This document provides examples of different types of drills for speech practice, including word drills, sentence drills, tongue twisters, foreign language words, rhyming songs, and a speech choir creed. The drills progress in difficulty and include examples to practice pronunciation, enunciation, rhythm, and fluency in speaking. The document aims to provide structured exercises to help improve oral communication skills.

1. SPEECH
DRILLS
MARIA MARTHA MANETTE APOSTOL MADRID,
Ed.D .
Professor
Panpacific University North Philippines
Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, Philippines

2. Drill 1
Word Drill

3. Race, pave, shake
Bale, tale, whale
Bare, hare, mare
Task, Dan, lad
Call, halt, talk
Part, star, barn
Rain, praise, bait

4. Hail, pail, fail
Pair, hair, air
Haul, maul, cause
Raw, lawn, saw
Say, hay, day
Be, he, me
Here, mere, sphere
Bend, lens, tense
Cell, delve, shelves

5. Her, nerve, herb
Each, heave, lean
Thread, head, ready
Heal, meal, seal
Fear, gear, near
Earn, pearl, earth
Keep, sheet, tree

6. Heel, peel, reel
Beer, cheer, peer
Either, receipt
Few, pew, view
Freight, feint, vein
They, obey, convey
Pie, strive, arrival
Dig, ring, dish
Slight, child, thigh

7. Bill, fill, till
Fir, thirst, stir
Chief, niece, believe
Field, shield, yield
Tier, pier, fierce
Ago, no, so
Fox, hop, God
Long, born, cross
Bolt, toll, fold

8. Coal, boast, toast
Too, woo, zoo
Joint, choice, noise
Hood, book, good
Boom, fool, soon
Door, floor
Bout, doubt, cloud
Boulder, pour, four
Could, should, would

9. Raw, row
Annoy, joy, destroy
Muse, cur, during
But, hull, jump
Fry, apply, amplify

10. DRILL 2
Foreign Language
Words

11. Tete`-a-tete´ Private conversation; familiar interview or
conference of two persons.
Camouflage The method or result of concealing
personnel or equipment from an enemy by
making them appear to be part of the
natural surroundings.
Chanteuse A woman singer, especially a nightclub
singer.
Reservoir A natural or artificial pond or lake used for
the storage and regulation of water;
A receptacle or chamber for storing a fluid.
Fiasco A complete failure
Abattoir A slaughterhouse.
Entourage A group of attendants or associates;
a retinue.

12. Repartee A swift, witty reply.
Menu A list of the dishes to be
served or available for a meal.
Gourmet A connoisseur of fine food and drink.
Sauté To fry lightly in fat in a shallow open pan.
Coup de grace The blow that kills (usually mercifully).
Rendezvous A meeting at a prearranged time and place.
Lingerie Women's underwear.
Rouge A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the
cheeks or lips.
Façade The face of a building, especially the
principal face.
Champagne A sparkling white wine made from a blend
of grapes.

13. Chalet A wooden dwelling with a sloping roof and
widely overhanging eaves, common in
Switzerland and other Alpine regions; A
cottage or lodge built in this style.
Chic Conforming to the current fashion; stylish:
chic clothes; a chic boutique; Adopting or
setting current fashions and styles;
sophisticated: chic, well-dressed young
executives.
Buffet A counter or table from which meals or
refreshments are served.
A La Carte also à la carte; With a separate price for
each item on the menu.
A La Mode In the current fashion or style
Coquette A woman who makes teasing sexual or
romantic overtures; a flirt.

14. Vis-à-vis Face to face with; opposite to; Compared
with; In relation to.
Genre A type or class; category of artistic
composition, as in music or literature,
marked by a distinctive style, form, or content.
Liquor An alcoholic beverage made by distillation
rather than by fermentation .
Sachet A small packet of perfumed powder used
to scent clothes, as in trunks or closets.
Chemise A woman's loose, shirt like undergarment.
Bouquet A small cluster or arrangement of flowers.
Connoisseur A person with expert knowledge or
training, especially in the fine arts.

