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[chaz47]

Here's a couple few tongue twisters I found on wikipedia. These may not be appropriate in your classroom, but if you can get away with it you'll probably make the kids giggle a bit.

Don't get fired.



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Some rhyming tongue-twisters (also used as diction exercises):

To sit in solemn silence on a dull dark dock
In a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.
(from The Mikado)

I am the very model of a modern major general
I've information animal, vegetable and mineral
I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order catagorical
(from The Pirates of Penzance)


Some tongue-twisters are specifically designed to cause the inadvertent pronunciation of a swearword if the speaker stumbles verbally (see w:spoonerism):

I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate,
And I'm only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son,
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.

Another variation:
I'm a mother pheasant plucker. I pluck mother pheasants. I'm the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker Who ever plucked a mother pheasant.

Another variation
I'm not the mother pheasant plucker
I'm the mother pheasant plucker's son
I'm the pleasantest son of a mother pheasant plucker
who ever plucked a mother pheasant
and I'll be plucking mother pheasants
until the mother pheasant plucking's done

One sock cutter he cuts socks,
two sock cutters they cut socks,
three sock cutters they cut socks,
they all cut socks together.

[Slaps]

Red lorry
Yellow lorry
(Repeat over & over, and try to go as fast as you can)

[Confused Canadian]

More tongue twisters than you will ever need...

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/

Enjoy!

[kat2]

My kids love " how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood." They can't say 4 of the words, but they still love to try.