Make a Game of Pronouncing Words

Presentation Idea


One of the best ways to make your presentation memorable and easy to listen to is to make sure that your speak clearly.

Practice this skills regularly whenever you are alone and have a few minutes; you can ever do it in your vehicle while waiting for an appointment or another person if have have tinted windows or a portable recorder that you can read into if you don't want passerby to think your're a bit dafter talking to yourself.

The trick is to selected a piece of reading that you are either very familiar with or find very interesting (even something that you are trying to commit to memory) and practice reading it out loud over and over with a different, different pausing, different volume, different tone, and different syllable stress each time.


My father, a successful playwrite and actor before the Second World War  who gave a command performance before King George the VI used this technique before a performance all the time according to my mother.

I try to do this  with presentations or readings and found that it does help  to make your voice much more flexible and clearer --able to create word pictures that inform and move your listeners

If you don't already do this why not try it?  I'm sure you will find that it really helps you in your goal towards constant voice improvement.

An Idea to Play With


Out here in what they call the Inside Passage, which separates mainland British Columbia from outer islands there used to be a nortorious rock mariners  called  Race Rock  which created such vicious whirpools and currents during changing of tides.

Until engineers finally planted explosive at the base of the rock and blew it   created those huge, powerful whirlpools that sucked in or damaged many vessels of all sizes.  The only way to  safely navigate around this rock was to pass when the tide was not running as captains also had to navigate around other underwater hazards in the waterway as well as the whirlpool itself.  This of course required either the help of a ship pilot who was familiar with when it was safe to pass or to follow tidal table and waterway charts yourself.   Very carefully! It could be done

exercise:  Play with this idea and see how you can use it to illustrate  a point in a presentation. Could these charts be compared to advice or warnings that could save businessmen from shipwreck in business or other situations?     Can you think of any other ways this "Race Rock" illustration could be used to illustrate material?  What could the tidal charts be compared to? What about the ship pilots?