Games and exercises to develop a child’s diction at home. The most effective exercises for diction Exercise with a lip plug
Gives you 5 steps to improve your speech quality. If you decide to work on your speech, you should fight the desire to put it off until later: only frequent practice will give results.
Step 1: train the organs of articulation
These exercises were developed by speech therapists and are aimed at correcting children's pronunciation deficiencies. But they act no worse on adults.
The organs of articulation include lips, teeth, jaws, palate, alveoli, and tongue. Repetition of exercises: for children - 5 times, for adults - 25-30 times.
- open our mouth as wide as possible, straining the muscles of the face and neck, hold it and close it on the count of “5”;
- fold your closed lips into a tube, stretch them forward, hold for 5-10 seconds;
- game of “snake”: quickly show and hide your tongue, smiling;
- show your tongue, “pull” it through closed teeth back and forth, massaging it;
- alternately inflate your cheeks and tap them with your fingertips, massaging;
- “explore” the mouth with the tongue: move the tip along the palate, cheeks, teeth;
- swing: open your mouth wide, smiling, on the count of “one” - lower your tongue to the lower jaw, “two” - lift it to the upper teeth;
- hold your tongue protruding on your lower jaw motionless and relaxed for at least 5-10 seconds.
Step 2: advanced articulation training
All classes are performed at home and are suitable for adults and children. If your child already knows how to read or recite poetry, you can adapt all the activities for him.
Reading aloud to improve speech clarity is great, but for better practice of sounds, it is recommended to use a regular stopper. We bite it with our teeth (no need to force it, just hold it) and read the book out loud, sing our favorite song, repeat after the audiobook announcer. The lips should be tense. It is enough to practice 10-20 minutes a day.
We read a poem or book out loud, trying to pronounce all sounds clearly, and perform physical exercises. Running, squats, swinging legs and arms are suitable. It is important that your breathing begins to falter. Then it will become harder to pronounce familiar words, and additional effort will be required. You can't imagine better gymnastics.
This exercise is only for adults, as it is not recommended for children to lick small objects. You need simple, smooth, clean stones. These can be bought or found in the river and boiled.
We put a few stones in our mouths to make it difficult to speak, and we begin to read and talk to ourselves. This activity is great for improving your pronunciation clarity.
Pronunciation of strange nonsense gives excellent results. “BDTTTRZ, VVGGRRRRHS, MRTTSEPN” - it is important to pronounce the middle of these words well and not swallow the ending.
This exercise allows you to quickly improve your diction. For a child, we can also advise you to put clean mother’s beads on a thread around your neck, take the lower end of them into your mouth and move the beads with your tongue, first in one direction, then in the other. Many parents make special beads for this exercise, stringing beads of different textures and sizes.
If a child speaks very poorly for his age, do not rush to take him to a neurologist. Visit your dentist to examine your mouth and measure the frenulum under your tongue and lips.
Step 3: speech therapy massageMassage will increase blood flow in the speech organs, improve diction and clarity of speech. By working every centimeter of the tongue, we increase blood flow and force even the weakest parts of the muscle to work. Massage can be done by adults, the main thing is to know how to do it correctly.
- for young children, it is important to carry out massage with communication, an interesting fairy tale, in order to prevent rejection;
- maintain a smooth transition from massaging the face and neck to working with the tongue;
- the movements are soft, gentle: alternately stroking and tapping with your fingertips to create vibration;
- You can use a spoon or toothbrush to massage your tongue;
- With your thumbs we make circular movements on both sides of the tongue, draw figure eights;
- A handkerchief or napkin is placed under the tongue to prevent dripping saliva.
A lot has been written about speech exercises using tongue twisters. It’s a pity that many stubbornly ignore this simple training of the speech apparatus. Even a few repetitions a day will help improve articulation. By adding an exercise with pebbles in the mouth or a cork, you can double the effect of the tongue twister.
The main rule for choosing a text for a lesson is to focus on the sounds with which the child has problems. To improve your lessons, you can come up with your own tongue twisters.
Step 5: Watch your breathingTo find out how things are going with improving speech, it will be very useful to record the story on video or audio. Sometimes it seems to us that we speak purely, but others do not think so. To correct speech errors, it is important to learn to breathe fully. It happens that words and letters get confused because a person is used to speaking while swallowing half the words. Train yourself to maintain even breathing while speaking.
