Monday, March 18, 2013

CHAPTER 5: VOICE


Chapter 5:  Voice QUESTIONS                           NAME:


  1.  When the diaphragm expands and the chest cavity is enlarged, what is created?

  2.  What is another name for the breathing process?

  3.  Breath control is important to good ________ control.

  4.  What sound does your voice make if you do not use your vocal chords?

  5.  When expelled air passes through the vocal chords, it makes sounds.  This stage of voice production is called _______________.

  6.  What four parts of your body make your voice resonate?

  7.  Define articulation.

  8.  What are the two kinds of articulators?  What is the difference between the two?


  9.  Name six weak qualities a voice can have that detract from the way it sounds to others.


 10.  Explain the difference between volume and intensity.


 11.  When a speaker varies his volume and intensity, what does this give to key words or phrases?

 12.  If as a beginning speaker, you prepared enough material for a five minutes speech, but it only lasts three minutes, what does this say about your rate of speaking?

 13.  What three things does pause add to a speech?

 14.  What  is the process called framing

 15.  What is pitch

 16.  What is another word for articulation? 

 17.  What are the four most common problems in articulation that are really quite easy to correct?



 18. Look at the sample on page 83.  Notice how the passage is marked, indicating pauses, intensity, volume, rate, etc.  Mark the passage on the back with those marks, indicating how you would read it aloud.



(see page 83)
A Sad Rat


                   Once there was a young rat named Arthur, who could never make up his mind.  Whenever the other rats asked him if he would like to go out with them, he would answer, “I don’t know.”  When they said,  “Would you like to stay at home?” he wouldn’t say yes or no either.  He would always resist making a choice. 
                   One day his aunt said to him, “Now, look here.  No one will ever care for you if you carry on like this.  You have no more mind than a blade of grass!”  The young rat Arthur just coughed and looked wise, as usual, but said nothing.
                   “Don’t you think so?” asked his aunt, stamping her feet, for she couldn’t bear to see the young rat so cold-blooded.  “I don’t know,” was all Arthur ever answered.  Then he would calmly walk off and think for an hour whether he should stay in his cool hole in the ground or go out and walk. 
                   One day, however, the young rat’s life changed forever.  It was the day Arthur met the farmer’s cat.  When Arthur spotted the cat, he couldn’t decide if he should run left or right or stay right where he was.  While he thought it over, the cat slowly crept closer and closer and closer, and then it suddenly gobbled him up!