Monday, 20 May 2013

Year 6 Homework Week 3

"If you have an opportunity to use your voice, you should use it." Samuel L Jackson, Actor

Your homework for this week is to find out 1 or more facts about the human voice and add this as a comment to this blog post.

I look forward to finding out some interesting things about our voices.



41 comments:

  1. Every time a human being talks you move 100 muscles!

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    1. That's really cool

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    2. Good to know! Great fact!

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  2. Each spoken word or short phrase is accompanied by its own pattern of muscular movements.

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  3. The voice's tone shows if the speaker is happy, pleased, bored, hurried, angry, sad, scared or aggressive

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    1. And how were you feeling when you wrote this? I wonder if we could tell by the tone of your voice?

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  4. Many of the muscles used for swallowing are also used for talking !

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  5. The voice of adult men are deeper than the women because the man's larynx (synonym of throat) than that of a woman.

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  6. Your voice is an Insuterment that you can carry anywhere.

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  7. Your voice helps for talking and singing so it is kind of like an instrument.

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  8. Whispering may actually make your vocal folds work harder.

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  9. Here our some facts that i found out:

    Whispering may actually make your vocal folds work harder.
    When you sing no one else in the whole world can sing the same.
    When you sing and you here your voice it is different to what the people around you hear
    No two people in the world have the same singing voice (they could sound similar but they are not exactly the same)

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  10. Here facts that I found out:

    * Avoid foods that can cause you to experience an increase in nose and throat mucous while singing. These include dairy products such as milk or ice cream.
    * Adult men and women have different sizes of vocal fold.
    * The difference in vocal folds size between men and women means that they have differently pitched voices.

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  11. Women are thought to be more talkative than men, but males have been found to have a longer Maximum phonation time than females in some studies.

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  12. As a boy gets older, his voice gets lowered.

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  13. When a professional singer sing, they shouldn't drink milk or eat ice cream before you sing. Men and Women have different pitch voices. Screaming and shouting is not good for your vocal chords, but whispering actually can make your vocal chords work harder. Our voices shows our emotions, like being sad, happy, angry ... etc.

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  14. The voice has a biological clock and likes to be warmed up at the same time every day.

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  15. Yona says "did you know that every human's voice is different"!

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  16. For the boys they have a lower voice. I agree with Yona ever human's voice are different by different pitch and sound.

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  17. Did you know to produce a phrase, about 100 muscles of the chest, neck, jaw, tongue and lips must collaborate together. The more you speak more muscles are being used.

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  18. The first language was spoken about 2.5 million years ago.

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  19. 1)The boys voice seems to be lowered, however louder for girls at our age.
    2)People now have found out that 90% of people use there voices in everyday.
    3)Most people can be experienced in the head, in the ears, outside the head, in some other part of the body, or in the environment.

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  20. 1)The voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.
    2) If the human ear is within the range of the vibrations, a sound can be heard.
    3)When the vibrations are fast, the sound is high. When the vibrations are slow, the sound is low.

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  21. Your voice box vibrates when you speak.

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  22. Some voices sound like old men or weird voices. There are different generations so a child has a high voice but whereas an adults voice is not as high as childrens.

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  23. The voice is a muscle, and like any muscle in the body can grow and get stronger even into your 70′s when trained correctly.

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  24. Boy's voice is more incredible than girls. Boys can make more higher and lower voice than girls

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  25. Boy's voice are lower than girl's voice. During puberty the boy's voice could get very low!

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  26. Some facts I found:

    A person does not conciously think about stretching his vocal cords when he speaks.

    Controlling vocal cords and changing the pitch of one's voice is learned as an infant.

    The noise made by the larynx combined with the shape of a persons mouth gives each person a unique sounding voice.

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  27. Here's what I found!

    A simple "Hello" can transmit a lot of things. The voice's tone shows if the speaker is happy, pleased, bored, hurried, angry, sad, scared, aggressive or dominant and the intensity of these states; irony, affection, support or joke. The sense of a simple expression can be changed according to the rapidity of the movements and the fractions of seconds depending on how much the movement of different muscles lasts.

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  28. what I found out in internet

    human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Habitual speech average fundamental frequency ranges in 75–150 Hz for men and 150–300 Hz for women.

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  29. Alcohol, milk and coffee is bad for your voice!

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  30. Your voice is like a muscle, it can be trained to be really high or really low if you practice!

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  31. The human voice is the only instrument that cannot be seen or touch.

    The speech skill is a wonder. To produce a phrase, about 100 muscles of the chest, neck, jaw, tongue and lips must collaborate.

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  32. Your voice can go high low

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  33. The human voice is a dynamic instrument. It’s also the very first musical instrument that ever existed on Earth.

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  34. Your voice can go fast,slow,low and high

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  35. Girls smile more when they talk, so it is more like an invitation for the other person to interrupt them. On the other hand, for boys it usually has an opposite effect. Does that count as a fact about the voice or expression?

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  36. Your voice can go high and low

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  37. About 100 muscles of the chest, neck, jaw, tongue and lips must collaborate.

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  38. Your voice obviously makes a sound by the vibration of your vocal cords caused by air passing through the larynx bringing the cords closer together

    Raya 6V

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