March Lesson Developing Oral Communication Skills

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1. Articulation

2. Speechwriting

3. Delivery

3.1 Managing Stage Fright

3.2 Modes of Delivery3.2.1 Reading a script

3.2.2 Reciting from memory

3.2.3 Extemporaneous speaking

3.2.4 Impromptu speaking3.3 Other skills

3.3.1 Emceeing

3.3.2 Presentation skills


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At a hotel somewhere in Asia. The call wasrecorded and later published in the FarEastern Economic Review. Here goes....

Room Service (RS): Morny. Ruin sorbees.Guest (G):Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service

RS: Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor

sunteen??G: Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs


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RS: Ow July den?

G: What??

RS: Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?G : Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry,

scrambled please.

RS: Ow July dee baychem...crease?G: Crisp will be fine.

RS : Hokay. An San tos?

G: What?

RS: San tos. July San tos?


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G: I don't think so

RS: No? Judo one toes??

G: I feel really bad about this, but I don't knowwhat 'judo one toes' means.

S: Toes! Toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow

bow english mopping we bother?

G: English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an english muffin will be

fine.

RS: We bother?

G: No...just put the bother on the side.RS: Wad?

G: I mean butter...just put it on the side.


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S: Copy?

G: Sorry?

RS: Copy...tea...mill?

G: Yes. Coffee please, and that's all.

RS: One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle

ache, crease baychem, tossy singlishmopping

we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??

G: Whatever you say

RS: Tendjewberrymud

G: You're welcome.


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Refers to the particular way by which the

sounds of a language are commonlyproduced in actual speech. For vowel sounds, it is important to know the:

Part of the tongue raised highest

Shape of the lips Position of the tongue

For consonant sounds, it is essential to know the: Articulators

Point of articulation

Manner of articulation


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Consonant sounds*

Exercises:

1. Learning to speak in IPA2. Tongue Twisters

3. Phonetic Foolishness


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vest west vest best

veil wail groove grew

vine wine roving rowing

Viper wiper west rest

vast fast wine Rhine

very berry vine fine


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vest navel west wood

vine drive once wagon

vivid several worry narrow

verb arrive few were

vote carve twelve twine


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Listen to the following words and repeat

Thursday without teeth think bathroom path

third nothing method

throw breathless booth

Thelma mythology wrath


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Read the following word pairs, be careful tomake the distinction between the two sounds.

three free thin sin

Thor soar pass path

both boat fought thought

tore Thor moth moss

frilled thrilled three free


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She sells seashells by the sea shore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells.

So if she sells shells on the seashore,

Im sure she sells seashore shells.


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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked,

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

Wheres the peck of pickled pepper that PeterPiper picked?


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If you pronounced HEAD, DEAD and BEAD

Youll hear the last word rhymes with DEED

And in this poem you will find

many items of this kind.

For instance:


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DEAR and FEAR and HEAR but BEAR

GEAR and TEAR but WEAR and TEAR

YEAST and LEAST and PLEASED but PLEASANT

BEAST and BREAST and PLEASE but PEASANT

MEAT and PEAT but SWEAT and GREAT

The last word rhymes with FREIGHT and WEIGHT


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Quite different again is HEIGHT

Which sounds like BITE, INDICT and LIGHT

The next line should be read with care:

The PRAYING PRAYER SAYS his PRAYER.

BEAN and LEAN and MEAN but MEANT,

Note G in GET, in GEM and GENT.


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VICE but CREVICE ADVICE DEVICE,

LICE but MALICE POLICE CONCISE.

We say DREAMT but also DREAMED,

The latter rhyming with ESTEEMED.

CREW and BLEW and NEW but SEW,


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COW and ROW but SOW and ROW

MEASLES does not sound like MEASURE

The same applies to TREASON and TREASURE

BRAID and MAID and LAID but SAID,

TREAT but THREAT and THREAD and TREAD


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A prison is often called JAIL,

Which word is also written as GAOL

Now note the difference with GOAL,

Which rhymes with FOAL, and DOLE and ROLL


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First say DANGER then ANGER,

Mind the latter rhymes with CLANGOR

COUNT but COUNTRY, SOUTHERN but SOUTH;

DISGUISE but BRUISE, YOUTH but MOUTH.

AUNT is not like VAUNT and TAUNT,


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BROOK but BROOCH and BROOD but BLOOD;

HOOD but MOOD and FOOD but FLOOD;

MINT but PINT and CORK but WORK;

DULL and GULL and HULL but FULL

OUR but FLOUR but TOUR and POUR


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We say BONE and LONE but GONE.

Pronounce your choice like DON or DAWN.

TONE and STONE and THRONE but DONE;

PHONE and HONE and SCONE but NONE.

Now, reader, always bear in mind


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The difference between WIND and WIND,

The latter rhymes with RIND and KIND

Can you pronounce without mistakes - -


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MacLEOD-QUAY- RACHEL-ACHE

PETAL-PENAL-WANT-PANT-SLANT:

VAN-FAN-RABBLES- GRAND andGRANT?

I dont blame you if you cant!


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In long words, unstressed vowels evendisappear,

phenomenon called elision, also known asdeletion.

Often, these vowels are associated withconsonants

which can become syllabic. Note the following

examples:


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The phonetic effect of liaison is to make theconnections such that the end sound of oneword actually becomes integrated into thesound of the succeeding word. If a word

ends in a consonant and is followed by aword beginning with a vowel, the finalconsonant of the first word becomes thereleasing consonant of the next word. Note

these examples:


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Its an apple. May I ask?

Come in. Did you see her?

I give up. Where is the office?

She loves him. He likes her.

Meet him. I always tie it.


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Prosody refers to the overall sound pattern youmake for phrases and sentences. As youproduce the sequence of consonants and

vowel of the words you are putting together,

you also overlay a sound contour on thesequence. Without this, your speech willsound like that of the robots or talkingcomputers in old movie-speaking in a

monotone, completely expressionless.


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Rhythm is the repeating beat of what we say.The beats that make up the rhythm of asentence are called stresses. Stress issometimes called accent.

English has four stresses:

[/] - primary ; very strong and very long

[^] - secondary; strong and long

[\] - tertiary; weak and short No mark- weak; very weak and short


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1. How are you?

2. Youre so nice

3. I dontknow.

4. I have the answer.

5. Do you know the answer?

6. Thats a new phone, isnt it?

7. Pleased to meet you.

8. Thats a good school.9. I learned a lot!

10. Excuse me!


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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace.I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.I love thee with a passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death.


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