Name: If you follow THIS 4-part training, you will speak CLEARLY!
Uploaded: 2024-06-17T04:09:35.000Z
Duration: 11 min 43 s
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Hello, lovely students and welcome back to English with Lucy.

Please take a look at these three statements.

Number one, I have never found it difficult to pronounce an English word.

Number two, I have never needed to repeat myself because the person I was talking to didn't understand me.

And number three, I have never avoided saying a word out loud because I wasn't sure how to pronounce it.

If all three of these statements are true for you, then stop watching this video.

But if any of them are false, then keep on watching because I have four amazing techniques that are guaranteed to help you to overcome all these problems.

By the end of today's video, you will be able to communicate in English more confidently and clearly.

I've also created a free PDF to go with this video.

In the PDF, you'll find all of the techniques we cover in today's video, plus some bonus tips, and you will also get access to a secret link with interactive pronunciation activities.

If you would like to download the PDF and get access to that secret activity, all you have to do is click on the link in the description box, enter your name and your email address.

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Okay, let's get started with technique number one, flex those facial muscles.

Speaking is a physical activity, so if we want to speak clearly and accurately, we should warm up our muscles just like we would before doing exercise.

The jaw, the lips, and the tongue all work together to make the vowel and consonant sounds that form words.

English has many sounds that require us to drop the jaw and open our mouths up wide.

So here are some exercises to get those muscles moving and to keep them in shape.

Begin by simply massaging your jaw and cheeks.

Once your facial muscles feel relaxed and you can't feel any tension, it's time to start moving.

Imagine that you have something like bubble gum in your mouth and start chewing.

Begin with small movements and then gradually open your jaw wider and wider, like.

Then scrunch up your face as tightly as you can, like this, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and then release.

Stretch out those muscles as wide as you can.

You'll be amazed at how wide I can open my mouth.

I like to do this before I record these videos or if I'm giving a presentation.

It really helps me to speak more clearly.

Let's train our mouths to open up with some tongue twisters.

Arthur's father's aunt is calmer after an afternoon at the spa.

Now let's add in two more vowel sounds that also need an open jaw position.

I'm glad I got Matt's hat back after it got robbed.

Let's move things up a notch and practise some sounds which blend two vowel sounds together.

My jaw moves as I blend the two vowel sounds together so this is a double workout for your muscles.

How about Joe goes down to the house without Rose?

It's time to move on to technique number two.

Our tongues play such an important role in forming sounds.

For example, to make the ul sound, we need to push the front part of the tongue against the top of the mouth, just behind the teeth.

Other sounds such as t, d and n also require this movement.

The tongue also works hard to make the sound r as we need to curl the tongue back in the mouth.

So it's really important that the tongue is strong so we can switch effortlessly between phonemes.

One, pretend your tongue is your toothbrush.

Make sure you use your own tongue and not somebody else's.

Rub the tip of your tongue alongside the outside and inside of your top and bottom teeth like this.

Number two, try to touch your nose with the tip of your tongue.

I can't really get anywhere near with this.

Then imagine that you want to touch your left ear and then your right ear.

If you can, roll it and stick it out as far as you can.

Hold it for a few seconds and then relax.

Now let's practise some of the sounds that are a great exercise for our tongues.

Repeat after me and really exaggerate the movement to give that tongue a workout.

Lily loves to take David and Daniel dancing noon and night.

George and Jane chose a giant chunk of cheese for a budget lunch.

Fabulous, we'll do one more with the sounds ch and jj.

That's right, it's time to loosen your lips.

Let's do some drills to help get your lips used to all of these positions.

Watch my mouth and exaggerate the lip positions.

Ooh, ooh, round the lips and push your lips back.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Smile and tense those facial muscles to make the e sound.

Now, bring the lips together tightly for buh, puh and puh.

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