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CPSDC CURRICULUM
GUIDE
Vocal Warm-up
Guide: Articulation
Tongue Twisters:
Unique New York, unique New York
You really need unique New York
Fresh fried fish, fresh fried fish, fresh fried fish
Slippery southern snakes slide swiftly down ski
slopes
Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow
leather
Mommy made me mash my mini-muffins
Are our eyes our own?
The sixth sheik's sixth sheep is sick
Charlie chooses to chew choice chilled cherries.
The lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue
The sea ceaseth and thus it sufficeth us
She stood upon the balcony inexplicably mimicking his
hiccuping
And amicably welcoming him in
Moses supposed his toes-es are roses but Moses supposes
erroneously
When one black bug bled black blood, the other black bug
bled blue
A proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee cup
Rubber baby buggy bumpers (repeat quickly)
Repeat the following words as quickly as
you can without losing diction:
Topeka
Aluminum
Wichita
Philadelphia
A-E-I-O-U
Three little kittens who lost their mittens (be careful to
pronounce the "t"s)
Somthing's rotten in the state of Denmark (also "t"s)
Vocal Warm-up:
Projection Exercises
1. Line students up in two equal rows, facing each other.
Have one row say the lines marked "A" and the opposite row
say the lines marked "B." After each interchange, have the
rows take a giant step backwards so that the distance
between them increases. The challenge is to say the line
distinctly. If either member of the pair cannot hear the
line clearly, they can raise their hand to indicate that
their partner should try again.
A: I live in an ice house.
B: I live in a nice house.
A: I go to summer school.
B: I think the summer's cool.
A: I see your two eyes.
B: I see you are too wise.
A: It is five minutes to eight.
B: You have five minutes to wait.
A: Give me some ice.
B: Give me some mice.
2. Work on these pairs of words to be certain there is a
difference between them:
pin-pen kin-ken tin-ten him-hem
sit-set big-beg Min-men Minnie-many
3. The substitution of "n" for "ng" is a common error.
Practice these words:
doing, not doin' coming, not comin' nothing, not
nuthin'
walking, not walkin' talking, not talkin' going, not
goin'
4. Dropping the "t" and "th" in words is another common
error. Practice these words:
with, not wit
Newton, not new'en
water not wah-der
what, not wha
first, not firs
Vocal Warm-up:
Shakespearean Insults
Out you green sickness, out you baggage, you tallow face,
you worm!
You brawling blasphemous incharitable dog!
Hang cur, hang you horse, you insolent noise-make!
Get you gone, you dwarf, you minimus of hindering
knot-grass made, you bead, you acorn!
Hang off, thou cat, thou burr, vile thing; let loose or I
will shake thee from me like a serpent!
Oh me, you juggler, you cancer blossom, you thief of
love!!
Thou painted Maypole, I am not yet so low that my nails
will reach unto thine eyes!
All the infections that the sun sucks up from bogs, fens,
flats on Porspero fall and make him by inchmeal a
disease!
Fie fie you counterfeit, you puppet you!
Are our eyes our own?
Thou naughty varlot!
For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.
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