Normal Vocal Chords in Slow Motion Technique

http://youtu.be/Drns_eV9wWg

Vocal Folds in Movement.:

The level of abstaction needed to understand the vocal folds functioning, maks this video quite useful for the identification and production of both voiced and voiceless sounds.

http://youtu.be/Gv4evDGLgjQ

FRIENDS WILL BE FRIENDS

Listen and correct the lyrics of this very famous song "Friends will be friends"
(by “Queen”*, in 1986)


Each line has got one incorrect word. Find it and then replace it


YOU TUBE

Another red letter pay,
So the pound has dropped and the millions are creating,
The other half went away,
Taking all the cash and living you with the lumber,
Shot a pain in the chest,
Doctors on bike
what you need is a vest
It's not busy love,
but you've got friends you can toast,

Friends winning friends,
When you're in need of love they give you care and protection,
Friends winning friends,
When you're true with life and all hope is lost,
Cut out your hand ‘cause
friends winning friends
write till the end

Now it's a wonderful day,
The postman delivered a letter from your mother,
Only a night call away,
You tried to track him down but your mummy stole his number,
As a matter of act,
You're getting used to bites without him in your way
It's so greasy now,
‘cause you got friends you can toast,

TWIST YOURSELF

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
PRACTISE THESE TONGUE TWISTERS !!!!!!

TRANSCRIBE THEM IN PHONEMES AND THEN REPEAT!!!!! 

1. A big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!
2. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
3. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
4. Green glass globes glow greenly.
5. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
6. There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
7. Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork, that is the way you spell New York.
8. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
9. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
10. When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write.
11. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?
12. How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
13. 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.
14.  I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late.
15.  I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
16.  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
17. Seven slick slimy snails, slowly sliding southward.
18. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
19. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
20. If you understand, say ""understand"". If you don't understand, say ""don't understand"". But if you understand and say ""don't understand"". how do I understand that you understand?
21. Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not.
22. Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot. We'll weather the weather whether we like it or not.
23. Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter, so Betty bought some better butter, and the better butter Betty bought was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!
24. Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me. My mother's making me marry Mary Mac. Will I always be so merry when Mary's taking care of me? Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
25. When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
26. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

The Vocal Tract

Vocal Folds

This "nice" picture shows the star of the Speech Apparatus: The Vocal Folds. 

The schematic pictures we use in class help us to discover the importance of these organs in the production of differences in sound quality.

Men have skilfully learnt how to manipulate this elastic tissue to convey messages and acquire the magnificent possibility of communication.

Speech Chain