LESSON 7 · From Mumbling to Commanding
Your Pace-Pause-Punch Workout
Build rhythmic mastery with these daily drills:
- Pace variation: read a paragraph at three speeds — slow (100 wpm), medium (150 wpm), and fast (push past your comfort, ~180+ wpm)
- Pause practice: deliver three sentences with a full two-second pause between each, and resist filling the silence
- Punch drills: take one sentence and say it five times, hitting a different word each time
- Recording review: listen to a one-minute clip and mark where pace, pause, and punch worked versus where they fell flat.