VOICE EXERCISE FOR CONSONANTS

VOICE  EXERCISE  FOR  CONSONANTS

How lively , spirited and clear your speech is depends on how your vocal organs produce the sound of words .

Here are two exercises to help you improve the articulation of consonants . Use your tongue energetically. Be slow and careful when you begin. As you grow comfortable, you may increase the speed of reading .

Exercise  Number  1

Betty bought a bit of butter .

The bit of butter Betty bought was bitter .

So Betty bought a bit of better butter .

Exercise Number 2

Get out of that at once.

In and out and around about.

That is not at all what I want you to do.

Wait a minute or two till it is time to go.

It is just a bit at a time that counts.

What rain! Just hear how it falls Pitter-patter, clitter-clatter on the sooty window-pane .

He sent us a chest of tip-top tea , tied up tight with an old bit of string .