Public Speaking Worksheet: Clear Pronunciation

Public speaking lesson 6: Clear pronunciation · Set 362 · 40 questions

Speaker's tip (Beat by beat): Open your mouth, keep a steady pace and finish every word ending. Warm up with tongue twisters. Clap the syllables: speech (1), speak·er (2), mi·cro·phone (3), pre·sen·ta·tion (4), pro·nun·ci·a·tion (5). Silent letters: k in knife and knee, w in write and two, b in climb and debt, t in listen and castle, h in honest and hour, l in calm and talk, g in sign.

1. 1.🗣️ Saying “goin” instead of “going” is an example of… (a) a good pause (b) clear speech (c) dropping word endings (d) correct stress
2. 2.Which word has a silent h? (a) knit (b) honest (c) foreign (d) fasten
3. 3.🤫 Which consonant is silent when you say “hour”? (a) b (b) h (c) s (d) w
4. 4.Which word has a silent b? (a) walk (b) sword (c) glisten (d) climb
5. 5.🔤 Does chewing gum as you talk help clear speech or make speech unclear? (a) helps clear speech (b) makes speech unclear
6. 6.🔤 Does rushing long words help clear speech or make speech unclear? (a) helps clear speech (b) makes speech unclear
7. 7.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “microphone”?
8. 8.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “congratulations”?
9. 9.🤫 Which consonant is silent when you say “glisten”? (a) g (b) l (c) t (d) w
10. 10.🔤 Does mumbling into your chest help clear speech or make speech unclear? (a) helps clear speech (b) makes speech unclear
11. 11.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “gesture”?
12. 12.Which word has a silent l? (a) crumb (b) honest (c) hour (d) walk
13. 13.Which word has a silent l? (a) sign (b) cupboard (c) palm (d) crumb
14. 14.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “slogan”?
15. 15.🤫 Which consonant is silent when you say “knife”? (a) p (b) s (c) k (d) b
16. 16.🔤 Does a steady pace help clear speech or make speech unclear? (a) makes speech unclear (b) helps clear speech
17. 17.🤫 Which consonant is silent when you say “wrist”? (a) g (b) s (c) t (d) w
18. 18.🤫 Which consonant is silent when you say “cupboard”? (a) l (b) h (c) k (d) p
19. 19.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “important”?
20. 20.Which word has a silent l? (a) honest (b) aisle (c) climb (d) calm
21. 21.🔤 Does saying word endings help clear speech or make speech unclear? (a) helps clear speech (b) makes speech unclear
22. 22.🔤 Does tongue twister warm-ups help clear speech or make speech unclear? (a) makes speech unclear (b) helps clear speech
23. 23.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “competition”?
24. 24.📖 You are not sure how to say a name in your speech. What should you do? (a) mumble it quickly (b) ask and practise it (c) guess it on stage (d) skip the name
25. 25.Which of these makes speech unclear? (a) a steady pace (b) chewing gum as you talk (c) checking names first (d) tongue twister warm-ups
26. 26.Which of these helps clear speech? (a) mumbling into your chest (b) dropping word endings (c) a steady pace (d) chewing gum as you talk
27. 27.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “education”?
28. 28.Which word has a silent h? (a) two (b) knot (c) foreign (d) hour
29. 29.Which word has a silent b? (a) reign (b) glisten (c) crumb (d) receipt
30. 30.👅 What is a tongue twister used for in speaking practice? (a) warming up clear speech (b) learning new maths (c) making people sleepy (d) testing your hearing
31. 31.Which word has a silent w? (a) honest (b) answer (c) reign (d) cupboard
32. 32.Which word has a silent h? (a) lamb (b) rhino (c) wrist (d) listen
33. 33.🔤 Does checking names first help clear speech or make speech unclear? (a) helps clear speech (b) makes speech unclear
34. 34.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “practice”?
35. 35.🔤 What is a clear way to say a long new word? (a) skip it (b) say it in one rush (c) break it into syllables (d) whisper it
36. 36.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “conversation”?
37. 37.Which word has a silent s? (a) half (b) aisle (c) honest (d) write
38. 38.🤫 Which consonant is silent when you say “comb”? (a) h (b) t (c) b (d) w
39. 39.Which word has a silent w? (a) write (b) climb (c) castle (d) knit
40. 40.👏 Clap and count: how many syllables (beats) are there in “speech”?

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