Articulation Exercises

Question 1

Stupid

Answer 1

Stupid superstition

Question 2

Real

Answer 2

Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall

Question 3

Rory

Answer 3

Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

Question 4

She stood

Answer 4

She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.

Question 5

Tie

Answer 5

Tie twine to three tree twigs.

Question 6

Through

Answer 6

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze.
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.
– from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss

Question 7

To sit

Answer 7

To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock
In a pestilential prison with a life long lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.
– by Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado

Question 8

But she

Answer 8

But she as far surpasseth Sycorax,
As great’st does least.
– Caliban describing Miranda in “The Tempest”, by William Shakespeare

Question 9

Give me

Answer 9

Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,
A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.
Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock,
But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.
None of your fantastic slack swap slop
From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.
Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock
With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock,
Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik’s sock
Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block.
Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop
Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.
– Common articulation warm-up for actors

Question 10

I bought

Answer 10

I bought a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and biscuits-mixed.