Long term readers will know that I advocate warming up your lip/face/jaw/stuff before you start to make your presentation; it makes your diction clearer, making you easier for your audience to understand you.
It’s particularly important to do this if
- you’re using microphones and so on
- your first language isn’t the one you’re presenting in
- your audience’s first language isn’t the one you’re presenting in!
So far so good.
But here’s a problem….!
Suppose you have had a bit of an accident over Christmas that resulted in an emergency trip to hospital with facial burns on Christmas Day, how would you do the warm up. This isn’t me, you understand, it’s a friend of mind. Honest.
I wouldn’t be so stupid as to get my face burned.
Honest.
But it pretty much puts a stop to the facial warm-ups and stretches I’d normally do! :(
