Elocution from Midwinter Tuition

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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 the office party. Wherever your debut will be, ensure good articulation by using these tips!

Try this new breathing technique!

September is a great time for a fresh start!

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 and those aiming for RP.

The list is included on the resources section of my website www.midwintertuition.co.uk

Thinking about how to say these words - using the last sound of the verb, rather than relying on memory!

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 simple!

Let's think about letters we do not pronounce in English

A child asked me this week - "Can I change my voice forever?" Here are some tips to help you towards this aim...

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 repeat the smooth transition from vowel to consonant. The list will be available on my website - www.midwintertuition.co.uk

Just a quick chat to get me back into podcasting!!! It's been soooooooo long!!!

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 one as the school run is impending!

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.

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 goes through some simple but effective warming up techniques. Use these exercises after the breathing exercises that you learned with the previous podcast.

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 and efficiently.

Top tips for using your voice on the telephone

A discussion of the differences and similarities between the two alveolar sounds. Go to www.midwintertuition.co.uk for more details 7shi64cf

Written by Julia Donaldson, this book is a beautiful read. Reading aloud is a fantastic way to improve your pronunciation and rhythm.

I use Voice Box exercises for this episode - fantastic tongue twisters designed to exercise to increase precision in rapid change. Some of them are quite a challenge!

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.

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 the lovely rhythm of the poem, to the rhyming and overall the beautiful sentiment. Read it yourself and try it out. Try learning it off by heart too to increase your off text confidence.

A gorgeous poem. Listen and then read it yourself, find the text at poemhunter.com

A little chat about how the letter 'e' can sound like an 'i'

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 bit of a pace and split over two podcasts.

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 bit of a pace and split over two podcasts.

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 makes me feel better! Listen to some tips gathered from my experience and some online research.

An examination of the nasal velar consonant sound generally represented by NG.

Let's think about falling diphthongs! 100,000 DOWNLOADS now! Wow! THANKYOU GUYS!!!!

This week, Pauline goes through some reasons why good Elocution is essential for Jobseekers.

Pauline and her 4 year old son Christopher talk about the letter 'H'.

We use Ed Miliband's speech at the Labour Party conference as our starting point, then discuss repetition in speeches followed by disfluencies in everyday conversation.

SUCH a tricky letter sound. Let's work through it together.

Arrrr! Avast me hearties! Let's speak some PIRATE today!

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.

Here I go through some ideas for ways in which you can improve the volume at which you project your voice.

Thankyou for listening to my podcast - now at 65k downloads and 50 episodes long. Today we look at 'air'.

A refresher for previous and current students and an introduction to how an Elocution lesson might work for newbies.

Practice the rise-fall-rise in hopes and wishes

Pauline reads the poem after examining the end rhyme sounds

Pauline demonstrates how and where to make the L sound, gives some example words and a training technique. It is all about tongue strength this week!

Pauline and her daughter Jennifer briefly explore linking words. We are both snotty and poorly so it's short today!

Today we examine the semi-vowel / consonant sound 'W'. We look at words then sentences that use the sound. Listen and repeat to practise the sound.

Today I talk through some examples of how to say 'Well done' or 'really?' type phrases. Listen through then listen with lots of pausing and repeating! Practice copying the intonation until your vocal pattern matches mine.

A simultaneous podcast / vodcast this week! I recorded the audio of my youtube channel video this week, where I examine the CH / DZ sound.

Together we can practice list making using intonation. I give some guidance regarding how to make a list then we examine how to show the items are equally important or related to each other.

A contentious sound - some people pronounce this in slightly different ways so be prepared to practice it and pronounce it differently to your peers!

A simple concept - the Greeting. Get the intonation right and make the best first impression possible. Listen and repeat.

Pauline uses four different resources to explain how to pronounce the two consonants so that they sound different.

In this episode Pauline gives some examples of commonly-used reassuring sentences, taken from Thompson's 'Intonation in Practice'. We look at where the rise and fall occur. Listen to Pauline and repeat slowly. Secondly Pauline gives some examples of how we contradict people, either by disagreeing or correcting them. The intonation pattern is different so listen carefully and repeat. Email for copies of PDFs, for more info or to book an Elocution lesson - info@midwintertuition.co.uk

A brief look at whether a plural should be an s or a z sound...