TONGUE TWISTER EXERCISES

TONGUE TWISTER EXERCISESTongue twisters provide an amusing supplement to the speech training charts, but their effectiveness should not be underestimated:1. Whisper the twisters

2. Speak them with the teeth clenched (this makes the tongue and lips work more vigourously)

3. Speak them with good tone and firm articulation slowly but clearly

4. Speak the twisters more and more quickly still retaining clarity of articulation.

_____________BBetty Botter bought some butter

But she said This butters bitter.

If I mix it with my batter it will make my batter bitter.

So she bought some better butter

And she mixed it with her batter

And she made her batter better.

BBibby Bobby bought a bat

Bibby Bobby bought a ball

With that bat he banged the ball

Banged I bump against the wall

But so boldly Bobby banged

Soon he burst the rubber ball.

Boo, sobbed Bobby, goodbye ball

Bad luck, Bobby, bad luck ball

Now to drown his many troubles

Bibby Bobbys blowing bubbles.

CHCharlie is choosey when choosing his cheeses

And cheese is a challenge when Charlie arrives

But Charlie is charming and chooses a Cheddar

He chills it and chips itAnd chops in some Chives.DDonald the duck liked to dance a jig daily

Donald the duck liked to dress up to dine

Dutifully Donald would wear his white dicky

And then with the lady ducks would waddle in line.F-VFat men are funn men, thin men are not.Fat men are filled with joy, thin men say rot

Very very few of them feel the call of spring

Only one or two of them ever learn to sing.

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GA gregarious gaggle of gees

Giggling on towards Greece

When a goose with both goggles and candour said

Why dont you land in Uganda instead?

HHenry Hall hops on his heels

Hopping on heels how horrid it feels

Hopping on heels isnt hopping at all

Then we not hop properly Henry HallKA cricket critic met with a critical crisis.KKenneth the coalmans a comical cove

Carting his coals to Kew

He carries his sacks from a kiosk in Hove

In a sack on his back, painted blue.LLucy and Lily and laconic Bill

Lived all together alone on a hill

Luch and Lily would only eat lamb.

Billy liked rabbit and blackcurrent jam.

Lucy and Lily and laconic Bill

Liked to lie down after eating their fill.MMany mighty men making momey in the moonshine

Many mighty men making money in the sun

Many were the times they made money in the moonshine

Many many more did they labour in the sun.M-NAre you copper bottoming em my man?

No, Im alluminiuming em mum.NgSending a ring through the post was plain sailing

Sending a ring through the mails was just fine

Writing a note to his girl friend and hailing

A taxi to take it to Ealing on time.PPeter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper

A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper

Wheres the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.

P-BPeggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock,

The Clerk to the Magistrates called.

Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock

His voice down the corridor bawled

Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock

Their Workships ask that you attend.

But reply came there none from poor Peggy

For she had gone clean round the bend.

P-GFive plump peas in a peapod pressed

One grew and two grew and so did all the rest.

Grew and grew and grew and grew

And grew and never stopped

Till they grew so plump and portly

That the peapod popped.

R-L-YRed leather, yellow leather

Red lorry, yellow lorry.RAround the rugged rock rutherless Robert ran

He ran around and round the rock until he met a man

The man was really very rude and he to Robert said:

Run right down to Richmond Park

Away then Robert sped.SSlowly and silently the stately ship

Slid down the ships shipway.

S-SHTo sit in solemn silence in 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.

S-SH-Z Sheila is selling her shop at the seashore

For shops at the seashore are sure to lose

At her shop on the seashore

Should Sheila sell shellfish?

Or should she sell sandpaper, sherry and shoes?

STSThere were three ghosts

Sitting on posts

Eating buttered toasts

And licking their fists

Right up to their writs

Werent they beasts?SZMoses supposes his toess are roses

Moses supposes erroneously

Moses supposes his toess are roses

Yes, Moses supposes his toess to be.TTommy and Tina were tattooed in Tooting

But Tommy was only tattoed on his toe,

So Tommy told Tina where Tommy was tattooed

But Tina said Tommys tattoo wouldnt showTA tutor who tooted the flute

Tried to tutot two tooters to took

Said the two to the tutor

Is it easier to toot

Or to tutor two tooters to toot?

THTheo Thistler, the thistle sifter,

Sifted a sieve of sifted thistle

Into a sieve of unsifted thistles

Then sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles

Into a sieve of sifted thistles

For Theo Thistler was a thistle sifter.

THThe Lieth Police dismisseth us

The Lieth Police are thorough

The Lieth Police admitteth us

Into their lawful borough.

********************A - Z Enunciation Exercises

Tongue Twisters to Practice Elocution

By Wade Bradford, About.com Guide

Young performers face several challenges. For one, they must memorize lines. For another, they must speak loud enough for Grandpa to hear them in the 22nd row. But perhaps the most daunting challenge is learning how to slow down and enunciate.

No vocal warm-up is complete without reciting a few enunciation exercises. With that in mind, I present 26 fundamentally fun tongue twisters. Each one provides an "elocution work out." Take a few for a test drive. Say each line three or four times. But remember, do not worry about speed. Focus on speaking clearly, even if you must over enunciate at first.

A - Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

B - Big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled black blood.

C - Can I cook a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot?

D - Don't doubt the doorbell, but differ with the doorknob.

E - Eight gray geese in a green field grazing.

F - Fine white vinegar with veal.

The free thugs set three thugs free.

G - Grab the groundhog from the glazed grass.

Grey geese in a green field grazing.

H - High roller, low roller, lower roller.

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

I - Inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping.

I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch

J - Jingle jungle jangle joker.

K - Knit kilts for nasty cold nights.

L - Little lucky luke likes lakes, lucky little luke likes licking lakes

M - Monkeys make monopoly monotonous.

N - The Next nest will not necessarily be next to nothing.

O - Octopi occupy a porcupine's mind.

Only royal oily royal oil boils

P - Peter Prangle, the prickly pear picker, picked three perfectly prickly pears.

A proper copper coffee pot.

Q - Queen Catherine wakes the cat, and the cat quietly cries.

R - