Have a listen to some examples of contracted words (such as I'm, he's, she'd etc) and listen to some of the common mistakes people make. Listen and repeat the smooth transition from vowel to consonant. The list will be available on my website - www.midwintertuition.co.uk

A few tongue exercises and mentions of my products

A silly song and a short chat!

Let's stretch out the vowel sounds that we should begin our vocal training with. A simple set of sounds that we use all the time.

HummingAhhingUsing consonants with ahhhhFluttersBring the voice forward

Breathing, posture and capacity exercises.

Pauline lists the best ways to use your voice on the phone

A discussion of the differences and similarities between the two alveolar sounds. Go to www.midwintertuition.co.uk for more details

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Let's try some words that begin with w followed by the short oo sound. It's very tricky! Take it slow. Use a mirror if needed.

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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Some examples and a short explanation given

A revision aid for current students although listeners can hear the intonation and pronunciation of many common sounds, words and phrases. It's at a bit of a pace and split over two podcasts.

A revision aid for current students although listeners can hear the intonation and pronunciation of many common sounds, words and phrases. It's at a bit of a pace and split over two podcasts.

Just a chat about how to keep our throats healthy in the winter

We generally write it as NG but it can be found in other spellings too. Listen and repeat to try and master this sound.

Examining the falling diphthong of ear...

This week, Pauline goes through some reasons why good Elocution is essential for Jobseekers.

Pauline and her 4 year old son Christopher talk about the letter 'H'.

We use Ed Miliband's speech at the Labour Party conference as our starting point, then discuss repetition in speeches followed by disfluencies in everyday conversation

SUCH a tricky letter sound. Let's work through it together. See www.midwintertuition.co.uk for the script for this episode.

Arrrr! Avast me hearties! Let's speak some PIRATE today!

Here we briefly examine the sound made by er/ir/ear/ur in words like 'bird'. See my website www.midwintertuition.co.uk for a list of words.

Hints and tips towards better projection

Thankyou for listening to my podcast - now at 65k downloads and 50 episodes long. Today we look at 'air'.

A refresher for previous and current students and an introduction to how an Elocution lesson might work for newbies.

Practice the rise-fall-rise in hopes and wishes

Pauline reads the poem after examining the end rhyme sounds

Please see separate podcast for L at the end of a word. www.midwintertuition.co.uk

Some examples are given of how we link words

Today we examine the semi-vowel / consonant sound 'W'. We look at words then sentences that use the sound. Listen and repeat to practise the sound.

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I give sound production advice, then example words, plus a little history of the spelling and sound. Check out www.midwintertuition.co.uk for more info

Several examples from the Cambridge English Pronunciation in Use book

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Informal and formal greetings are demonstrated and discussed

B, P, BR, PL, words, phrases, technique. Check out midwintertuition.co.uk for more info

In this episode Pauline gives some examples of commonly-used reassuring sentences, taken from Thompson's 'Intonation in Practice'. We look at where the rise and fall occur. Listen to Pauline and repeat slowly. Secondly Pauline gives some examples of how we contradict people, either by disagreeing or correcting them. The intonation pattern is differ…

Letters and words to practice

Think about who, when, what, where, why and many more - practice the questions by repeating after me.

Once we are confident with the sound we can put them in a sentence.

This is a short podcast to give you impetus to practice with your own examples. Write short sentences containing simple information and practice speaking them using a fall on the informative part. This is often the noun but not always.

Words, sentences and examples, plus an explanation of mouth shape.

Using internet resources and a fantastic textbook, we try a selection of compound nouns

Pauline reads through a long, confusing poem which deals with many irregularities of pronunciation in the English language.

Pauline demonstrates how to make and drill the T and the D. She looks at a few examples of past tense regular that use ed and which t/d/id sound it makes. She finished with her favourite rhyme that uses both sounds! Email [email protected] for more info or look at www.midwintertuition.co.uk…

The consonants are demonstrated in isolation, then with three of the diphthongs. Email [email protected] for more information.

The sound, some words, two sentences.