Effective texts for improving diction by age

Working on diction is a must for radio hosts, TV presenters, businessmen, politicians, poets and writers. Teachers assure that if you improve your speech from an early age, an adult will not need special courses and classes in public speaking over time. It is important from childhood to teach a child to speak correctly and beautifully, which allows him to be an interesting interlocutor in the future. Diction text and special exercises help develop eloquence skills at any age.

What is diction and why is it needed?

Diction is the basis of speech technique and includes several indicators without which beautiful pronunciation is impossible: clear articulation, manner, correctness. In the first case, the accuracy of pronunciation of speech sounds is important. If the articulation is unclear, it is difficult to understand the interlocutor, and speech becomes slurred. They say about such people “porridge in the mouth.” The vagueness is mainly associated with the weak functioning of the articulatory apparatus.

Correct articulation lies in the correct movement of the speech organs involved in the formation of sounds. If the tongue, teeth, lips are in the wrong position when pronouncing, a speech defect occurs, which is treated by a speech therapist. Checking and identifying violations of the articulatory apparatus should be carried out in preschool age, when it is easier to obtain a quick and effective result.

The manner of pronunciation includes reduction of syllables (simplification), pace, emotional coloring of speech, and the presence of shortcomings. The latter include:

• ekanye - when a person often uses parasitic sounds in speech instead of a silent pause: m, e, etc., which is noticeable and irritates the interlocutor;
• noise sighs - in the ethics of speech it is not customary to take deep breaths before starting or ending a sentence;
• the use of parasitic words - when, due to the paucity of vocabulary or banal habit, a person often uses parasitic statements between words: this is, as it were, shorter, etc.;
• prolongation of vowel sounds when a person tries to remember something or mentally constructs the next sentence;
• nasalization is a vulgar feature of speech, when in a conversation the last vowels in a word are pronounced nasally;
• smacking.

The listed shortcomings do not decorate any person. It is important to teach a child to speak correctly from an early age, because basic parasitic words and speech habits appear in childhood and continue into adulthood.

Funny New Year's tongue twisters for the competition

Before the New Year, I especially want to recharge myself with a positive mood. And holiday tongue twisters will help with this. By the way, they can be used for holding table competitions. For example, who can read all the tongue twisters faster? Or who will read the most tongue twisters correctly? There are a lot of variations, so go for it!

The hedgehog is lying by the Christmas tree, the hedgehog has needles.

Ah, at the spruce, ah, at the spruce, ah, at the spruce there are evil wolves.

Sasha hit a bump with his hat.

A sorcerer was doing magic in a stable with the wise men.

White snow, white chalk, The white hare is also white. But the squirrel is not white - it wasn’t even white.

We bought mittens and felt boots for Valerika and Varenka.

Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge jump, Senka off his feet, Sonya in the forehead, all in a snowdrift.

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How to improve diction at any age

Both children and adults can improve their oratory skills. Diction training depends on the choice of exercises and texts, source material (deviations in speech). Texts for training diction and speech are used according to the principle from simple to complex. You can start working with a combination of complex consonants. When working through the exercise, it is important to pronounce each individual sound correctly so that it is clearly audible to the interlocutor. First, all letter combinations are pronounced, then the main ones are highlighted, where speaking is more difficult, in order to hone them.

Speech therapists advise monitoring the speech apparatus in the mirror when pronouncing sounds. The mouth, teeth, tongue, lips, cheeks should actively move and not be in one position. If U, then these are lips like a tube, O - an oval extended forward, A - the mouth is wide open, W - the teeth are closed, the mouth is smiling, etc. At first, the syllables are spoken slowly, clearly highlighting a separate sound, then you need to speed up the pace, but do not lose clarity of pronunciation: zhdr, krlp, mkrpv, mpnkr, smprv, shnptm, kzhdo, adzhvk, shlkat, kshto, shlotk, ktsch, shtko, kpt, TPK, vaztd, mkrt, jr, grlt.

