Description
Articulation exercises relax the mouth and is good practice for an actor's voice and characterization.
Materials
Space Required
Standard RoomInstructions
Say each of the following articulation exercises several times. Listen to the way the letters sound. Take turns with your classmates so that you can hear each other because sometimes we can learn best by listening to others.
1) Which witch watched which watch?
2) A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bleed blue black blood.
3) Unique New York
4) When does the wrist watch strap shop shut?
5) Topeka, topeka, topeka. Bodega, bodega, bodega. Topeka, topeka, topeka. Bodega, bodega, bodega. Topeka, bodega, topeka, bodega, topeka, bodega, topeka. Bodega, topeka, bodega, topeka, bodega, topeka, bodega.
6) She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
7) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
8) A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
9) Few free fruit flies fly from flames.
10) Lesser leather never weathered lesser wetter weather.
11) Rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
12) Theopholus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, successfully sifted some thistles.
Adaptations
Fun and Effective Variations:
- Say the tongue twisters with a marshmallow on your tongue, but be careful not to choke!
- Try saying them while holding the tip of your tongue.
- Try putting the inflection in different places throughout the tongue twister to change the meaning.
- Try using a British accent or southern accent.
- How many times can you say each one in one breath?
- Practice doing a stage whisper using the twisters.
- Can you say them using a musical scale? Start low and go up, then back down the scale for each one.
- Say each one backwards.
Try writing tongue twisters of your own for each of the sounds D, H, X (or cks) and M. Remember, a tongue twister is easier to remember if it makes sense, even if it is silly sense. You can put the key sound anywhere in the word, but it will have more of an affect if it is at the beginning.