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Tongue Twister

What is tongue twister?? 

When most people think of tongue twisters a childhood image comes to mind: Attempting to recite a tricky rhyme or phrase as fast as possible without tripping over the verbal challenges and hurdles lurking within these tongue-tying sentences. 

In my English for Language Teacher’s class, we were required to conduct a tongue twister competition between groups of four. It is very fun and exciting. My group was challenged to recite these tongue twisters:

1^st tongue twister:

Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.

2^nd tongue twister:

Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

            

It was really difficult for me to say words which involved these alphabets including ‘f’, ‘r’ and ‘w’ ..

Actually, this activity was helping us to practice our pronunciation accuracy.

During the presentation session, there was very fun and enjoyable in our class. Everybody try and follow the tongue twister of the group presenter.  I think Nickelson’s group are very entertaning group because they perform their part of tongue twister with the cute acting. We really enjoy it. 


I, myself still need more practice to speak a good English as well as we know that speaking skill is one of the main skill in studying English. So, I need to practice more on tongue twisters so that I will be able to master good pronunciation in English.

Beside that, I would like to share an article about tongue twister entitled,    

"Top 10 Most Difficult Tongue Twisters"

10. Slit a Sheet but don’t say Sh*t!

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit.

And on a slitted sheet I sit.

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit.

The sheet I slit, that sheet was it.

9. Are you tutoring a tooter?

A tutor 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?”

8. The skunk on the stump stinks!

A skunk sat on a stump.

The stump thunk the skunk stunk.

The skunk thunk the stump stunk.

7. The witch did what with the watch?

Which witch wishes to switch a witch wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch?

6. A three-toed toad that lives in a tree!

A three-toed toad loved a two-toed he-toad that lived in a too-tall tree.

5. Did you bet for One-one or Two-two?

One-one was a racehorse.

Two-two was one too.

When One-one won one race,

Two-two won one too.

4. Is it your Joe or our Joe that has a banjo?

Our Joe wants to know if your Joy will lend our Joe your Joy’s banjo.

If your Joy won’t lend our Joe your Joy’s banjo,

Our Joe won’t lend your Joy our Joe’s banjo,

When our Joe has a banjo!

3. Are you plucking pheasants for fun?

I’m not the pheasant plucker,

I’m not the pheasant plucker’s son.

And I’m only plucking pheasants,

Till the pheasant pluckers come!

2. Fischer is a young fisher… got that?

There was a young fisher named Fischer,

Who fished for a fish in a fissure.

The fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in;

Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer.

1. Is the sheik sick or the sixth sheep?

The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

I got this article from 

http://www.tiptoptens.com/2011/11/25/top-10-most-difficult-tongue-twisters/

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