From syllables you can move on to words. The task remains constant: clearly pronounce each sound in a word, first slowly, then increasing the pace. Upon completion of the exercise, a person should read words quickly, clearly, the organs of the speech apparatus are working actively - “living mouth”.

You can use the following words: armored personnel carrier, department, stay awake, hello, cheer up, ornate, philosophize, philosophize, excite, superbeing, super-anxious, transplantation, transcription, Protestantism, get into the barrel, counter-breakthrough, quarrelsome, controller, usherette, space, parasitology, postscript , explosion point, end, adventure, synchrophasotron, phenolphthalein, tetrahydrocannabinol.

At the end of the warm-up, say a few complex sentences, then move on to reading texts. During gymnastics, it is important to monitor your voice. It should not jump or change when pronouncing complex combinations or individual sounds. It is necessary to maintain an even tone of speech:

• Masha gave Romasha the whey from the yogurt.
• Masha was given porridge, and Sasha was given yogurt.
• Difficult to pronounce words are called difficult to pronounce because they are difficult to pronounce.
• A person who is poorly coordinated has a poorly coordinated gait.
• A trumpeter walks down the street, a trumpet sings, a trumpet roars, a trumpet blows.
• Malanya the chatterbox chattered and chattered that 33 ships tacked, tacked, tacked, tacked, tacked, but didn’t tack.

You need to read the sentences out loud, slowly at first, then picking up the pace. You can take a separate one and read it at an increasing pace until perfect pronunciation at a high speed is achieved.

