Voice and Speech exercises
These are a couple of Voice and Speech exercises that I remember doing in drama at school, that can be used to experiment with voice.
1. Air whispers through the trees (students say this line softly, almost whispering)
Steam hisses in a kettle (slightly louder)
Water crashes from the seas
And fire melts metal (scream)
(The volume of each line gradually gets louder, but the students still need to pronounce every word clearly).
2. I can make my voice climb higher and higher..
3. I can make my voice go lower and lower…
4. In the drawing room Lady Penelope languidly sipped a long, cool glass of lemonade while listening to the dulcet tones of the flute played by her companion. (Pitch, pace, volume, tone, articulation)
5. Tongue twisters-
Red leather, yellow leather; red leather, yellow leather
Black bugs blood
You lose too many shoes
Alone at home
A wicked cricket critic
From Thalia