Tongue Twisters
Tongue twisters are word games which are fantastic to improve your pronunciation!
Tongue twisters are phrases that must repeat them as quickly as possible whilst still making sure you are speaking clearly.
Try repeating the following tongue twisters to yourself. If you aren’t sure about the sounds, search for pronunciation clips on the interne.
My favourite tongue twisters are:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
She sells sea shells on the sea shore. The shells that she sells are sea shells I’m sure. So if she sells sea shells on the sea shore, then I’m sure she sells sea shore shells!
Two toads totally tired trying to trot to Tetbury
Here is a link to some people talking about the ‘hardest tongue twister in the world’! The men in the video speak very quickly with American accents, so you may need to watch it a few times to fully understand what they are saying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDE2ynfVxqY
Here are some of the tongue twisters they mention in the video:
- Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat
- Top cop, top cop, top cop, top cop
- Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick
- Susie sits in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, where she shines, she sits.
- Pad kid poured curd pulled cod
Also, have a look at the Tongue Twister section on our Kids website: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/tongue-twisters
You can listen to lots of tongue twisters and practice saying them.
Cheers!
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