Brief summary of activity
This is a warm up exercise before presenting a radio show. It can be used as a break after the theoretical part.
Aim of the activity
Improve pronunciation.
Expected Outcomes
Better enunciation.
Additional information for Trainers
Exercise by Dyckhoff / Westerhausen
Experience and skills required
No specific skills required.
Infrastructure, setting, resources
No specific skills required.
Length
15 min.
Material
A bunch of sentences.
How the activity should take place
The participants use their own mouth to train the way they pronounce words. They chose different sentences and speak them out loud.
Examples:
“Good morning, you are talking to mister/miss XY”, “Three witches watch three swatch watches. Which witch watch which swatch watch?”, etc.
First you practise a sentence, then you speak it out by using this variations:
- tongue on the left, back tooth on the top
- tongue on the right remotest back tooth on the top
- tongue on the left remotest back tooth on the bottom
- tongue on the right remotest back tooth on bottom
- tongue on the roof of the mouth near your front teeth
- tongue upright to the roof of the mouth
- tongue up, rolled up to the back of the roof of the mouth
- tongue between front teeth and gum
- protrude the tongue after this variations say out loud the sentence again.
Do you feel any differences?
Recommended max. number of participants and trainees to trainers ratio
Max. 12
Variations
You can record the sentences before and after the variations
Tips for Trainers
Use tongue twisters for this exercise.
Requirements for participants
Every target group.
Analysis and evaluation
The recordings show the differences.
Scheduling
Do this exercise as a warm up before presenting on the radio. It’s also a good exercise for having a break.