Elocution from Midwinter Tuition
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Elocution from Midwinter Tuition
Elocution Tips and Hints towards a clearer speaking voice
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Elocution For Singers
This time of year we're gearing up for concerts of all sorts, or maybe just singing round the Christmas Tree, or in church, or by the photocopier for...
FREE Udemy course available!
Go to my website www.midwintertuition.co.uk and check out the shop page for my free Tongue Twisters course! There's also a course aimed at families an...
Top 10 Tips for Lowering the Pitch of your Voice
The list is included on the resources section of my website www.midwintertuition.co.uk
-ed endings of regular past tense words
Thinking about how to say these words - using the last sound of the verb, rather than relying on memory!
KIT episode
This is an episode to help people Keep In Touch with me - I just briefly go through some ways you can contact me if you need any help. Short and simpl...
How can I change my voice forever?
A child asked me this week - "Can I change my voice forever?" Here are some tips to help you towards this aim...
Contractions - no, I'm not in labour!
Have a listen to some examples of contracted words (such as I'm, he's, she'd etc) and listen to some of the common mistakes people make. Listen and re...
HELLO and Tongue Exercises!
Just a quick chat to get me back into podcasting!!! It's been soooooooo long!!!
Featuring the Midwinter Offspring - Word endings.
Jennifer and Christopher sing a song they've learned at school, which leads on to me talking about sharpening up those word endings. A short and sweet...
New Year, New Voice, 2016 - Vowel Sounds
Let's stretch out the vowel sounds that we should begin our vocal training with. A simple set of sounds that we use all the time.
New Year, New Voice, 2016 - Warm Up
Listen to Pauline warming up her voice on a freezing cold January morning. Hear the difference between the start of the podcast and the end as she goe...
New Year, New Voice, 2016
Breathing. The power behind the voice. Let us begin from the very beginning and remember how to breathe, why we breathe, use our breath effectively an...
T vs. L
A discussion of the differences and similarities between the two alveolar sounds. Go to www.midwintertuition.co.uk for more details
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The Snail and the Whale
Written by Julia Donaldson, this book is a beautiful read. Reading aloud is a fantastic way to improve your pronunciation and rhythm.
Muscular Flexibility
I use Voice Box exercises for this episode - fantastic tongue twisters designed to exercise to increase precision in rapid change. Some of them are qu...
Consonant / Vowel - W Plus Short OO
Let's try some words that begin with w followed by the short oo sound. It's very tricky! Take it slow. Use a mirror if needed.
"If" by Rudyard Kipling.
Amateur Alert: I thought I had started recording, so apologies if the podcast leaps straight into the poem! I did do a lovely introduction! Listen to...
Poetry Reading - Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
A gorgeous poem. Listen and then read it yourself, find the text at poemhunter.com
The Letter 'e' that sounds like 'i'
A little chat about how the letter 'e' can sound like an 'i'
Elocution Lesson 1 Resources (Part 2)
A revision aid for current students although listeners can hear the intonation and pronunciation of many common sounds, words and phrases. It's at a b...
Elocution Lesson 1 Resources (Part 1)
A revision aid for current students although listeners can hear the intonation and pronunciation of many common sounds, words and phrases. It's at a b...
Vocal Health Tips in the Winter Weather
I forgot to say - I wear a scarf ALL the time in the winter to try and keep my vocal folds nice and warm. I'm not sure how scientific that is but it m...
Elocution - Consonants - NG sound
An examination of the nasal velar consonant sound generally represented by NG.
Ear Eer Ere! A Falling Diphthong
Let's think about falling diphthongs!
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Elocution for Jobseekers
This week, Pauline goes through some reasons why good Elocution is essential for Jobseekers.
Repetition and Disfluencies in Public Speaking
We use Ed Miliband's speech at the Labour Party conference as our starting point, then discuss repetition in speeches followed by disfluencies in ever...
The 'er' Sound
Here we briefly examine the sound made by er/ir/ear/ur in words like 'bird'. See my website www.midwintertuition.co.uk for a list of words.
Vocal Projection - a Few Tips!
Here I go through some ideas for ways in which you can improve the volume at which you project your voice.
EPISODE 50! Diphthong 'air' 65k DOWNLOADS! THANKYOU!
Thankyou for listening to my podcast - now at 65k downloads and 50 episodes long. Today we look at 'air'.
Elocution - A Mini Lesson
A refresher for previous and current students and an introduction to how an Elocution lesson might work for newbies.
Poetry Reading - Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Pauline reads the poem after examining the end rhyme sounds