How quickly we speak determines how others understand our speech. With children, this problem is solved by the example of adults. If everyone in the family speaks correctly and measuredly, then the child will have the right example before his eyes.
Don't neglect the opportunity to improve your speech and the speech of your children. The ability to clearly, clearly, and understandably express your thoughts will be useful in all life situations!
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Comprehension of oratory is a difficult and painstaking process. Since ancient times, people have sought to learn the art of speaking in front of a crowd. Centuries later, we still want to capture the audience's attention, although now we use modern methods.
website carefully selected several effective practices from Elvira Sarabyan’s book “Learn to speak so that you are heard.”
1. Articulation of sounds “Ш - Ж”
- Ball is heat, yours is important, a joke is creepy, wide is fat, to live is to sew.
- The ground beetle is buzzing, buzzing, spinning. The leather reins fit into the collar.
2. Articulation of sounds “K - G, X”
- Swing - gazelle, count - goal, bone - guest, code - year, whip - bend, club - stupid, Kesha - Gesha.
- A slanting goat walks with a goat. The crab made a rake for the crab, gave the rake to the crab: rake the gravel, crab!
3. Practicing the sound “C”
- Heron - saber, click - juice, goal - mudflow, color - light, circus - cheese, street - fox.
- Well done against the sheep, and against the well done the sheep itself. The heron wasted away, the heron was drying up.
4. Say first slowly, then faster:
Tlz, jr, vrzh, mkrtch, kpt, kft, ksht, kst, ktsch, kzhda, kzhde, kzhdo, kzhdu, kshta, kshte, kshtu, kshto.
5. Say first slowly, then faster:
Stay awake, philosophize, postscript, cheer up, transplantation, supersonic, disheveled, counter-breakthrough, point of explosion, Protestantism, excite, over-anxious, get into the barrel, department, fire hose, ornate, philosophize, monster, much to snore.
6. Training the pronunciation of consonants:
- To Clara, to whom, to the throat, to tours, to Gala, to Katya, to Kiev, to the end, to the city, distant, to get involved, to give, to kindle, an outlet, to live out, without a fur coat, ruthless, immortality, to restore, to confirm, push away
- Top - up, leading - introduction, push - push away, hold - support, drag - pull away, water - introduction, litter - quarrel.
7. Practicing combinations of sounds in the form of a game:
- Hammer the nails: Gbdu! Gbdo! Gbde! Gbdy! Gbda! Gbdi! Gbde!
- Imitate a horse's stomp: Bird! Ptko! Bird! Birds! Ptke! Birds!
- Throw imaginary plates to your partner: Kchku! Kchko! Kchke! Kchka! Kchky! Kchki!
8. Say the phrases first slowly, then quickly:
At that hour a blackbird was singing here. There was hail here that year. The oak was old. Everyone loved Peter. Instantly the club is full. The moss hid the mushroom. Grandfather has become old. Your guest took the cane. Wave splash - sparkle splash! Jump a hundred miles.
9. Practicing sounds:
- Buy a pile of peaks, buy a pile of peaks. Buy a pile of fluff, buy a pile of fluff.
- A sorcerer was doing magic in a stable with the wise men.
- Rhododendrons from the arboretum were given by parents.
- Brit Klim is brother, Brit Gleb is brother, brother Ignat is bearded.
- Karl put onions on the chest, Klara stole onions from the chest.
- The cap is sewn, but not in the Kolpakov style; the bell is poured out, but not in a bell-like manner. The bell needs to be re-capped, re-caulked, the bell needs to be re-bellied, re-bellied.
- The interviewer interviewed the interventionist.
- The nervous constitutionalist was found assimilated in Constantinople.
- A quarter of a pea without a wormhole.
- Jasper in suede became mossy.
10. Repeat slowly and then quickly difficult words:
- (H, w) - to the person who used it
- (K) - small-caliber
- (P, v) - publish
- (P, p) - indirect subsidizing
- (P, t, s) - territorial integrity
- (R, t) - illustrated
- (P, v) - reverb
- (S, f) - means
- (H, v) - four hundred dollar
- (H, f, r) - phantasmagorical
When you listen to another person, the first thing your brain perceives and analyzes is not the words, not the meaning of what was said, but the intonation, timbre and speed of speech. If the voice is unpleasant, no matter what the interlocutor says, you will fence yourself off from him, treat what he says with doubt and distrust, and take what he says with hostility. If the intonation is uncertain, then the interlocutor will not convince you that he is right, even if he has a hundred brilliant arguments on his side. We are designed to read nonverbal information much faster than verbal information, and nonverbal perception affects us even more than we might imagine. After all, from an evolutionary perspective, humans' ability to communicate with words is new. But the perception of intonation, timbre, facial expressions and gestures is deeply rooted in our nature. A child needs to be taught to speak, but he does not need to be taught to understand that mom and dad are angry. Therefore, if you want to become a good speaker, work on the sound of your voice, intonation, timbre and pace of speech.
