Mr.

Cristopher Alvin De Guzman

Developing a pleasing and
impressive voice

Volume

Pitch

Quality

Duration
 VOLUME

- the strength and loudness of sound

- makes words audible
- Emphasizes ideas

Speak loud enough to be heard but

DO NOT SHOUT
 Let’s practice!
First – to the person beside you
Second – to the person 5 meters away
Third – to the person 10 meters away

Hello!
You’ve won!
I like your jacket!
Share us a story!
Nice to see you!
 PITCH

- Ah – huh!

Say these using different emotions!

I know what you mean!

You don’t have to say that!

 QUALITY

- determined by the structure of the throat

- Distinguishes the tone from another when

volume, pitch and length of the tones are
the same
 DURATION

- rate of words spoken per minute and the

length of pauses bet. the speaker’s words

- Determines the speed of the speaker’s

thinking.
 Let’s practice!

The Power of Love

Love forgives; love is kind
Love gives great peace of mind
Love requests and love shares
Love smoothes the deepest cares
Love is not surface-bent
Love is strength; love endures
Love is God heaven sent.
Julia Hardy
 Let’s practice!
How Much Longer
How much longer, must I endure this pain,
How much longer, before I see you again,
How many more tears, do I shed, an ocean I've
cried, since
you were found dead.
14 week's, of a terrible hell, when last I saw you, it
was
just your shell.
No longer warm to the touch, "Oh" my darling, I
love you so much.
 Cont…
I miss not touching you my love,
Since the Angel's, carried you above,
I cannot hurt, no more than I do,
My broken heart, still so in love with you,
How much longer, must I endure this pain,
It seems to worsen by the day,
I love and miss you so much my darling,
Why? was I left here, alone to stay,
We've been a pair for so long,
together, always, we do belong,
One day my life will end, my love,
I will come to you, up above,
I won't forget you, nor love another,
I wait to come to you, my Terry, my lover.
Diane Campbell
 Tips in Speech Delivery

• Relax and go
• Learn to breathe properly
• Watch your posture
• Train your ears
• Use enough volume to be effective
• Develop resonance in your voice – hum
• Work for a pleasant quality
• Don’t talk through your nose
• Don’t speak in a dead monotone
THE SPEECH TECHNIQUES
• INFLECTION or INTONATION
• EMPHASIS or GIVING LIFE to words
or group of word
• PHRASING or grouping of words as
a unit of thought
• ACCENTUATION or STRESS
• ARTICULATION or ENUNCIATION
• BLENDING
 INFLECTION or INTONATION
A. Rising Intonation Pattern – used for questions
answerable by a YES or a NO

Do you love me?

Do you believe in God?

• Falling Intonation Pattern – used for questions

that begin with WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE,
WHY and HOW or simply the WH-Questions

What is your name?

How do you do?
 INFLECTION or INTONATION
C. falling intonation — for statements/sentences

My boss decided to hire the five finalists.

He is capable of maintaining excellent health.
The judge and jury joked about the arrangement.

D. list intonation — for items in a series

All kinds of data are on the charts, tables, and graphs.

The last three letters of the alphabet are x, y, and z.
This oral communications training is for CSAs of American
Express, Microsoft, and Emerson.
 INFLECTION or INTONATION
E. Choice intonation — can either go double
rising or upward and downward
Are you going to California or Arkansas?
Would you prefer the 401(k) or the 403(b)?
Would you like window seat or aisle seat?
Are you going to buy a car or a van?
Would you have the dual or hot only
dispenser?
 INFLECTION or INTONATION
F. tag endings
double rising — that would mean that the speaker
is asking a question and wants an answer from
the listener
rising and falling — the speaker is making a
statement and may want confirmation of what he
said.

You prefer this type of investment plan, don’t you?

Wendy lives in a very distant city, doesn’t she?
You have always believed in me, didn’t you?
 INFLECTION or INTONATION
G. intro phrases of sentences use — rising
tone and down at the end of sentence

Before the author wrote, he thought things

through.
In early summer, we will visit the Niagara
Falls.
As we walked down the hallway, we talked
about factory management.
 Let’s Practice

Activity One:
A. (Company name) ,good morning.
B. May I speak with Mr. Robinson, please? This is Diana/Jim
Curtis of _______
A. Could you hold the line, please? I’ll check if he’s around.
I’m sorry, Miss/Mister Curtis. Mr. Robinson is in
conference right now. Would you like to leave a
message?
B. Yes, please. Could you ask him to return my call anytime
today? He has my number.
A. I’ll do that, ma’am/sir.
B. Thank you very much.
A. You’re welcome.
 Let’s Practice

NOW, with your partner, make a

script which you would use in
practicing your intonation contours.
 EMPHASIS

GIVING LIFE to words or group of word

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,

demonstratives, and interrogatives are
usually stressed.

