How to speak correctly and pleasinglyIndependent Corporation, 1918 |
Términos y frases comunes
actual speech Assume the proper Breathe deeply breathe with voice consonant sound CULTIVATE desk dictionary emphasis emphasize thought expand the chest Fill your lungs finger following aloud following words foot slightly advanced force Form the habit give hear hold imitate immediately pronounce inflection lack of fluency LESSON Let the hands lips and mouth Lochinvar Measure the expansion mobile moo mow moi move his lips muscular tension nasal cavity Open the mouth opera glasses organs of speech Practise pression PROBLEM produce pronounce any vowel proper attitude read aloud Read the following reading lips resonant rest your weight Say the following Sit or stand Sound every syllable speak correctly speaker speech errors Speech KEY WORDS speech organs stand erect stiffly syllabification take three deep talk tape measure teeth thought clear thought-containing three deep breaths throat tone tongue train your lips ture unnatural Vanity Fair vocal cords vowel sounds weight almost equally
Pasajes populares
Página 64 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied;— Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide, — And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Página 23 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Página 71 - This textbook may be borrowed for two weeks, with the privilege of renewing it once. A fine of five cents a day is incurred by failure to return a book on the date when it is due. The Education Library is open from 9 to 5 daily except Saturday when it closes at 12.30.
Página 66 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 62 - He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar. He stayed not for brake and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none...
Página 24 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 64 - Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late ; For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Página 24 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown...
Página 63 - America is the land of the free, the home of the brave, the golden opportunity, the chicken in every pot — all of those things.
Página 59 - You have somehow formed the habit of saying "Well, now," "and-aaaa," "now," "er-er-er-er," and various other expressions. Resolve firmly to break the habit and to speak fluently.