Poems for diction

1. A bug fell into Cheburashka's cup, Good Cheburashka took out the bug, put the bug on a piece of paper to dry. The bug dried up, rose from the piece of paper, and again fell into Cheburashka's cup.
2. The blue moonlight did not let the donkey sleep, The donkey sat down on a boulder And yawned and yawned... And by chance the donkey suddenly swallowed the moon, Smiled, sighed - And fell asleep calmly.
3. Evil rats Gnawed the roof, But a red kitten came, the rats ran into the holes and trembled there with fear. Khryusha - a piglet Oinks in his sleep: Oink and oink! Oink yes grunt! Give me the apricots! Piggy Pig, Before you eat, take some soap and wash your snout!
4. Ten little chickens wandered into our kindergarten. They were brought in from the street by the Mottled Chicken. Dear chicken, you are on the wrong street, this is a kindergarten. But not for chickens!
5. Sy-zy, sy-zy, it became boring without a goat. Se - ze, se - ze, I picked grass for the goat. Ri-li, ri-li, the cranes have arrived. Sha-zha, sha-zha, we found a hedgehog in the grass. Shche-zha, shche-zha, dirt on the bear’s shoulder. Zhi-shi, zhi-shi, they are as good as candy. Zu-su, zu-su, they don’t let a fox into the house. La-ra, la-ra, there is a mountain on a mountain. Pu-bu, pu-bu, an owl sits on an oak tree. Pa-ba, pa-ba, and under the oak tree there is a hut. Hey, hey, hey, chicken legs by the hut. No, no, no, that hut is coming to you. You, you, you, I found your traces. Those are the same, those are the same, but you are nowhere to be found. Tu-doo, tut-doo, and I go with a pipe. Ti-di, ti-di, come quickly.
6. We can’t understand Dasha in any way, After all, Dasha has porridge in her mouth. But not buckwheat and not pilaf - This porridge is made of words!
7. The letter “R” loves the tiger cub - He has been growling it since childhood. The letter “R” loves fish - Best of all... he is silent.
8. Our little pig grunts loudly from the cradle on the letter “R”. I will be close friends with him - “R” will help me teach.
9. I’m already skipping to my lessons with the speech therapist: After all, I can show my tongue to a strict teacher!
10. Every officer must speak “R” perfectly! After all, otherwise he will not be a soldier in an even line. (Commands: “Attention!”, “Align!”, “Line up!”, “Pay off in order!”)
11. It doesn't suit a deputy or a singer to be burry. Don’t give bread to parodists, learn to speak purely.
12. We sat down in order, doing exercises together, not with our feet, not with our hands, but with our... tongues.
13. Yesterday's hail damaged the grapes.
14. Seryozhka cuts radishes into okroshka.
15. And Marina’s gift included three huge tangerines.
16. Tiger and lynx are relatives for pussy, Turnips and radishes are for radishes.
17. Arthur in the portrait Wearing a burgundy beret.
18. The rat has cheese rinds in his hole.
19. Thirty-three huge crayfish, All in elegant red tailcoats.
20. Spring rye is a grain crop.
21. Princess Arina has three feather beds on her bed.
22. We congratulated Ira on the radio.
23. Cigarettes and cigarettes are all prohibited for the guys.
24. Ice hole in the pond - I’ll come to fish.
25. Our Borka dove with a beaver, but Romka dove with an axe.
26. The driver is turning the steering wheel early in the morning.
27. Curly redhead Yura is proud of his hair.
28. Radio designer Invented a loudspeaker.
29. A warm appeal to the people: Take care of your native nature!
30. We will come to the holiday dressed up, neat and tidy.
31. Crosswords and charades We are happy to solve them.
32. I am happy to correct my speech apparatus.
33. Arthur bought a tour to Europe.
34. Prokhor and Varvara are a wonderful couple.
35. The cook at the tavern guaranteed pasta for Ira’s side dish.
36. And in the hands of the children are multi-colored balls.
37. Star Raven repertoire: In the morning, in the evening - everything is CARRR!
38. In our lake, Andrey Thirty caught eels. Fry, smoke them and boil them - Very tasty eels.
39. To get the kernel from a nut, you need to crack through its shell.
40. The beaver gnaws birch trees with its teeth, as if with sharp incisors.
41. Sveta saw pineapples on a pine tree in a dream.
42. The pussy asks Sasha: “Share the sausage!”
43. The goose took a bath, but remained dry.
44. In the garden, among the branches, a nightingale whistles.
45. I tried, I tried - I signed for the parcel.
46. The last leaf has fallen from the autumn aspen.
47. The owl is observing the hourly routine, everything is on schedule, as agreed. (According to A. Usachev)
48. Lenka treats Kolka’s sick knee with a green peg.
49. I made Malvina's poodle from clay.
50. I divide the orange into slices for Alina and for Kolka.

Storm from the shore

Tossed over, overturned The white-whiskered eels got angry and went wild. Thrown down, thrown up, Unraveled and intertwined from dawn to dawn. Trembling snakes, squealing snakes, What kind of dance, what kind of fairy tale have you started in the darkness? With swirling mists splashing the path, you have closed and obscured all the fairways to the ground. Encircled by the darkness, the ships were tossed about, lost in the ocean, tossed about uncontrollably, Water snakes, fire snakes lured them into the abyss. How are you deceiving? Isn't it the swiftness of the bending and twisting of long elongated bodies? And aren’t you caressing the intoxicating caresses that lead you to an unknown limit with slowness?

Improving diction in children

The main difficulty for children when pronouncing complex words is the rapid change of articulatory position, when it is difficult to rebuild the speech apparatus depending on the subsequent changing sound. Before you start working with your child directly on diction, you need to conduct speech gymnastics aimed at improving articulation.

Carry out exercises to develop the muscles of the speech apparatus:

• Make the sound A with your mouth wide open. The child must imagine that he is speaking into a megaphone.
• Make the sound O, stretching your lips as far as possible.
• Exercise “Smile”, when the child stretches his mouth wide, pronouncing the sound I.
• Make the sound U, extending your lips into a tube as far forward as possible.

