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15. With your teacher's help, draw the storyboard of your play. Make
visual guidelines to help you understand the dialogues.

• Include the character’s feelings in each situation.
• Draw the non-verbal language you will use to reinforce what you
are saying.
• After identifying how the character feels in each line, you must say
it with the right acoustic feature for it to sound natural. Observe the

marks below each dialogue.
o Double line means emphasis, so say those words louder.
o Dotted line is for speaking fast, like when you are in a hurry.
Remember
o Waves are for whispering.
When the actor
o Underlined sentences that end with an arrow denote identifies how the
high intonation, like when you ask a question. character feels in
• Check your character’s lines and underline them according performance looks
each situation, the
to this code. If there is something missing, create a new mark. more believable
and the character
appears alive to
the audience’s
For our dramatic reading
eyes.
16. Read the following chart about features of the voice. Underline the tips

you find useful. Then follow the instructions.

Tips for reading aloud

✔ Pitch. To understand this, think of music. It has high and low notes as do people's voices.
Everybody has a pitch range: the number of notes habitually used.

✔ Tone. It refers to the emotional content carried by our voices. It is not the words

themselves, but 'how' we say them.
. A person who puts very little energy into their speech
is described as being 'flat'. By contrast, someone who fills their speech with energy is

described as being 'exuberant' or 'enthusiastic'.
✔ Volume. How loudly or quietly you speak.

✔ Speed. How fast or slow do you speak? Can you vary the rate? Do you know the

effect of slowing down or speeding up deliberately? A faster speaking speed signals
urgency, excitement, passion or raw emotion.

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