Meagans Speech Therapy Sessions For High School Seniors

Meagan’s Speech Therapy Sessions For High School Seniors

Speech Skills: Enunciation Clarity

* Enunciation is the act of pronouncing words. Make sure your enunciation is clear when ordering in a restaurant so you don’t get French flies instead of French fries. People with excellent enunciation are likely to end up with jobs in public speaking such as: * Broadcasters * Announcers * Actors * Teachers Enunciation

Clarity * Clarity means clearness. Clean water running down a mountain has clarity. So does a lovely singing voice: it's clear and pure. * To have good clarity it is important to: * unclench the jaw * open the mouth * give full attention to each sound

Slopp y Speec h

Say these words with me: * Going * Walking * Jogging

Mirrors are a great aid when you’re working on your enunciation

The Mirror Face Test * Waiting to hear back from the bank, is very nerve-wracking. * Before starting my homework, I was looking at Facebook. * There's more to learning than just reading and writing.

Any habit can be broken 1. Be aware of how you speak 2. Practice speaking well

Tongue Twisters: Sentences that repeat similar sound patters

Tongue Twister Activity 1. Success Seeds Success 2. Bigger business isn’t better business, but better business brings bigger rewards SET 1

3. Seventeen sales ships slithered slowly southward 4. Time takes a terrible toll on intentions 5. Feel free to follow that fellow

6. Don’t go deep into debt 7. Wanting won’t win; winning ways are active ways 8. Ensuring excellence isn’t always easy

SET 2 9. Rubber baby buggy bumpers 10. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 11. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy was he?

12. How much wood would a woodchuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? 13. She sells sea shells down by the sea shore 14. Susie’s sister sewed socks for soldiers

15. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought butter to make the bitter butter better 16. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish

SET 3 17. An ape hates grape cakes 18. A tutor who tooted the flute, tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot? ”

19. These thousand tricky tongue twister trip thrillingly off the tongue 20. Six thick thistle sticks. 21. Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks 22. Black bugs

23. Of all the smells I have smelt, I never smelt a smell that smelt like that smell smelt 24. The sixth sick Sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick

GREAT JOB!! Today we learned: 1. To focus on enunciation by practicing not to drop our G’s 2. Practiced clarity by speaking clearly with tongue twisters!

Homework - 10 minute “mirror sessions” every day till next week * say the dropping G’s exercise and tongue twisters out loud while watching yourself in the mirror (signed off by parent/guardian - You will immediately notice that this practice will carry over into your “normal” speaking life, causing you to be more conscious of the way you speak )

Thank you for your time and participation! Have a great rest of your week!

References • https: //www. vocabulary. com/diction ary/enunciation • https: //www. thebalance. com/speakfor-success-lesson-1 -enunciation 2948543 • http: //www. skillsyouneed. com/ips/eff ective-speaking. html • https: //www. vocabulary. com/diction ary/clarity