Icebreaker: Tongue Twisters
For today's icebreaker, we will be taking a look at Tongue Twisters! We are going to practice our speaking skills to improve our English pronunciation. As you are reading, pay attention to the way your mouth is moving, what your lips are doing, and where your tongue is positioned.
This exercise will be challenging... but also very fun.
You will attempt to read each word slowly at first to practice proper pronunciation. Consider the number of syllables each word has. When you are ready, try to read the Tongue Twister as fast as you can!
The Tongue Twisters:
- The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
- Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug – although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty-year-old thug thought of that morning.
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? - If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
- How can a clam cram in a clear cream can?
- She sells seashells by the seashore.
- Why were Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier reared wrongly near a woeful, rural brewery?
Vowel Based Tongue Twisters:
Eddie edited Earl’s easy music.
Gooey gopher guts.
Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.
Annie ate eight Arctic apples.
An orange oval spooks the odd operative.
An awful aardvark and an aching ape ate an antelope.