SPEECH 4

Prepared by: Ms. Niezel R. Magsipok

Clear speech, proper pronunciation and strong communication skills have always been highly important in the academic, professional and personal worlds. This fact has never been more true now in this modern age, where it’s not only a useful skill, it’s a requirement to survive and thrive.

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Affricates- a composite speech sound made up of a stop, immediately followed by a fricative (sound made by breath friction).

Affricatives [s] - [z] and

            [ʃ] – [z]

The proper pronunciation of affricatives [s] - [z]

[s] as in sat and [z] as in zip ·        Think of [t] but retract your tongue a little bit so that it does not touch your gum ridge. ·        Raise the sides of your tongue so that they lightly touch your middle and back upper teeth. ·        Direct a thick stream of air down a shallow groove in the middle of the tongue. ·        Keep your lips slightly open and spread. ·        Keep your jaw almost closed. ·        The [s] is voiceless while the [z] is voiced.

Practice these words.

1. sue- zoo 2. sap- zap 3. seal- zeal 4. sip- zip 5. sown- zone 6. sounds- zounds

7. ice- yes 8. curse- curs 9. loose- lose 10. niece- knees 11. place- plays 12. face- faze

Practice these phrases.

1. sizzling steak 2. sample size 3. simple zip 4. sad zebra 5. sunny Zulu

6. sounding zounds 7. sany Zulu 8. niece grows 9. cursed prize 10. the Jews’ face

The proper pronunciation of [ʃ] and [z]

[ʃ] as in show and [z] as in leisure ·        Draw your tongue back slightly farther for  [ʃ] as in show and [z] ·        Flatten the tongue somewhat. ·        Point the tip toward your front teeth or your upper gum ridge. ·        The sides should not touch the inner borders of the upper back teeth. ·        Direct the air stream over a relatively wide but shallow central passage rather than through the narrow groove that characteristics s. ·        Pucker your lips more for [ʃ] - [z] than for [s] - [z]. ·        Your jaw should be positioned similar to the s position but it could be moved a little lower ·        The [ʃ] is unvoiced while the [z] is voiced.

Practice these words.

1. bash - beige

2. rash - rouge

3. assure - azure

4. fission – fusion

5. mission – vision

Practice these phrases.

1. sure amnesia 2. short garage 3. shiny illusion 4. shy Russian 5. sure measure 6. fresh treasure

7. vision of sheep 8. rash decision 9. crashing collision 10. sheer pleasure 11. trash or treasure 12. camouflage washer

Tongue Twister - a word or group of words difficult to articulate rapidly, usually because of a succession of similar consonantal sounds.

It is a phrase or sentence which is hard to speak fast, usually because of alliteration or a sequence of nearly similar sounds. It helps develop speech skills & helps in speech therapy. To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling or mispronouncing.

Tongue Twisters are used more to improve flexibility in the mouth, lips, and jaw. This leads to (2)two benefits:

1) improved diction and enunciation,

2) greater ability to properly form vowels in order to produce a clearer tone.

Let’s practice affricatives [s] - [z] and [ʃ] – [z] through some tongue-tangling words. Try also to identify the words that are composed of affricatives.

1. A woman to her son did utter,

“Go my son, and shut the shutter.”

“The  shutter’s shut,” the son did utter,

“I cannot shut it any shutter”

2. Sheila is selling her shop at the seashore,

For shops at the seashore are so sure to lose.

Now she’s not so sure of what she should be selling!

3. Moses supposes his toes’s are roses

Moses supposes erroneously

Moses supposes his toes’s are roses

Yes, Moses supposes his toes’s to be.

Try to watch this video from Youtube. Read the tongue twisters as fast as you can. http://youtu.be/yB_1VNQazNo

God Bless and Keep Safe! J