Elocution From Midwinter Tuition

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 too to increase your off text confidence.

A gorgeous poem. Listen and then read it yourself, find the text at poemhunter.com

A little chat about how the letter 'e' can sound like an 'i'

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.

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.

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.

An examination of the nasal velar consonant sound generally represented by NG.

Let's think about falling diphthongs! 100,000 DOWNLOADS now! Wow! THANKYOU GUYS!!!!

This week, Pauline goes through some reasons why good Elocution is essential for Jobseekers.

Pauline and her 4 year old son Christopher talk about the letter 'H'.

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.

SUCH a tricky letter sound. Let's work through it together.

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.

Here I go through some ideas for ways in which you can improve the volume at which you project your voice.

Thankyou for listening to my podcast - now at 65k downloads and 50 episodes long. Today we look at 'air'.

A refresher for previous and current students and an introduction to how an Elocution lesson might work for newbies.

Practice the rise-fall-rise in hopes and wishes

Pauline reads the poem after examining the end rhyme sounds

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!

Pauline and her daughter Jennifer briefly explore linking words. We are both snotty and poorly so it's short today!