ENGLISH LESSONS

Tongue - Twisters/1

 

Tongue Twisters can be very simple:

 

 

• Red lorry , yellow lorry .

 

 

or quite complex:

 

 

• One old Oxford ox opening oysters

Two toads totally tired trying to trot to Tisbury

Three thick thumping tigers taking toast for tea

Four finicky fishermen fishing for finny fish

Five frippery Frenchmen foolishly fishing for frogs

Six sportsmen shooting snipe

Seven Severn salmon swallowing shrimps

Eight eminent Englishmen eagerly examining Europe

Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nectarines

Ten tinkering tinkers tinkering ten tin tinder-boxes

Eleven elephants elegantly equipped

Twelve typographical topographers typically translating types

 

 

or somewhere in between…..

 

 

• Round and Round the ragged rock

The ragged rascal ran

How many 'r's are there in that 

Now tell me if you can?

 

 

• She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore

The shells that she sells are sea-shells I'm sure

 

 

• Swan swim over the sea

Swim swan swim!

Swan swam back again

Well swum swan!

 

 

• There was a man called Michael Finnegan

He grew whiskers on his chin again

The wind came out and blew them in again

Poor old Michael Finnegan

Begin again!

 

 

Tongue - Twisters/2

 

 

• The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

 

 

• Does your shirt shop stock short socks with spots?

 

 

• A canner exceedingly canny

One morning remarked to his granny

"A canner can can anything that he can,

But a canner can't can a can, can he?"

 

 

• A Tudor who tooted a flute

tried to tutor two tooters to toot

Said the two to their tutor,

"Is it harder to toot

or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

 

 

• Which witch wished which wicked wish?

 

 

• Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.

 

 

• She sifts thistles through her thistle-sifter.

 

 

• Four fat frogs flying past fast!

 

 

• Barry's back bike brake block broke.

 

 

• Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

 

 

• Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

 

 

• I'd like a proper cup of coffee in a proper coffee cup!

 

 

• It's not the hunting on Hampstead Heath that hurts the horse's hooves, but the hammer, hammer, hammer on the hard high-road.

 

 

 

 

Tongue - Twisters/3

 

 

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;

Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

 

 

• If a dog chews shoes what shoes should he choose to chew?

 

 

• Three grey geese in the green grass grazing,

Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

 

 

• The third bird heard the shepherd's absurd words.

 

 

 

• Did Kitty wake the kittiwake or did the kittiwake wake Kitty?

 

 

• A tree toad loved a she-toad

Who lived high up in a tree.

He was a two-toed tree toad

But a three-toed toad was she.

The two-toed tree toad tried to win

The three-toed she toad's heart,

For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground

That the three-toed she toad trod.

But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.

He couldn't please her whim.

From her tree toad bower

With her three-toed power

The she-toad vetoed him!