Why don't your listeners believe you?
You gave a presentation: you wrote a good text, selected a bright visual component, put on your best suit, and prepared for a long time. But the audience was not convinced because your voice sounded uncertain. Subconsciously, people perceive the following nonverbal signals as uncertainty or insincerity:- Frequent coughing.
- Voice spasms.
- Nervous chuckles.
- Facial expression and intonation that do not correspond to what was said.
What to do to make people believe you: voice exercises
1.Read the quatrains “wisely.” Choose any quatrains that you like and read them out loud. First, pronounce each line on one exhalation, and take in air between the lines. Then read two lines at a time as you exhale. Finally, say the quatrain on one exhalation. Perform the exercise in strict sequence: one line, two lines, four lines on one exhalation. Read without tension, let the words flow freely and naturally, at a pace that is comfortable for you.Examples of quatrains for training:
I'm afraid of losing this bright miracle, that in your wet eyes froze in silence, I'm afraid of this night in which I won't be touching your rose of breath with my face. (Federico Garcia Lorca) The moon doesn't know that she is the moon And it glows without knowing it. Sand is incomprehensible to sand. Subjects Not realizing that the form has been given to them. (Jorge Luis Borges) Should I forget my old love? And not be sad about her? Should I forget my old love? And the friendship of former days? (Robert Burns) 2.Read poetry out loud, raising each line one and a half tones. Volume and intonation should rise up the lines, like steps. It is better if the poem ends with an exclamatory sentence, but this is not necessary. To begin with, select short poems, then you can read long ones in this way, but calculate the initial volume in advance so that the speech does not break down on the last line. Poem example: Somewhere in a cave, in the coastal region, I will hide my grief from people. There I'll think about it My evil fate My evil, gloomy fate. Lying woman, to your oaths The time has come to scatter like smoke. Laugh with your lover You are over the lost Over my dishonored happiness! (Robert Burns) 3. Choose a text for training, the content of which will give you the opportunity to demonstrate different means of expression: strength, pitch, timbre, changes in tempo. I will not give an excerpt because it should be quite large: no less than a page of poetic text and no less than half a page of prose. First, read the text to yourself, analyze it: what the text is about, with what intonation it should be read. It is advisable that the passage contain dialogues: read the author’s text calmly, but for each character who speaks out, come up with your own timbre, register and intonation. Practice the passage so that it sounds both expressive and stress-free. 4.Use exercises based on interjections. Professional speakers use concepts such as “sound support”, “voice”, “freedom of the muscles of the lower jaw”. All these are components of the euphonious sound of speech, and all of them are trained with the help of interjections. The fact is that interjections are pronounced naturally and naturally, this helps you find the basic tone of your voice. Therefore, read short poems with interjections: For example: Oh! How free I am! This is how my voice flows! 5.Train the correct direction of sound and clarity of pronunciation. To do this, use tongue twisters for each consonant sound. Do not forget that tongue twisters must be read slowly, with exaggeratedly clear, deliberate articulation. Even if you can say the tongue twister quickly, read it at a much slower natural pace first. Select tongue twisters in groups to produce similar sounds: “b” and “p”, “z” and “s”, “d” and “t”. In fluent speech, these sounds sound similar, and if you have poor diction, listeners will confuse them.To practice the sounds “b” and “p”:
There would be a bull, but there would be meat. There is a priest on a head, a cap on the priest, a head under the priest, a priest under the cap.For clear pronunciation of “v” and “f”:
She was at Frol's - she lied to Frol about Lavra, she will go to Lavra - she will lie to Lavra about Frol.To correctly pronounce "g", "k" and "x":
Giggles and giggles - tiny little ones. He is neither good for himself nor good for people.For the sounds “l” and “l”:
A small deed is better than any idleness. Klava put the onions on the shelf and treated Nikolka to them.For the sounds “ch” and “sch”:
Scales on a pike, bristles on a pig. Not the one, comrades, a comrade to a comrade, who with comrades is a comrade to a comrade, but the one, comrades, a comrade to a comrade, who without comrades is a comrade to a comrade.Why it's time to work on your diction
Diction is the correct pronunciation of sounds and words. Until recently, articulation was called “the politeness of an actor.” But now you can be considered a good speaker, even if you have diction defects: if popular actors and vocalists do not always correct their diction, then what can you expect from people whose work is not directly related to speech? But if you don't pronounce certain sounds, it's harder to understand you. This means that it will take more effort, imagination, and experience to capture the attention of the audience and win them over. Therefore, I always recommend correcting pronunciation defects. Sometimes diction can only be corrected under the guidance of a speech therapist. Most defects have physiological or psychological causes. If you are physically unable to pronounce “l”, “r” or another sound, only a speech therapist can help. But if in general you are able to produce a sound, only in conversation you often swallow it or pronounce it incorrectly, special diction exercises will help correct the situation:- Exercise for making vowel sounds. Take a deep breath, hold your breath for a split second and as you exhale pronounce consonant sounds, making a short pause after each: “a”, “i”, “o”, “u”, “s”, “e”. First, articulate sounds silently, then in a whisper, quietly, louder and louder. Also practice with the iotized sounds “e”, “e”, “yu” and “ya”.
- Exercise for making consonant sounds. Consonants are practiced in syllables with vowels: “ba”, “bi”, “bo”, “bu”. The principle is the same: take a deep breath, after holding your breath for a short time, pronounce the syllables as you exhale, making short pauses between them. Gradually add the second and third consonant to the syllables: “bom”, “bam”, “boom” and so on. Finally, write down and pronounce words with complex combinations of sounds using the same principle. Complex combinations are, for example, three consonants in a row: take-off, fire hose.
- An exercise to improve diction with complex combinations of consonants. There are several options for exercises with complex combinations of sounds. In addition to training their diction, they develop their singing voice. You'll argue that you're not going to take up vocal training, but it's not about singing: the better your vocal skills are, the better your performances will sound. And the more interesting it is for the audience to listen to you. Therefore, practice, for example, with the following combinations of sounds: dli-tli-A aphids-li-A lill-A (Be careful, draw out the second “l” sound in the combination). li-lill-A gly-A length aphids zzhd (Pronounce it together, like a word, and not a set of sounds). zhdi-A zhdr zhdrr zhdrrrr zhdri-A
- Read tongue twisters. In contrast to exercises on setting the correct direction of sound, in order to improve diction, you need to pronounce tongue twisters in the same way as individual sounds: first silently, then in a whisper, quietly, louder, louder. Increase the pace gradually: first read the tongue twister exaggeratedly slowly, then slowly, at a natural pace, faster and faster. Practice tongue twisters for all consonant sounds.
How to relieve tension from the respiratory and paralaryngeal muscles?
Let's return to the nonverbal signals that prevent listeners from trusting you: coughing, a broken voice, a voice that is too quiet or high, an uncertain tone - these are often the result of excessive muscle tension. To improve your diction and develop your oratory skills, use not only exercises, but also special gymnastics.- Exercise “Pull the rope.” Feet shoulder width apart. Imagine that a rope is hanging above you: raise your arms, stand on tiptoes, inhale, and with a long exhalation, pull the invisible rope down. Do this forcefully by bending your arms and squatting. There should be tension in the muscles of the neck and chest. Repeat 3 times silently, and then say “Ba-ba-baba” as you relax.
- “My face is dripping.” This gymnastics is used by actors. Imagine that your face is running: your jaw, tongue, cheeks and lips are flowing down. The tongue rests on the lower lip. Run your hand over your face to feel how relaxed your lower jaw is. Then tilt your head and shake it so that your lips and cheeks vibrate. Do it silently at first, and when you get good at it, say “Amba-ba-ba-ba” to check how freely you sound.
One event prompted me to write this short article.
I needed to record certain phrases on a tape recorder so that I could listen to myself later. I wrote down the text, started listening to it, and realized that I like the way my voice sounds (and for this, of course, thanks to the Natural Voice School :)), but I don’t really like my diction.
And I decided to do one very simple exercise that allows you to significantly improve diction and, moreover, greatly increase the energy of speech!
