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Elocution from Midwinter Tuition
by Midwinter Tuition
Over 400,000 downloads!!! Midwinter Tuition's Pauline Midwinter shares her tips and hints on how to correctly produce vowel sounds & consonants when aiming for clear pronunciation. These are demonstrated in isolation, within words and finally sentences. Intonation is examined. Spelling variations are listed. This work and these podcasts can assist in reducing accents, slowing down speedy speech and help people learning English as a new or additional language.
Episodes
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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 repeat the smooth transition from vowel to consonant. The list will be available on my website - www.midwintertuition.co.uk
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HELLO and Tongue Exercises!
Just a quick chat to get me back into podcasting!!! It's been soooooooo long!!!
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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 one as the school run is impending!
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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.
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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 goes through some simple but effective warming up techniques. Use these exercises after the breathing exercises that you learned with the previous...
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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 and efficiently.
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Telephone Technique
Top tips for using your voice on the telephone
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T vs. L
A discussion of the differences and similarities between the two alveolar sounds. Go to www.midwintertuition.co.uk for more details 7shi64cf
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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.
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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 quite a challenge!
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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.
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"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 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…
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Poetry Reading - Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
A gorgeous poem. Listen and then read it yourself, find the text at poemhunter.com
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The Letter 'e' that sounds like 'i'
A little chat about how the letter 'e' can sound like an 'i'
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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 bit of a pace and split over two podcasts.
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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 bit of a pace and split over two podcasts.
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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 makes me feel better! Listen to some tips gathered from my experience and some online research.
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Elocution - Consonants - NG sound
An examination of the nasal velar consonant sound generally represented by NG.
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Ear Eer Ere! A Falling Diphthong
Let's think about falling diphthongs! 100,000 DOWNLOADS now! Wow! THANKYOU GUYS!!!!
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Elocution for Jobseekers
This week, Pauline goes through some reasons why good Elocution is essential for Jobseekers.
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The Consonant 'H'
Pauline and her 4 year old son Christopher talk about the letter 'H'.
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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 everyday conversation.
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The Letter 'R'
SUCH a tricky letter sound. Let's work through it together.
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TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY 2014
Arrrr! Avast me hearties! Let's speak some PIRATE today!
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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Elocution - A Mini Lesson
A refresher for previous and current students and an introduction to how an Elocution lesson might work for newbies.
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Intonation - Hopes and Wishes
Practice the rise-fall-rise in hopes and wishes
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Poetry Reading - Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Pauline reads the poem after examining the end rhyme sounds
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Lateral Consonant - L
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!
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Intonation - Linking Words
Pauline and her daughter Jennifer briefly explore linking words. We are both snotty and poorly so it's short today!
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Consonants - Semi-Vowel - W
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.
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Intonation - Congratulations / Compliments
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.
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Consonants - CH / DZ
A simultaneous podcast / vodcast this week! I recorded the audio of my youtube channel video this week, where I examine the CH / DZ sound.
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Intonation - Lists and a series of similar items
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.
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Vowels - Diphthong - eur / ewe / ur
A contentious sound - some people pronounce this in slightly different ways so be prepared to practice it and pronounce it differently to your peers!
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Intonation in Greetings
A simple concept - the Greeting. Get the intonation right and make the best first impression possible. Listen and repeat.
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Consonants - B and P
Pauline uses four different resources to explain how to pronounce the two consonants so that they sound different.
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Intonation - Reassurances and Contradictions
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...
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Elocution - S and Z in Plurals
A brief look at whether a plural should be an s or a z sound...
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Elocution - Intonation in Sentences
Using both Thompson's 'Intonation in Practice' and www.home-speech-home.com for a list of wh questions - we look at how the intonation of wh questions really, really, really does have a rule! That rare gem in the English language! For more information on intonation, for copies of the PDF I used…
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Elocution - Consonants - K and G
To avoid saying 'nothink' instead of 'nothing' listen to this podcast! We talk through actual production of both sounds then try some words and a rhyme or two. Then it is up to you to practice! This week I use the ACE Spelling Dictionary - which I bought second hand.
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Elocution - Intonation in Information
Using two different sources, we examine the fall in intonation when we give information in a sentence. Several examples are cited and repeated. Try repeating them after me and see how you get on. If you need the texts used, email me [email protected] or visit www.midwintertuition.co.uk
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Elocution - The Neutral Vowel Sound - Schwa!
This time we use Bell's Standard Elocutionist as our starting point - to examine the neutral sound of 'schwa'. This is most commonly found as the 'e' in 'the'. Then we look at other unstressed sounds using English Pronunciation in Use (Advanced).
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Elocution - Stress in Compound Nouns
We look to internet forums and a fantastic textbook "English Pronunciation in Use: Advanced" for some help with pronunciation of compound nouns - particularly 2 or 3 part nouns.
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Elocution - Poetry Reading-The Chaos of English!
"Dearest creature in creation, study English pronunciation." For the full text go to www.midwintertuition.co.uk or email [email protected] for a copy
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Consonants - T and D
Pauline demonstrates how to make and drill the T and the D. She looks at a few examples of past tense regular that use ed and which t/d/id sound it makes. She finished with her favourite rhyme that uses both sounds! Email [email protected] for more info or look at...
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Consonants - atonics and subtonics
This episode looks at the minimal difference between the production of certain consonants. If you want the list of consonants email me [email protected]
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Consonants - formed the voiced 'Z' sound
A tricky sound for many of my students - here we create the z sound and use it in some words and a couple of tongue twisters
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Over 400,000 downloads!!! Midwinter Tuition's Pauline Midwinter shares her tips and hints on how to correctly produce vowel sounds & consonants when aiming for clear pronunciation. These are demonstrated in isolation, within words and finally sentences. Intonation is examined. Spelling variations are listed. This work and these podcasts can assist in reducing accents, slowing down speedy speech and help people learning English as a new or additional language.
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