Voice Conservation in Conversation

What's in this activity

• Talk for two minutes about your day. Whenever the voice starts to feel effortful, stop and start that sentence again more easily.
• Describe a place you go where everybody talks loudly. Plan out loud what you would do differently there.
• Tell me about a whole day, hour by hour, and mark the hours when you use your voice most.
• Explain how you would get a friend's attention across a noisy room without raising your voice.
• Talk about a practice, a rehearsal or a game you go to. Say where in it you could rest your voice instead.
• Describe your morning routine and say where a glass of water would actually fit into it.
• Have a conversation at the volume you would use at arm's length. Say how it feels after two minutes.
• Talk about a time your voice gave out. Say what you had been doing beforehand and what you did afterwards.
• Explain your voice plan to a partner as if they were your coach or your teacher.
• Describe what a quiet hour in your day would look like, and when you could realistically take one.