Speakers and readers often say, "I don't need a microphone. I speak loud enough."
They do need a microphone. People with hearing aids have them linked to the microphone. If you don't use the microphone, they can't hear you. They are forced to lipread. Which is impossible when they have sodoy large sitting in front, or you turn away or look down at what you are reading. or the listener cannot lip-read.
Be sure to look up, ideally all the time, if not most of the time. And all of the time when you are speaking. As soon as you look down the audience cannot hear you and is not connected.
Keep the microphone slightly to your right. Then it is not obscuring your face, your facial expressions, your eye contact, making a psychological barrier.
Keep your microphone with you, near your mouth. Do not turn to your left or mutter asides.
Speak more slowly and clearly than usual.
Speak only about yourself. Do not be rude about previous performers. ("Yes," Alison told me. "That happened recently.)
Training Children To Speak
How do you get children to speak confidently and quote? Some grandparents look after children and have the patience to do this and find it fun.
One set of grandparents had to look after a grandchild who had chicken pox for a week, whilst both of the child's parents worked in their restaurant.
Have a quotation day. Feature their favourite books. For example, an Enid Blyton Day.
A Rupert Bear Day is fun. Rupert said, "If anybody ask for me, they'll find me in the lavatory."
to create a poem for an open mic night, use rhymezone. this will find you not only rhymes but also one of more syllable rhymes and slant rhymes, and even iambic rhymes (emphasis on first, and alternating syllables). Good for creating iambic pentameters.
To find a rhyme:
rhymezone.com
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Author of Quick Quotations.
Please share links to your favourite posts.
They do need a microphone. People with hearing aids have them linked to the microphone. If you don't use the microphone, they can't hear you. They are forced to lipread. Which is impossible when they have sodoy large sitting in front, or you turn away or look down at what you are reading. or the listener cannot lip-read.
Be sure to look up, ideally all the time, if not most of the time. And all of the time when you are speaking. As soon as you look down the audience cannot hear you and is not connected.
Keep the microphone slightly to your right. Then it is not obscuring your face, your facial expressions, your eye contact, making a psychological barrier.
Keep your microphone with you, near your mouth. Do not turn to your left or mutter asides.
Speak more slowly and clearly than usual.
Speak only about yourself. Do not be rude about previous performers. ("Yes," Alison told me. "That happened recently.)
Training Children To Speak
How do you get children to speak confidently and quote? Some grandparents look after children and have the patience to do this and find it fun.
One set of grandparents had to look after a grandchild who had chicken pox for a week, whilst both of the child's parents worked in their restaurant.
Have a quotation day. Feature their favourite books. For example, an Enid Blyton Day.
A Rupert Bear Day is fun. Rupert said, "If anybody ask for me, they'll find me in the lavatory."
to create a poem for an open mic night, use rhymezone. this will find you not only rhymes but also one of more syllable rhymes and slant rhymes, and even iambic rhymes (emphasis on first, and alternating syllables). Good for creating iambic pentameters.
To find a rhyme:
rhymezone.com
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Author of Quick Quotations.
Please share links to your favourite posts.
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