These words are content words, that is, they

have meaning of their own.
 Let’s Practice

1. Mark sent you an e-mail message.

2. We had started the workshop when you came in.
3. The customers are interested to get the brochure.
4. Martin can easily get along with anybody.
5. Patricia Walker brought her laptop to work.
6. Erica Mae Burkland is coming to check on us today.
7. Did you see Liza Minelli rehearsing with Lea Salonga in the
auditorium?
8. James, Philip and Josh were my classmates in UCLA.
9. Paul, Joe, Mary, and Murray came all the way from
Worcestershire.
10. The QA evaluation on Phone Handling Skills came out
yesterday.
 EXAMPLE SENTENCE

"I'm not going".

I'm not going.
meaning [1] = Not "ME", but perhaps "YOU", "SHE" or
"HE".
I'm not going.
meaning [2] = I reFUSE to go.
I'm not going.
meaning [3] = I'm not GOing... I'm COMing BACK
 Let’s practice!

I didn’t say you stole the money.

I didn’t say you stole the money.
I didn’t say you stole the money.
I didn’t say you stole the money.
I didn’t say you stole the money.
I didn’t say you stole the money.
 PHRASING

grouping of words as a unit of thought

a portion of the sentence set off from the rest

by a pause

A canner can can a can.

 Let’s Practice

In order that I may get the maximum out of life,/ I

realize /that I should speak and listen well.// To
speak well, / I must learn to think clearly,/ to
express my thoughts coherently, / and to speak
audibly and distinctly. // My voice should be
pleasant,/ my pronunciation clear, / and my
rate of delivery slow enough / to insure
comprehension. // Above all, / I must work to
overcome my deficiencies in speech / which
interfere with my effectiveness in
communicating ideas. //
The beginning of good reading lies in good
speaking. If you aim at good, clear articulation in
your speech, you will help yourself more than you
know, and to imagine that you can become a good
reader while you remain a careless, slovenly
speaker is absurd. It has been pointed out by
some critics that if the writer aims always at
speaking as well as he can, and at expressing
himself in ordinary conversation as well as he can,
the practice of selecting the finer sounds, phrases
and expressions becomes almost subconscious,
and he reaps his harvest when he sits down to
write.
ACCENTUATION or STRESS

Stressing on a certain syllable of a word in a

sentence by raising the speaker’s voice and
by pausing a little

ceremony
 ARTICULATION

producing clarity of the vowel and the

consonant sounds

Teen Cap Hat Full Joe Sow

Tin Cop Hot Fool Jew Sew

Ten Cup Hut Pole Jaw Saw

 BLENDING
Pronouncing of two or more syllables or words
as if they are one

The first word usually ends in a consonant

and the following word begins with a vowel
sound, or the other way around.
C–V
V–C
C–V-C
 Let’s Practice!

My name is In a good mood

As a gift It’s a pleasure
With a kiss Seasons in the sun
Month of march Terrible actor
Wonders of animation As happy as a lark
Band of the artists In times of uncertainty
Athlete's broken arm Bit of vigilance
Plant in the farm Base of the volcano
 Numbers ending in –TEEN
Put stress on - TEEN

THIRTEEN THIRTY
FOURTEEN FORTY
FIFTEEN FIFTY
SIXTEEN SIXTY
SEVENTEEN SEVENTY
EIGHTEEN EIGHTY
NINETEEN NINETY
 Words accented on the
first syllable
comfortable ceremony catholic
orchestra applicable ancestor
miserable theater monastery
protestant impious category
honorable charitable circumstances
admirable lunatic cemetery
Arabic melancholy preferable
vegetable orator senator
 Words accented on the
second syllable
adventure committee inevitable

lieutenant opponent semester

appreciate verbatim admonish

appropriate utensil abbreviate

associate innumerable Napoleon

 Vowel Sounds Generally
Mispronounced by Filipinos
SEEN SIN
DEAN DIN
MEAL MILL
HEAL HILL
KIN KEEN
BIT BEAT
SEAT SIT
DEED DID
PILL PEEL
DILL DEAL
SHIP SHEEP
LIP LEAP
 Let’s Practice!

• Feel the skin of this eel.

• Eat your fill and don’t miss a meal.
• To have seen that would have been a sin.
• She is the prettiest girl I have ever seen.
• Listen to that din in the dean’s office.
• She feels ill when she sees an eel.
 O vs. OWE

CHALK CHOKE BALL BOWL

BOUGHT BOAT LAW LOW

LAWN LONE CALLED COLD

SAW SO CALL COAL

CAUGHT COAT RAW ROW
 Owe vs. oo

MOAN MOON SOON SOWN

GROW GROOM RUDE ROAD

DOUGH DO NOON KNOWN

POLE POOL SOUP SOAP

BLOW BLOOM COOL COAL
 Let’s Practice!

The pale moon shone on the pool.

The rule here is to keep very cool.
She had two ingrown toenails.
The lost boy was soon on the right road.
Who’s to blow the fire into a blue flame?
Who gave the child a bowl of hot soup?
Two pesos is not too much to contribute.
They should have known that it was high noon.
Who owns this new swimming pool?
 O vs. U
SHOT SHUT JUT JOT

COT CUT RUT ROT

NOT NUT SLOT SLUT

GOT GUT CUD COD

HOT HUT LUCK LOCK
 Foreign Words used in English
Camouflage 'ka-m&-"fläzh, the disguising especially of
-"fläj military equipment or
installations with paint,
nets, or foliage
Reservoir 're-z&-"vwär, a place where something is
-z&r-, -"vwor kept in store
also -"voi
Abattoir 'a-b&-"twär, slaughterhouse
-"twor, -"tor
Entourage "än-tu-'räzh one's attendants or
associates
Menu 'men-(")yü, a list of the dishes that may
'mAn be ordered (as in a
restaurant) or that are to
be served (as at a
banquet)
 Foreign Words cont.
Fiasco fE-'as-(")kO also a complete failure
-'äs-
Gourmet 'gur-"mA, gur-' a connoisseur of food
and drink
Sauté /so-'tA, sO-/ a sautéed dish
Valet - 'va-l&t, 'va- a man's male servant
(")lA, va-'lA who performs personal
services (as taking
care of clothing) b : an
employee (as of a hotel
or a public facility) who
performs personal
services for customers
 Foreign Words cont.
Appliqués "a-pl&-'kA - a cutout decoration
fastened to a larger
piece of material
Masseur ma-'s&r, m&- a man who practices
massage
Masseuse - 's&(r)z, -'süz a woman who practices
massage
Eau de toilette "O-d&-twä-'let a perfumed liquid containing
a lower percentage of
fragrant oils than does
ordinary perfume -- called
also toilet water
Rendezvous 'rän-di-"vü, -dA- a place appointed for
assembling or meeting
b : a place of popular
resort
 Foreign Words cont.
1 : any of various cosmetics for
Rouge 'rüzh, esp coloring the cheeks or lips red
Southern 'rüj 2 : a red powder consisting essentially
of ferric oxide used in polishing glass,
metal, or gems and as a pigment
Fashinable, stylish : topped with ice
A la mode /"ä-l&-'mOd, "a- cream
l&-/
1: the front of a building; also : any
Façade /f&-'säd/ face of a building given special
architectural treatment <a museum's
east facade>
2 : a false, superficial, or artificial
appearance or effect
a woman engaged to be married
Fiancée "fE-"än-'sA,
fE-'än-"
according to a menu that prices each
A la carte /"ä-l&-'kärt, "a- item separately
l&-/
 Foreign Words cont.
Fiance "fE-"än-'sA, a man engaged to be married
fE-'än-"
Repertoire 're-p&(r)-"twär a list or supply of dramas,
operas, pieces, or parts that
a company or person is
prepared to perform
Genre 'zhän-r&, 'zhän-; a category of artistic,
musical, or literary
'zhänr; 'jän-r&
composition characterized by
a particular style, form, or
content
Liqueur - li-'k&r, -'kur, - a usually sweetened
alcoholic liquor (as brandy)
-'kyur
flavored with fruit, spices,
nuts, herbs, or seeds
Chemise - sh&-'mEz, -'mEs - a woman's one-piece
undergarment
 Foreign Words cont.
Canapé 'ka-n&-pE, -"pA - an appetizer consisting of
a piece of bread or toast or a
cracker topped with a savory
spread (as caviar or cheese)
Connoisseur -"kä-n&-'s&r also - EXPERT; especially : one
who understands the details,
-'sur
technique, or principles of an
art and is competent to act
as a critical judge
Crochet krO-'shA - needlework consisting of
the interlocking of looped
stitches formed with a single
thread and a hooked needle
Faux pas 'fO-"pä, fO-' - a social blunder

Vis-à-vis - 'vEz-&-'vE, - 1 : face-to-face with

2 : in relation to
"vEs- also -ä-'vE
3 : as compared with
 Foreign Words cont.
Boudoir 'bü-"dwär, 'bu-, a woman's dressing room,
bedroom, or private sitting
"bü-', "bu-'
room

Mardi gras 'mär-dE-"grä, in Shrove Tuesday often

observed (as in New
New Orleans
Orleans)
commonly -"gro with parades and festivities b
- : a carnival period climaxing
on Shrove Tuesday

Ballet 'ba-"lA, ba-' a theatrical art form using

dancing, music, and scenery
to convey a story, theme, or
atmosphere
Discotheque /'dis-k&-"tek, disco
"dis-k&-'/
 The technique in
POLISHING YOUR ENGLISH
is

PRACTICE