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Teaching Chapters 5–8: Presenting Your Speech
Chapter 5: Vocal Delivery
Key Concepts
5-1 Demonstrate an ability to use the many elements of voice to communicate effectively.
5-2 Develop an understanding of standard pronunciation.
5-3 Reduce your own use of distracting vocal characteristics.
Suggested Activities and Exercises
Vocal Variety Exercise
This is a lively game designed to get students to make full use of their vocal expressiveness.
Facial and bodily expressions almost always enter into the picture as well. Each student draws a
Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. You’re telling me I have to give a speech tomorrow?
Today started out to be so perfect and then I ran into you.
She’s such a cute little baby with those curls. She’ll be a real doll when she grows up. What’s
her name? Fred? Oops.
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This trial is a mockery, a sham, a travesty. It’s a mockery of a travesty and two shams of a
mockery.
Buzz Word Challenge
Students often notice that filler words such as “um” and “uh” tend to be one of the things they
might want to use this activity as a competition for signing up for speaking order.
Speaking Rate
Preview the following 56-second commercial that was aired a number of years ago on TV.
Tests
Correct answers are marked with an asterisk. The places in the Compact Handbook where the
information was presented are shown in brackets.
True/False Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
7. Because speeches are louder than normal conversations, you can practice by _____.
A. Creating a mental image of propelling your voice to the far corners of the room
8. Which of the following can give an impression of being angry?
9. When you pronounce a word like “summer” as “thummer” or “this” as “dis” you have an
articulation problem known as _____.
10. Which of the following is not a strategy to ensure comprehension if you have an accent?
11. Vocal variety is important because _____.
Essay and Short Answer Questions
12. What are the steps to behavior modification? How can you apply this to modify distracting
vocal characteristics? [5d.4 Checklist]
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