Tongue Twisters

Thanks all. I did a competition today - they had to take a list of tongue twister and 'perform' them in front of the class as best they could. It was very funny for all and not a little surreal...! Then they got a mark out of ten from everyone watching so we had a first, second and third. Some of the students were really good although I had to explain what a woodchuck was - wasn't sure myself but settled on 'an animal who lives in the forest and eats trees.' Then explained what a forest was. What is a woodchuck then? I'd love to give an accurate definition............ Rachel - I remember unique New York from my drama course. How could I have forgotten it as a vocal warm up...

Quite brill! That's virtually impossible that last one moya. Ah I can see three long days of tongue twister fun on horizon....

Strangely one word that all the students struggle with no matter where from is: "crisps". Virtually everyone attacks it as "cripps" or "crispis". *remembering....."not chips. No in America you say chips..." flashback ends*

And I'm only plucking pheasants 'Til the pheasant plucker arrives.

red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry. happy millenium, twisting my melon, hippy millenium. Nobody I was with on the millenium eve could say the word millenium.

There's always the old standbys: She sells seashells by the seashore. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said "this butter's bitter, if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter" So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and she put it in her batter, and it made her bitter batter better. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He'd chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Anyway, that's all I could come up with off the top of my head! And all I know on the subject... Good luck! :)

Thanks Funky & Kathy - I'm going to offer a prize for the best reciter of tongue twisters (give em less homework/tests etc.)

Funky, in my experience, nobody can either say or spell the word millenium

Millennium obviously :) iceman

Excellent - I use T.Ts alot for drama lessons, so thanks all for new ones. Only ones left: Unique New York Rubber baby buggy bumpers A ship set sail 1 Smart fellow he felt smart. 2 smart fellows they felt smart. 3 smart fellows they all felt smart together (good use of 3rdperson sing and pl here too!) I have taught EFL and now teach French as well Can't think of any more

I'd rather have my pink panties perforated by Percy the proud prince of prussia, than have my brown backside batttered and bruised by the bouncing balls of Boris the butch bum-boy from Bhagdad. Black thoap, White thoap and Abernethy bithcuits.

brings back memories of my English teaching days in Japan- Japanese students can never do "red lorry, yellow lorry".. teachers in a bad mood after 7 hours of saying "this is a table, that is a chair" following the text book you weren't allowed to deviate from, used to ask them to do it, then fall about laughing. You go a bit insane if you teach beginners the same thing for hour after hour after hour..

a flea and a fly in a flue were wondering what they should do. said the flea 'let us fly!' said the fly 'let us flee!' so they flew from the floor of that flue.

I'm not a pheasant plucker I'm a civil engineer so if you want any plucking done at all then I suggest you look elsewhere. She sells seashells on the seashore It's a scam, they're free. Seriously, the hardest one I've ever tried is Bugs black blood (repeated 10 times)

*sticks tongue out at iceman*

Spot the vowel..... strč prst skrz krk. literal translation: "stick your finger through your throat" or, this one causes great hilarity at parties in prague where my horrid czech friends force me to say it; třistatřiatřicet stříbrných křepelek přeletělo přes třistatřiatřicet stříbrných střech. It means: "Three hundred and thirty three silver quails flew over three hundred and thirty three silver roofs" *wonders why i am going there*

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son...Um, I forget the rest

Are you copper-bottoming 'em pans? No, I'm aluminiuming 'em, mum.