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Do Now: How do you pronounce the following words?. Iraq Newspaper Semi Often. i-RAHK or i-RAK N(Y)OOZ-pay- pur SEM- ee AWF- i n or AHF- i n. Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking?. Pronunciation —the correctness of sounds and accents
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Do Now: How do you pronounce the following words? • Iraq • Newspaper • Semi • Often • i-RAHK or i-RAK • N(Y)OOZ-pay-pur • SEM-ee • AWF-in or AHF-in
Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking? • Pronunciation—the correctness of sounds and accents • Ex: Refuse verses Refuse • Consult a dictionary! • The Big Book Of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide For The Careful Speaker by Charles Harrington Elster.
Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking? • Obscure • Irony • Congratulations • Chamois • uhb-SKYUUR • EYE-ruh-nee • kun-GRACH-uh-LAY-shinz • SHAM-ee
Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking? • Articulation—the shaping of the sounds by the speaker’s lips, teeth, tongue, and hard and soft palates. • Dialect, or accent, is basically a matter of the way separate sounds are formed and, far more important, the use of a melodic or rhythmic flow as the sounds go together.
Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking? • anything, everything, nothing, something • I am going • Let me • matter, flutter, butter • Ask • How did you...?, Where did you...?, What did you...? • The 'ing' is replaced with 'ink‘ • I gotta • Lemme • 'budder’ • Ax • 'Howdja get here?', 'Wheredja come from?', 'Whadja do last night?'
Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking? • Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn • Four furious friends fought for the phone • How was Harry hastened so hurriedly from the hunt? • Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep. • My cutlery cuts keenly and cleanly. • Lucy lingered, looking longingly for her lost lap-dog. • Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking? • Two toads, totally tired, trying to trot to Tewkesbury. • Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently. • Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked? • Red leather, yellow leather
Aim: How are pronunciation and articulation essential to public speaking? • All this attention to vocal technique belongs in rehearsal periods; in performance you should concentrate on the literature you are sharing, not on your articulation.