Grade 9 Drama: Body and Voice & Improvisation/Playmaking

Vocabulary flashcards covering voice production, vocal techniques, and playmaking intentions from the Grade 9 Term 4 worksheet memo.

Larynx

A hollow muscular organ located in your throat that forms an air passage to the lungs and holds the vocal cords.

Vocal Cords

Folds of the lining membrane (thin skin) of the larynx whose edges vibrate in the air-stream to produce the voice.

Resonating Chambers

Chambers or caves (including the back, chest, mouth, nasal cavity, and forehead) used to send sound to make it louder.

Modulating Your Voice

Ensuring that the pitch and tone match the character or message of what you are saying.

Stress

The emphasis that you put on a word or sentence, which can be shown by increasing voice volume or using a pause before the word.

Pitch

This is how deep or high you speak.

Loudness

The quality of being heard in a performance, achieved by using the correct breathing technique and resonators to help increase voice volume.

Tone

The mood or feeling communicated through the voice, which can be shown through pace, pitch, loudness, use of pauses, and use of emphasis.

Entertain

A light-hearted, fun improvisation intended to make people laugh or to entertain them.

Educate

An improvisation or play containing an educational message intended to teach people about something, such as the dangers of peer pressure.

Inform

Giving people information they need to know so that they can live better lives, such as how to eat healthy food to avoid getting sick.

Enlighten

Teaching people the right information when it has been badly taught, correcting a lack of understanding, or addressing myths believed over time that are not necessarily true.

Mobilise

Giving people information or showing them that they need to go out and do something about a problem, such as opening a soup kitchen for homeless people.

Target Audience

The people who you want to target with your message.