustration) • I like you (Friendship) • Come back here (Anger) • You did that (Surprise) • I thought he would win (Irony) Read the following sentence several times: • Mary is my friend (Agreement) • Mary is my friend (Pleasant surprise) • Mary is my friend (Shock or surprise) • Mary is my friend (Sarcasm)

4. Articulation Repeat each of the following tongue twisters 3 times in a row: • Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings • Three free throws • Unique New York • Black bug’s blood • Flash message

5. Commonly Mispronounced Words Arctic Artic Formerly Formally Library Libary Nuclear Nucular Suppose Susposse Picture Piture

6. Similarities Articulate 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

7. 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:

8. Say each of the following sentences on a single breath: Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.--Mark Twain. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.--Douglas Adams All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others--George Orwell 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.

9. 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 ~ Vocal Warm ups and explanations

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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 Calling out ~ ie)cave, forest Stage Whisper ~ ie) bank vault or church Argument ~ ie) money, in-laws

13. 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.

14. 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?

15. Personal Reflection • What choices did I make that worked for my speech? • What choices will I make next time to improve myself? • One thing I’ve learned from watching my classmates is..