How to practice eloquence?

Eloquence is not born, it is trained hard. All eloquent orators and orators in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history. They all succeeded through hard training.

Practicing eloquence requires not only hard work, but also mastering certain methods. Scientific methods can make you get twice the result with half the effort and accelerate the formation of your eloquence. Of course, according to everyone's knowledge, environment, age, etc. There will be different ways to practice eloquence, but as long as you choose the method that suits you best, coupled with persistent hard training, then you will grow rapidly on the road of eloquence.

(1) speed reading method

"Reading" here means reading aloud, that is, reading with your mouth, not with your eyes. As the name implies, "speed reading" means reading quickly.

The purpose of this training method is to train people to articulate, pronounce accurately and pronounce clearly.

Methods: Find a speech or a beautiful essay. First bring a dictionary and a dictionary, find out the words and phrases you don't know or understand in the article, make them clear, make them clear, and then start reading aloud. Generally speaking, you start reading slowly, gradually speed up, read faster every time, and finally reach the fastest speed you can reach.

Requirements: Do not pause when reading aloud, pronounce accurately, enunciate clearly, and try to complete the pronunciation as much as possible. Because if you don't pronounce every sound completely, then if you speed up again, others can't hear you clearly, and it will soon lose its meaning. Our speaking speed must be based on clear articulation and clean pronunciation. We have all heard the explanation of sports program expert Song Shixiong, and his explanation is very "quick". Song Shixiong's explanation of "fast" is fast but not chaotic. Every word and every sound is pronounced very clearly and accurately without any ambiguity. We hope to achieve fast, that is, his fast, clear and accurate pronunciation, not for fast and fast.

The advantage of speed reading is that it is not limited by time and place, no matter when and where. You can practice as long as you have an article at hand. Moreover, it is not limited by personnel, and one person can do it independently without the cooperation of others. Of course, you can also find a classmate to listen to your speed reading practice and ask him to help you find faults in speed reading. For example, which word is not pronounced accurately enough, which place is not pronounced clearly, etc., which is more conducive to your purposeful correction and study. You can also record your own speed reading with a tape recorder, and then listen to it yourself to find out the shortcomings and make improvements. It would be better if there were teachers to guide us.

(2) Recitation method

Recitation method is different from the speed reading method we talked about earlier. Speed reading focuses on "fast" and reciting focuses on "accuracy". In other words, the speech or article you recite must be accurate, there must be no omissions or mistakes, and you must pronounce it accurately.

The method is: step one, first choose a speech, prose and poem that you like; The second step is to analyze and understand the selected materials and understand the author's thoughts and feelings. It takes some time, we need to analyze sentence by sentence, consider every word, feel the author's thoughts and feelings, and stimulate our own feelings; The third step is to make some artistic treatment on the selected speeches, essays and poems. , such as finding stress, dividing pauses, etc. , which is conducive to accurate expression of content; The fourth step is to recite on the basis of the above steps. In the process of reciting, you can also step by step. First of all, carry out "back" training. Is to memorize the article first. At this stage, emotional fullness is not required. As long as you can memorize skillfully. And in the process of reciting, we can further understand the style and rhythm of the works, and lay a more solid foundation for accurately grasping the works. Second, read aloud on the basis of reciting the article. Recite your speeches, articles, poems, etc. Recite aloud, always pay attention to the correctness of pronunciation, and with certain feelings. Third, it is the last step of this training, reciting with full emotion, accurate language and intonation.

The requirement here is to remember the article accurately and express the thoughts and feelings of the work accurately. For example, if we want to recite Gorky's Haiyan, we must first understand that it is a prose poem. It heralds the coming revolutionary storm and eulogizes the image of the proletarian soldier Haiyan. The whole prose poem is passionate, expressing the revolutionary's irresistible love and hate. Then when reciting Haiyan, you should grasp this tune. Of course, it is not enough just to grasp the tone of the work. We also need to do some technical processing on the work, such as dividing paragraphs, determining stress, pausing and so on. Plain, no waves, no ups and downs, and finally reciting will not succeed. Some people grasp the tone of Haiyan when reciting it, but don't pay attention to the skills of reciting it, so they set their mouths at the highest tone. As a result, when they reach the highest point of expressing their feelings, they can only scream and do their best. We say this is also because it is not accurate enough. If we have an accurate grasp of the development of the author's thoughts and feelings, we will not make similar mistakes.

(3) Sound practice methods

Practicing voice is practicing voice, practicing voice. In life, we all like to listen to those full, round and pleasant sounds, rather than dry, hoarse and dry sounds. So it is necessary for us to develop a good voice and a nice voice.

The way to practice your voice is: the first step is to practice your breath. As the saying goes, practice your breath first, then your voice. Breath is the driving force of human voice, just like the engine in a car, and it is the basis of voice. The size of breath is directly related to sound production. Insufficient qi, weak voice, excessive force, damage to vocal cords. Therefore, when we practice our voice, we must first learn to use gas.

Inhale: Inhale deeply, the lower abdomen contracts, the whole chest should be opened, and as much air as possible should be inhaled. When you smell a fragrance, we can experience the inhalation method. Be careful not to lift your shoulders when inhaling.

Exhale: Exhale slowly. Let the breath exhale slowly. Because when we speak, recite and debate, we sometimes need a long breath, and only by slowly breathing can we achieve this goal. You can basically close your teeth when you exhale. Leave a small gap to let the breath pass slowly.

Learn the basic methods of inhaling and exhaling. You can do this exercise outdoors and in the park every day. Take a deep breath and it will be effective for a long time.

Step two, practice your voice. We know that the sound source of human language is on the vocal cords, that is, our voice is produced by the vibration of the vocal cords by airflow.

Do some preparatory work before practicing pronunciation. First of all, relax the vocal cords, vibrate with some gentle airflow, make the sound a little prepared, make some gentle sounds, and don't shout with your mouth open, which will only destroy the vocal cords. Just like before we do strenuous exercise, we should do some preparatory actions, otherwise it is easy to strain our muscles.

The vocal cords are active, so we should do some preparatory activities in the mouth. We know that the mouth is an important buzzer for human beings, and the loudness and roundness of sound are directly related to the mouth, so don't underestimate the role of the mouth.

(4) Retelling method

Simply put, retelling is to repeat what others have said. This method is widely used in the classroom. For example, the teacher shows students a slide, and then asks them to retell the plot of the slide or the dialogue of the characters. The purpose of this training method is to train people's memory, responsiveness and language coherence.

The method is: choose an article with appropriate length and certain plot. It is best to read a narrative in a novel or speech, and then let the students who recite it better read it aloud. It's best to record it with a tape recorder, and then listen to it again and again. Until you can completely retell this work. When retelling, you can record the content of the first retelling, and then compare it with the original text to see how many times you can repeat it, repeat it again, and see how many times you can repeat all the content. This kind of practice is not only reciting, but also exercising the coherence of the language. It would be better if we could repeat it in front of everyone. It can also exercise your courage and overcome your nervousness.

This requires us to repeat the basic plot at the beginning and repeat the meaning in our own words when remembering the original words; The second retelling requires not only retelling the plot, but also retelling a certain character language or description language; When retelling for the third time, repeat the characters' language and the basic description language basically and accurately, and gradually improve the requirements. Before this kind of exercise, it is best to put forward a specific requirement according to your own actual situation and the situation of the selected article. For example, if you choose an article with 10 sentence, you should repeat the basic plot and several key sentences the first time. The second time should be able to repeat 5 ~ 7 sentences; The third time you should be able to repeat 8 ~ 10 sentences. Of course, the faster you make progress, the stronger your language coherence and memory will be.

(5) Imitation method

(1) Imitate the specialty. Find a person with strong oral expression skills in life, let him say some of the most wonderful words, and record them for you to imitate. You can also record the voices of your favorite announcers and actors and imitate them.

② Theme imitation. A few good friends are together. Ask a person to tell a short story and humor first, and then everyone takes turns imitating it to see who imitates it the most. In order to stimulate enthusiasm, you can also use the form of scoring. Let's grade together and praise the most successful imitators. This method is both simple and interesting. In class, between classes and after class. It only takes three or four people to finish it. It should be noted that everyone's short stories and humor must be fresh and interesting, and everyone loves to listen and learn. Moreover, we must make some preparations before speaking, be sure to speak accurately, vividly and vividly, and never bring something wrong, otherwise the imitator will make mistakes and harm others.

③ Imitate at any time. We listen to the radio, watch TV and watch movies every day, so you can imitate with the announcer, performer and actor at any time, pay attention to his voice, intonation, manner and movements, and imitate while listening and watching, and your spoken English will improve over time. And it will increase your vocabulary and your literary knowledge.

(6) Description method

When we were young, we all learned to speak by looking at pictures. The way of description is similar to this kind of talking by looking at pictures, except that we need to look at not only the pictures in books, but also some scenes, events, things and people in life, which requires more than talking by looking at pictures. Simply put, description is to express what you see, things, things and people in descriptive language.

Descriptive method can be said to be a step further than the above training method. There are no ready-made speeches, essays, poems, etc. For your practice materials, but you need to organize your own language to describe them. Therefore, the main purpose of description training is to train students' language organization ability and language organization ability.

No matter speech, speech or debate, you need to have strong language organization ability. Without this ability, it is impossible to have the mouth of Zhang Xuanhe. The ability of language organization is a basic skill of oral expression.

Its method is to describe a painting or a scene. The first step is to observe the object to be described. For example, the object we want to describe is "a small lake in autumn", so we should observe what is around this lake, and are there any trees? Is there a rockery? Is there a gazebo? There are tourists? What are trees like? What are the mountains like? What does the pavilion look like against the backdrop of lakes, mountains and trees, and what kind of mood should tourists feel at this time of autumn? All this requires you to observe with your own eyes and experience with your heart. With this observation, your description is based. The second step is description. When describing, we must grasp the characteristics of the scene and describe it in order.

(7) Role-playing

Role-playing is to play different roles in a work like an actor. Of course, this play is mainly about language.

The method is as follows:

(1) Choose a novel and drama with plots and characters as the material.

② Analyze the selected materials, especially the language features of the characters.

(3) According to the number of characters in the works, find classmates and play different characters respectively. See who can play their role most accurately.

④ You can also play a variety of roles and cultivate your language adaptability.

The purpose of this kind of training is to cultivate people's language adaptability, personality, and appropriate expressions and movements.