No matter how compelling your story is, if the audience can’t understand you, they’ll lose interest. A cork can help improve your clarity of speech.
Some people speak less clearly than others, and we all experience this shortly after getting up in the morning. You can sharpen your articulation and improve how clearly you speak with speech exercises. These exercises use specific words to train the muscles in and around your mouth. They also make a great warm-up before giving a presentation.
To make the exercise even more challenging, you can user the cork I gave you. In the video below, I’ll explain how it works:
To explain the exercise in the video, i used only the first three words from the list below. For the exercise itself, it’s better to use more. In this order, they’re very effective for improving your articulation. Practise them both with and without a cork:
pots and pans
squeaky puppets
pecking chickens
a pox epidemic
binding bands
flipping pancakes
paying a penalty on penalty day
bit by bit
big brown boots
butter before breakfast
better books than beer
diggy-dag, diggy-dog
tingling toes
tattered tights
pack up and leave
quick on the uptake
the captain of the packet boat
thumbed-through daily papers
cotton bathing suits
Finally, it’s also very effective to make your own list of words you often stumble over or that people frequently tell you they can’t understand. It’s best to practise those with and without the cork, too.