I call him "Exercise with a pen in your teeth."
Need to take a ballpoint pen or pencil in your teeth along the entire length(that is, so that the ends of the handle stick out from the mouth to the right and left) and start pronouncing any text(prose or poem).
At the same time, it is still necessary use facial expressions as much as possible And articulate. That is, you should especially carefully pronounce both vowels and consonants.
You should do this for 3-4 minutes, and then take out the pen and say the same thing, but without it.
After the exercise you will find that:
1) speaking has become much easier;
2) diction has become much better,
3) the voice began to sound fuller;
4) the energy of speech has increased several times!!
Here is a recording of the poem before the exercise:
This is, in fact, what a poem sounds like with a pen in your teeth :)
And here is the recording after the exercise! Result... I wanted to write “obviously”, but, probably, it would be more correct to say “in the ear” :)
The point here is that we first put a load on the articulatory apparatus and force it to work in enhanced mode. And then we remove the load, and voila!
You probably know what happens when you carry a backpack on your back on a hike for a long time, and then at a rest stop you take it off, and it seems like you’re about to fly! :) The effect here is very similar.
And also the active work of the articulatory muscles causes a general flow of energy to the speaking apparatus, and the voice begins to sound louder and deeper!
Just don’t do this for a long time, 3-4 minutes is enough, otherwise the muscles, on the contrary, will become very tired, and the effect will be the opposite!
The exercise is very simple and incredibly useful if you do it. before speaking in front of people, or recording audio or video of a speech.
And it’s great for singers too will help make singing more expressive, and the words of the song clear and understandable!
There are also similar exercises for improving diction with a cork, or with stones in the mouth. But, firstly, you are unlikely to carry a cork with you all the time, stones can be accidentally swallowed, but you usually always have a pen with you, you can wipe it with a damp cloth and use it :)
Besides, it is the exercise with the pen that works very well on lip clamps, which almost all of us have, and they really interfere with good diction.
A good diction is the key to the fact that those around you perceive you as a confident person!
Hello again! Today we will talk about how to improve your diction . It's no secret that excellent diction is very important for a person in everyday life. But about 30% of people in the world suffer from diction disorders to one degree or another. If you have landed on this page, it means you really want to improve your diction, so I suggest moving straight to solving this problem.
Exercises to improve diction:
1) Tongue twisters
They have been known to us since early childhood. For those who have forgotten, these are a kind of rhythmic sentences with a selection of words, where certain sounds often come across. Regularly practicing tongue twisters can significantly improve your diction, making your speech fast and clear.
It’s worth starting with the simplest tongue twisters. To begin with, the speed of pronunciation should not be too high; bring the pronunciation of sounds and words to clarity. Then you can move on to more complex and multi-level tongue twisters.
Once you're done with that, you can add an obstacle in the mouth to make it more difficult to speak with correct articulation. You can put a walnut, a grape cork, or whatever you have the imagination for in your mouth. This will also greatly improve your diction.
Download the collection of tongue twisters in pdf format
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When speaking for a long time, clearly and beautifully, we often experience shortness of breath. This is especially evident in the form of intermittent and unexpressed speech. This can be corrected by training the diaphragm. You can also train your diaphragm in different ways. Start by blowing up balloons. Then start stretching out the vowel sounds, at first it will be bad, but over time you can achieve it for 20 - 30 seconds. After this, you can change the pitch of your voice.
3) Articulation exercises
- Lower your lower jaw. Slowly move it left and right, then up and down.
- Stand up and place your hands near your chest. As you bend over, as you exhale, say the vowels “u” and “o” long and drawn out in a low voice.
- Open your mouth and smile, then start moving your tongue from one corner of your lips to the other. At the same time, the jaw and lips should remain motionless.
- Close your mouth and lick your teeth under the lower and then under the upper lip. Make sure your jaws and lips remain motionless.
- Open your mouth and smile, and smoothly run your tongue over your upper teeth, touching each tooth as if you were counting them. Make sure that the jaw does not move. Then the same action only on the lower lips.
- Close your mouth and press the tense tip of your tongue either against the left or right cheek.
- Open your mouth and smile. Raise your tongue to your nose, then lower it to your chin.
Regular diction training will lead to its irreparable improvement. Perform these exercises daily and the results will not keep you waiting. I wish you every success in improving your diction!
