TONGUE TWISTERS (Trabalenguas)

LEARNING TONGUE TWISTERS

A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results that are humorous when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.

Procedure

• Write some English tongue twisters on the board or on pieces of paper to distribute to students. Ask them to read the tongue twisters aloud. Then faster. Then three times in a row. Here are some examples:  
  • She sells sea shells on the sea shore
  • A proper copper coffee pot
  • Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran
  • Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry
  • A big black bug bit a big black bear
  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

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STUDENTS PRACTICING

• They strengthen and stretch the muscles involved in speech. This muscle exercise leads to clearer pronunciation, clearer speech patterns, and helps rectify some of the hardest sounds for you. 
• They show you which sounds are difficult for you. 
• They are a great warm up.

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