Breathing exercises help set up your speech apparatus before reading texts for diction. It is necessary to teach the child to distribute breathing correctly:

• on a deep breath, pronounce the syllables: “house”, “bom”, “out”, retaining the air until the end of the pronunciation, distributing it to each word;
• blow out an imaginary candle, but slowly, gradually blowing out the air;
• pronounce sentences, at the beginning of the first word, take an imperceptible deep breath, distribute it until the end: “They found a pair of boots and 12 galoshes on Tamara,” “Mom loves Masha, and Masha loves mother.”

It is necessary to move on to reading texts after an articulatory warm-up. Spend at least 15 minutes on the preparatory stage. Speech therapists, when working with preschoolers and schoolchildren, advise using poetry and humorous texts so that the learning process is not a burden. While reading, it is important to monitor correct articulation, clear pronunciation of each sound, and voice placement. Diction training for children is carried out using the following texts, following the main rule: from easy to complex.

• Read the text, clearly pronouncing the sounds: sh, zh, h, shch, ts:

“The black lapwing, not bored, chirped over a cup of tea. The hedgehog has a hedgehog, the grass snake has a snake. If you want to eat rolls, don’t sit on the stove. Well done against the sheep, and against the well done the sheep itself. Sasha walked along the highway and sucked on a dryer. Two puppies are nibbling grass in the corner, cheek to cheek. The student was studying his lessons, his cheeks were covered in ink.”

• Read the text slowly at first, watching the pronunciation of individual sounds, and then speed up the pace.

The rhyme amuses the children and makes the process of working on diction interesting. You can work additionally with this text: give the child the task of reading it sadly, cheerfully, angry, laughing, restrained, calmly, loudly, quietly. It is good to train individual sounds: ch, r, k, s, asking the child to highlight them intonationally and articulatorily when reading.

Speech therapists use texts with pictures in practice for preschoolers and schoolchildren. They not only help improve diction, but also stimulate the development of memory, attention, imagination, thinking, and logic.

When working with preschoolers, the teacher (parent) reads the text, the child looks at the picture, continues the sentence, pronounces intonationally and clearly all the necessary imitative words, exercises in the process of reading a fairy tale, and repeats after the adult. The student can independently read a fairy tale and complete assignments. An adult only monitors the clarity and correctness of speech.

Foreign tongue twisters

The benefits of tongue twisters in a foreign language are obvious. With their help, pronunciation is improved. The words in English tongue twisters are chosen in such a way as to speak not only quickly and clearly, but also with the correct accent. This is a great addition for language learning. Working on such tongue twisters is necessary not only for people learning a foreign language, but also for those who speak it at a good level and speak to the public at international conferences and symposiums. Tongue twisters exist in different foreign languages.

• English tongue twisters:

“Betty Botta bought some butter, “But, she said, this butter's bitter, But a bit of better butter will make my batter better.” So, she bought a bit of butter better than the bitter butter, And it made her batter better. So, it was Betty Botta’s batter bought a bit of better butter.”

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“How many cans can a cannibal nibble if a cannibal can nibble cans? As many cans as a cannibal can nibble if a cannibal can nibble cans.”

• Spanish tongue twisters:

Pancha plancha con cuatro planchas. Con cuantas planchas Pancha plancha? (Pancho irons with four irons. How many irons does Pancho iron with?)

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Del pelo al codo y del codo al pelo, del codo al pelo y del pelo al codo. (From hair to elbow and from elbow to hair, from elbow to hair and from hair to elbow).

Improving diction in teenagers

Teenagers also need to start working on developing diction after articulation and breathing exercises. Exercises should be aimed at developing the speech apparatus, pronouncing individual sounds, complex words, and sentences. While working, you need to simultaneously monitor your breathing: at the beginning of a sentence, take an imperceptible breath, distribute it over the remaining time until the end of the speech. On the next sentence, repeat the procedure again.

The following suggestions and exercises are suitable for warming up a teenager. These can be tongue twisters, short poems, pure tongue twisters.

Difficult texts for diction must be taken after successfully pronouncing difficult tongue twisters. When reading a text, it is important to maintain clear pronunciation, train correct articulation, gradually increasing the tempo.

When working with teenagers, it is also important to have interesting and unusual material. Due to their age, children may approach activities irresponsibly. Properly selected exercises will distract you and set you in a positive mood. A cheerful Chinese tongue twister works well in this case.

Once upon a time there lived three Chinese - Yak, Yak-Tsidrak, Yak-Tsidrak-Tsidron-Tsidroni, and three more Chinese women - Tsypa, Tsypa-Dripa, Tsypa-Dripa-Lampomponi. Yak got married to Tsypa, Yak-Tsidrak to Tsypa-Dripa, Yak-Tsidrak-Tsidron-Tsidroni to Tsypa-Dripa-Lampomponi... So they had children: Yak and Tsypa - Shah, Yak-Tsidrak and Tsypa-Drypa - Shah -Sharah, at Yak-Tsidrak-Tsidroni with Tsypo-Drypa-Lampoponi - Shah-Sharah-Sharoni.

English tongue twisters with translation

Reading tongue twisters in English develops speech in terms of pronunciation of letter combinations unusual for the Russian language. Tongue twisters in English with translation are designed for children over 6 years old learning a foreign language.

Marmot

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How much wood would a woodchuck throw if a woodchuck could throw wood?

Zoo

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie?

Can you imagine an imaginary zoo manager running an imaginary zoo?

Oyster

Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisier noise annoys an oyster most.

Any noise irritates the oyster, but louder noise irritates the oyster even more.

Shells

She sells sea shells at the sea shore, the shells she sells are the sea-shore shells, I'm sure.

She sells seashells on the seashore, the shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.

Improving diction in adults

Texts for the development of speech and diction for adults differ from those for teenagers in complexity and volume. Speech therapists advise starting work on clear and correct pronunciation with difficult tongue twisters. Before a speech, any speaker or announcer works on articulation in order to tune the speech apparatus to work. When preparing to read complex texts for diction, it is important to fulfill the following conditions:

• when pronouncing a tongue twister, monitor the position of the speech apparatus, it must work: lips, teeth, cheeks, tongue are in active movement;
• when pronouncing a pure tongue, highlight a certain sound intonationally (drawn out or louder);
• start reading at a slow pace, gradually speeding it up;
• monitor your breathing, distribute it, don’t forget to take air in the next sentence.

You need to not only read the texts, but also monitor the correct pronunciation of sounds and the placement of the articulatory apparatus. You can do exercises in front of a mirror to take care of yourself. With the help of texts, they work on the clarity of pronunciation of certain sounds: sh, r, ch, k, s, sch, c, l.

Content

• How to work with tongue twisters Work order
• Pronunciation speed
• Pronunciation intonation

It's no secret that tongue twisters are used to train diction and pronunciation. This is the fastest and easiest way to improve the quality of your speech. If you systematically devote time to speaking tongue twisters, you can achieve good results. Speakers, actors, vocalists, and public speakers practice tongue twisters regularly. In general, devoting time to special exercises is useful for everyone who wants to achieve intelligible and expressive speech.

Tips for successfully developing diction

When a person studies with a professional, it is easier to improve diction than when working independently. Speech therapists give advice on how to make home learning interesting, useful, and effective.

1. Conduct classes every day. Daily work on powerful exercises allows you to improve your diction in a few weeks.
2. Allow 15-30 minutes a day for speech gymnastics, depending on age.
3. When teaching diction, it is customary to record speech on a voice recorder and listen to it afterwards to mark achievements.
4. You need to perform exercises according to the principle from simple to complex.
5. In addition to classes, it is necessary to read fiction to enrich your vocabulary.

In this way, you can achieve a significant improvement in diction. A beautiful and well-placed voice makes it possible to influence people’s opinions in communication, increase status, and makes the conversation easy and relaxed, unburdened.