15. Finesse Refinement and delicacy of performance,
execution, or artisanship.
Crochet Needlework made by looping thread with a
hooked needle .
Faux Pas A social blunder.
Coup d'é·tat The sudden overthrow of a government by
a usually small group of persons in or
previously in positions of authority.
Milieu An environment or a setting.
Esprit de corps A common spirit of comradeship,
enthusiasm, and devotion to a cause
among the members of a group.

16. DRILL 3
Sentence Drill

17. 1. Black block of wood and pairs of socks
are in the sacks.
2. For what are the pen in the pan and
the gem in the jam.
3. Is it true Ric, that the rich in this area
are hard to reach.
4. Peggy’s piggy bank is on Billy’s belly.
5. The fool was full of delight as he
washed his suit full of soot.

18. 6. Paul and Pol found a ball and a bowl
inside a hole in the hall.
7. The person who lurked like a lark is a
person, isn’t he?
8. Ken, bring your cane down and yell for
the Yales.
9. Don’t fail to pull the pail full of paint,
Ted.
10. Big Vic is both a valet and a ballet
dancer.

19. 11. The thin tin sheets cannot be made
into sheaths.
12. There! Don’t you dare wipe off the
lather on the ladder.
13. Zed said, I see your not properly
written Zosimo.
14. Don’t shut the sun! Sit on your sheet
and have a tan.
15. Which witch wails like a whale.
16. Did you ever hate to hear the noise of
all those who ate their meals in the hall?

20. DRILL 4
Tongue Twisters

21. 1. A big black bug bit a big black bear,
made a big black bear bleed.
2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers, where is the peck
of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
3. Thomas Tattertoot took taut to tie ten
twigs to two tall tress.

22. 4. Double bubblegum bubbles double.
Non-double bubble gum doesn’t bubble
double.
5. A sniffer of snuff is enough for a sniff
for the snuffsnifeter.
6. Likeable Lilian loves lovely luminous
aluminum linoleum.
7. Around the rugged rock the ragged
rascal ran.

23. 8. Harry Hugh hid the heel behind the
high hill. If Harry Hugh hid the heel
behind the high hill, where is the heel
Harry Hugh hid?
9. I never felt feel flat like that felt feel.
10. Vern verse is well verse in every
wordy verb verse.
11. Military Malarkey makes monstrous
madmen into maligned martyrs.

24. 12. If a woodchuck would chuck wood,
how much wood would a woodchuck
chuck, if a woodchuck would? But if a
woodchuck would chuck wood, how
much wood would a woodchuck chuck,
if a woodchuck could and would chuck
wood?
13. Suzy Schell sells sea shells on the
seashore.

25. 14. Moses suppose his toeses are roses,
but Moses supposes amiss Moses
knowses histoesis aren’t roses as
Moses Supposes.
15. What whim led Whitey White to whittle
near a wharf where a whale wheel and
whirl?

26. DRILL 5
Speech Choir

27. A SPEECH POWER CREEDO
WE BELIEVE in the God-given creative
power of speech, in dynamism unending,
and in perfect self-expression; the
orderliness of ideas, the clarity of
thought, the sincerity of feeling, the
richness of visualization, and the perfect
coordination of speech and action.

28. WE BELIEVE in the internal development
and generation of confidence, in the
vibrance of personality, in the
manifestation of poise, and in the
fruitful rewards of mastered speech.

29. And WE BELIEVE that thru out god-given
power of speech, we will be heard. In
Being heard, we will be understood. In
being understood, we will be
followed.

30. We now become instruments of truth and
the “light of the “world”.
ANS SO IT IS.

31. DRILL 6
Rhyme Songs

32. TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

33. Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

34. Row row your boat
Row, row, row your boat
Gently Down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

35. Reference/s
Ursua, Leticia B. Simplified Speech Lessons in
English. Las Pinas City, Philippines: C.M. Valdez
Print and Sign, 2004.
Paterno, Adelaida. Handbook for Oral Readers of
English. Manila, Philippines: Rex Book Store, 2003.
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