Make a speech, be a better Actor

Hey lovely Student Actors Boys & Girls,

I know some of you won't be available next week. I will sms you guys about whether to have a 2-week break and come back on 6th July for our Sunday class or not. Or I might have an OPEN DAY ORIENTATION for new students next week. Current Student Actors can recommend our Acting Class to their friends who are interested to join, and get a discount on their next class. Please give me your feedback via sms.

Meanwhile, your next homework is to write a speech. No specific subject matter, it's entirely open topic. The objective of this homework is to gauge how well you are able to encapsulate what you've learned in our previous class. It's also to help you organise your train of thoughts in the context of being an Actor. Remember this process:

*FEELINGS> THINKING> WORDS.

Be clear and identify the various feelings you wish to express. Then organise these feelings in order of importance or the points you wish to highlight (thinking). Finally, put them down on paper and express them through words.

All these elements fall under the CLARITY segment of our ARTICULATION 3-parter.

In our next class, all student actors will present their speeches.

**ADDITIONAL NOTES for your reference:

SPEECH PRODUCTION
In linguistics (articulatory phonetics), manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound make contact. Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants. For any place of articulation, there may be several manners, and therefore several homorganic consonants.

SPEECH PERCEPTION
Speech perception refers to the processes by which humans are able to interpret and understand the sounds used in language. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonetics and phonology in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology. Research in speech perception seeks to understand how human listeners recognize speech sounds and use this information to understand spoken language. Speech research has applications in building computer systems that can recognize speech, as well as improving speech recognition for hearing