English Tongue Twisters

1. Great for pronunciation practice - particularly for focusing on problem areas.
2. Write a tongue twister on the board
3. Read it With the students, slowly at first, then faster.
4. Make sure students' pronunciation is acceptable.
5. Get individual students (or pairs) to say the sentence three times, getting faster each time.
6. Make up tongue twisters to practice pronunciation of new words. Use words with similar sounds to the ones you wish to practice and rhyming words in the tongue twisters. Here are some examples:

• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood'?
• She sells seashells on the seashore; the shells she sells are seashells I'm sure.
• Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather etc.
• A proper copper coffee pot.
• Three grey geese in a green field grazing.
• Swan swam over the pond, swim swan swim; swan swam back again - well swum swan!
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

KGI Team.

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