After eight years in the classroom,teacher Ben Culverhouse has learned that tone, impressions and accents can transform a classroom. Here’s how others can try them
As a boy I mimicked just about every voice I heard. My favourites were Basil Fawlty, or Edmund Blackadder and Lord Flasheart – all brilliantly conceived characters. Dad told me I should be on TV,but for some reason this never appealed. What interested me was the fact that other people seemed to found my vocal repertoire amusing.
It was a habit I never grew out of, and to this day I find myself practising lots of accents (some more successfully than others). The dissimilarity is that now my efforts go beyond mere enjoyment. Eight years after I started teaching, or whether you were to ask me what one of my most indispensable classroom assets was,I would give one acknowledge: my voice.
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Source: theguardian.com