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Even native English speakers can

find tongue twisters difficult.
However, they are a fun way to
practise your pronunciation.
Practise saying tongue-twisters out
loud. Instead of concentrating on
the speed, try saying them slowly
and correctly.

Tongue twisters are fun to say and

sometimes the tongue gets so
twisted that the mind skips and then
you laugh and then you try again and
again.
The point of tongue twisters is to
practice the mind and the tongue to
make them coordinated, and to make
it stretch just like a muscle, but a
mental kind of muscle.

If you are interested in refining your

tongues fine motor skills (so to
speak), get to the habit of learning
and reciting tongue twisters.
Eventually, not only will your mind be
able to immediately grasp
differences in the subtle changes of
spellings, but your tongue will follow
the dictates of your brain and what
will come out is a perfectly
pronounced word without having to

A big black bug bit a

big black bear,
made the big black
bear bleed blood.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

How much dew

could a dewdrop
drop if a dewdrop
did drop dew?

A flea and a fly flew up in a

flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in
the flue.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

I miss my
Swiss Miss.
My Swiss Miss
misses me.

Joyful Jane east Jello

and jellybeans
with Jimmy Jones.

How many cans can

the canner can if
the canner can can
cans?

There's no need to light a

night light
On a light night like tonight;
For a night light's just a slight
light
On a light night like tonight.11

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

She sells sea shells by the sea

shore.
The shells she sells are surely
seashells.
So if she sells shells on the
seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore
shells.
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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I thought a thought.
But the thought I
thought wasn't the
thought
I thought I thought.
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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An undertaker undertook to undertake

an undertaking. The undertaking that
the undertaker undertook was the
hardest undertaking the undertaker
ever undertook to undertake.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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Rural ruler, rural ruler, rural ruler,

rural ruler, rural ruler, rural ruler,
rural ruler, rural ruler, rural ruler,

Swift shift, swift shift, swift shift

Red bulb, blue bulb, red bulb, blue
bulb,
red bulb, blue bulb, red bulb, blue
bulb,
red bulb, blue bulb
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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Mr Knott and Mr Watt on the Phone

Hello?
Who's calling?
Watt.
What's your name?
Watt's my name.
Yes, what is your name?
My name is John Watt.
John what?
Yes.
... I'll call on you this afternoon.
All right, are you Jones?
No, I'm Knott.
Will you tell me your name, then?
Will Knott.
Why not?
My name is Knott.
Not what?
Not Watt. Knott.
What?
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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Santa's Short Suit Shrunk

I scream, you scream, we all
scream for icecream!
A big black bug bit a big black
dog on his big black nose!
Elizabeth's birthday is on the
third Thursday of this month.
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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If you notice this notice,

you will notice that this notice is not worth
noticing.
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!?

Love's a feeling you feel when you feel

you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt
before.
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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She sells sea shells on the

seashore.
The seashells she sells are
seashells she is sure.
The king would sing, about a
ring that would go ding.
Irish wristwatch
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought
Wasn't the thought I thought I
thought.
If the thought I thought I thought,
Had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn't have thought I thought.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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Will you, William? Will you, William? Will you,

William?
Can't you, don't you, won't you, William?

I wish you were a fish in my dish

The owner of the inside inn was inside his

inside inn with his inside outside his inside
inn.
Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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Six slimy snails sailed

silently.
I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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If practice makes perfect and perfect needs

practice, Im perfectly practiced and practically
perfect.

I feel a feel a funny feel a funny feel feel

I,
If I feel a funny feel a funny feel feel I.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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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.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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In shoulder surgery some surgeons sew soldiers'

shoulders.
If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.

Nope, an antelope can't elope with a cantelope.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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This is a story about four people

named Everybody, Somebody,
Anybody and Nobody. There was an
important job to be done and
Everybody was sure that Somebody
would do it. Anybody could have done
it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got
angry about that, because it was
Everybody's job. Everybody thought
Anybody could do it, but Nobody
realised that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed
Somebody, when Nobody did, what
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Anybody could have
done.

She sells seashells by the seashore. If

she sells seashells by the seashore,
where are the seashells she sells by
the seashore?

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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A problem of solving a problem is

not a problem, but when a
problem solves a problem without
any problem, then the problem is
not at all a problem.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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I wish to wish the wish you

wish to wish, but if you wish
to wish the witch wishes, I
wont wish the wish you wish
to wish.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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Betty bought a bar of butter,

but the butter that Betty
bought was bitter, so Betty
bought some better butter
and mixed it with bitter butter
to change the bitter butter
into better butter.

Ms. Liliana Lo Preiato

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