Speech & Communication Lessons
Clear and articulate speech is an invaluable tool for improving confidence, communication, and overall personal development.
How can this help me?
It can help you bridge the gap between your language skills and academic and social success. Alongside this, it can enable, develop and refine your public speaking and communication skills, helping you to effectively communicate your ideas and opinions.
You will see improvement in your vocabulary, intonation, pronunciation, and expression. You will also better understand and use nonverbal communication, such as body language and gestures. Furthermore, you will be confident and articulate in your verbal and written communication.
Improve your Language Skills
Improve Critical Thinking
Speech and communication tuition can help you to develop your critical thinking skills, as well as the ability to analyse, comprehend, and evaluate information, along with taking part in discussion and illustrating your point of view or opinion.
Improve Verbal & Non-Verbal Communication
Boost your Confidence
It can help you to overcome social anxiety, by increasing your self-awareness and confidence. Taking control of your breath and understanding how to breathe will help you when under pressure and in stressful situations.
Speech and communication tuition can equip you with the skills you need to become a successful communicator in all aspects of your life.
At Voice Vibes, Lynne offers a unique and transformative approach to speech and communication. Through working with text, you will develop skills in speech and performance, voice projection, breathing and relaxation, facial expressions, body language and gestures, along with eye contact and engaging with an audience.
You will incorporate literary forms such as prose, poetry and play extracts in a range of styles and from different periods and cultures into your work, as well as having the opportunity to pick your own topic. From this, you will develop practical creative tasks such as talks, speeches and presentations, expanding and expressing your own ideas. Alongside this, skills in listening, organisation and critical thinking will be cultivated, as well as being able to work to deadlines.
If you wish to go in for an exam, the current syllabus is
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Young people who wish to take speech & communication lessons need to be a minimum of 8 years old.
Speech & Communication Lesson Format
All Speech and Communication Lessons at Voice Vibes are tailored to your needs and may include:
Body Warm-Ups
Warm-ups are designed to literally warm-up your body. They will include tongue exercises, neck stretches, shoulder rolls, full body stretches and face and jaw massage.
Voice Warm-Ups
These are designed to warm up your voice and keep your vocal cords in pristine condition. They will include relaxing your larynx, silent breathing, humming and sound warm-ups.
Reading Out Loud
You will read an excerpt from a book of your choice. This will help you with understanding the text as well as improve pronounciation, fluency and confidence when speaking. Further to this, reading out loud will improve your vocal projection and help with public speaking, thus boosting confidence.
Poetry, Prose, Monologues & Presentations
Alongside reading an excerpt from a book out loud, you will work on either poetry, prose, a monologue, a presentation, or a combination of texts depending on your goals. This will help you to become more familiar with the text and you will be able to bring out the true emotion and importance of the work.
In order to achieve your goals, you will need to commit to regular speech and communication practice between lessons.