Vowel Pronunciation Exercises for Story Telling

At the beginning of the lesson we were focusing on pronouncing vowels and we were doing them frenetically.  We were put into a line and each person would pronounce a vowel (A, E, I, O, U). Once we had pronounced them in order at a faster pace we then tried to do a “tongue twister”, but still pronouncing them in the correct way. Broke it down into sections so “Susie saw Sylvester” “stack silver saucers” “side by side”. Eventually we all were put into groups of 3 and were given 10 seconds to decide how we would say this tongue twister and then the other groups would try and guess what the emotions were. We then attempted the “red lorry, yellow lorry”. Even though it’s a lot shorter than the other “twister” , it more easier to get your words muddled up as “yellow” and “lorry” makes your tongue go rather lazy and wants to make you pronounce it as “lolly”. We then watched clip from cbeebies in which the presenter spoke to us (the audience- aimed at 4 to 8 years old?) in a soft tone and read a story. By doing this it allowed us to have an idea on the tone we should talk to the children we will be doing the story telling unit with. Then afterwards we had to try and make up a story (improvised) by walking around the room but having to pronounce the words correctly and make it in the correct tone (as if we was talking to the younger ages).