Call me, maybe? Learn the science of sound with art and craft!
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Oh, for the love of language! Challenge yourself with these tricky tongue-twisters!
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MAKE
YOUR
OWN
Paper Cup
Telephone Ever wondered how someone’s voice travels through the telephone?
Sound is made when a series of vibrations travel through the air. Our ears translate these vibrations as sound waves and our brain understands them as sound.
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Step
1 Punch a hole at the bottom of each cup.
Here’s a really cool art and craft idea that helps you put this theory into action - a paper cup telephone! You can practice speaking clearly and listening carefully with this DIY device too.
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things you need. . .
Plastic cup x 2
Pin
Scissors
Pass th
e string
through
the hole
.
String (2 metres)
3 Now it’s time to test it and see whether it works. Grab a friend and ta ke turns to speak and listen from each end!
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Tie a kn
Repeat the abov e steps with another cu p using the sam e string.
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e v o l e h t r o f , h O ! e g a u g n a l f o
Limericks, tongue twisters, and funny riddles are the wonderful things in the English language that muddle our minds, tickle our tummies, and help us pronounce our words better! We think the best way to learn a new language is to simply fun with it. Here we go!
A Li m er ic k
A Tong ue-t wist er
has a 5-line poem that is a humourous re are a He ’. of ‘a-a-b-b-a rhyming pattern . few classic ones
is a series of words often starting with the same letter, that are difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. How fast can you say these tongue twisters corre ctly?
Lynn A young lady of g lady of Lynn, There was a youn mmonly thin Who was so unco sayed That when she es e To drink lemonad and fell in. w ra st e th h e slipped throug
The Woodchuck How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, And chuck as much as a woodchuck would If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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a flue A flea and a fly in could they do? t ha so w Were imprisoned, us flee!" Said the fly, "let the flea. "Let us fly!" said flue. ugh a flaw in the So they flew thro
Peter Piper 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?
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thinking in quires creative re at th n tio es ese out. is a qu correctly. Try th em th er sw an order to
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SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WHO
OVERCAME
Speech
IMPEDIMENTS! [ By Esther Dharshini ]
rd of the term Have you hea pe of uttering is a ty ‘stuttering’? St a person’s er that affects speech disord ever, you k clearly. How ability to spea three e it! Here are can overcom ame their le who overc famous peop ent on to iments and w speech imped gs! do great thin
Winston Churchill Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and also a Nobel prize winner. He is well known for giving inspiring speeches during World War II. Despite all of his successes, Churchill actually suffered from a speech impediment which continued throughout his career but he worked very hard to overcome it. He did this by studying his speeches and practising them over and over again.
Tiger Woods Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer who has won many golf competitions. Even with all this success, Woods actually suffered from a speech impediment. He said that it took hard work and an ambitious spirit to overcome stuttering. Woods once said, ”It was very difficult. I went to a school to try and get over that, and I just would work my tail off" (work really hard at it).
John Paul Larkin John Paul Larkin is best known by his stage name, Scatman John. He was a poet and an American jazz musician. John had a stammer from a very young age. His stammering led him to have a difficult childhood which he tried to overcome. At age 12, he started playing the piano which helped him express himself better. ”Scatting (a style of jazz) was turning my biggest problem into my biggest asset,” he said. “Playing the piano gave me a way to speak”.
These stories of great people show that with enough perseverance, you can overcome anything! 18