8 September 2015

Tongue Twisters for English Learners



Tongue Twisters


 "A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose."

 
“A tricky frisky snake with sixty super scaly stripes.”

 
 Betty bought a bit of butter, but she found the butter bitter, so Betty bought a bit of better butter to make the bitter butter better.


Bill had a billboard.
Bill also had a board bill.
The board bill bored Bill,
So Bill sold his billboard
And paid his board bill.
Then the board bill
No longer bored Bill,
But though he had no board bill,
Neither did he have his billboard!
 

A bitter biting bittern bit a better biting bittern
And the better biting bittern bit the bitter biting bittern back.
Said the bitter biting bittern to the better biting bittern
“I’m a bitter biting bittern bitten back”


 Children chuckle cheerily.


Charles Dicken s has chickens.
 

Charlie chooses cheese and cherries.
 

Cheerful children chant charming tunes.
 

One must not touch the Dutch too much.
 

The child watched his teacher an d fetched him the chalk.
 



Charles and Richard chewed cheese an d chewed gum.

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
 

Charles is a cheerful chicken -farmer. He chuckles at the chance Of a choice chicken to chew for his lunch .
Mrs Chip is very old, an d when she settles down to stitch Unless she uses spectacles - she can not see which stitch is which.

Did Doug dig David's garden or did David dig Doug's garden?
Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn
  
Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas


Four furious friends fought for the phone
Five flippant Frenchmen fly from France for fashions


"Eleven owls licked eleven, little, liquorice lollipops."
 
"Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh."


Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
 
How was Harry hastened so hurriedly from the hunt?
In Hertford,Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen
 
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
 
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood"
 
"I can think of six thin things, but I can think of six thick things too."


I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
 
"If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?"
 
James just jostled Jean gently.
Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep.
 
Jean, Joan , George an d Gerald judged generally.


Jolly Jack an d joyful Jill jumping down the jagged hill.
 

John John son joined jealous Jenn y Jerry making apple-jelly.
 

Jane and Jen n y in their blue jackets are watching the jaguar in the cage.
 

It was a joy for Jack an d George, the German boys, to cross the large bridge before entering the village.
Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest.
My cutlery cuts keenly and cleanly.


Literally literary.
Larry sent the latter a letter later.
Lucy lingered, looking longingly for her lost lap-dog.

You know New York,
You need New York,
You know you need unique New York.


"Not these things here, but those things there."
 
“Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup."
 
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled
peppers Peter Piper picked? 
 
Pearls, please, pretty Penelope,
Pretty Penelope, pretty Penelope,
Pearls, please, pretty Penelope,
Pretty Penelope Pring. 

 
Quick kiss. Quicker kiss. Quickest kiss.

Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly...
 
Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

Reading and writing are richly rewarding.

 
 
Red leather, yellow leather...

 
Red lorry, yellow lorry...


Reading Bells ring rapidly an d reeds rustle round rivers.

 Rolling on the roaring river the rowing-raft rolled over.
 

As the roaring rocket rose, the restless mosters rollicked.
 

Rustle of trees an d ripple of rain , roaring of rivers across the plain .
 

Richard gave Robin a rap in the ribs for roasting his rabbit so rare.
 

Strawberries, raspberries an d redcurrants with real cream are really refreshing.
 

Richard is in the kitchen fetching some cheese for the children;
Rose has two red rulers from her friend in her room .

Rumbling in the chimneys, rattling at the doors, 

Round the roofs and round the roads the rude win d roars, 
Raging through the darkness, raving through the trees, 
Racing off again across the great, grey seas.

“She sells sea shells by the sea shore."
“The big bug bit the little beetle, but the little beetle bit the big bug back."

Sheila is selling her shop at the seashore
For shops at the seashore are so sure to lose
And she’s not so sure of
what she should be selling
Should Sheila sell seashells or should she sell shoes
 
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.

 

Six thick thistle sticks
Theophilus Thistler, the thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
The shrewd shrew sold Sarah seven sliver fish slices.
Sister Susie sat on the sea shore sewing shirts for sailors.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously,
For nobody's toeses are posies of roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be.


 Seven slick, slimy snakes sliding slowly south ward.

Seven teen slimy slugs in satin sun bonnets sat singing short, sad songs.


Seven ty-seven sea serpents swam hissing across the sea.


Six silent snakes slithering slowly southward.


Six silly sisters seil silk to six sickly seniors.


Six slippery seals slipping silently ashore.


 I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop

She sells seashells by the seashore.


Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of small-coal: 
Did Sammy Smellie smell a smell of small-coal? 
If Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of small-coal, 
Where's the smell of small-coal Sammy Smellie smelt?
 
There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

 
Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly in a thin tall tin.

Two toads, totally tired, trying to trot to Tewkesbury.
 

They threw three thick things.

 Three thrushes thrilled them.

Three Scotch thistles in the thicket.

The Catholic author went to the Orthodox cathedral. 

 Is this the sixth, the seventh or the eighth? 

The third Thursday of this month is the thirteenth. 

Theodore Thrustle threw thirty-three thimbles in to a thicket of thistles
 
When I went to Warsaw, I saw a saw that could out saw any saw that I ever saw. Now, if
you go to Warsaw and see a saw that could out saw the saw I saw, I'd like to see your
saw saw. 


Wee Willy Winkie went walking in the wet wood. 

We're washing with warm water.

The wild wind whipped Whit from the wharf. 

Warm, whispering winds fill woodland waves. 

I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
 
Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches
the pitcher who pitches the balls. Whether the temperature's up or whether the
temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the
pitcher are always around. The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches.
So whether the temperature's rises or whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just
watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls. 

 
If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
how do I understand that you understand. Understand!?


Esau Wood saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no
wood saw would saw wood. If Esau Wood
saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood, where is the wood saw
which would saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood.


 
Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
Vera valued the valley violets.

 "Zebra zig and zebra zag."

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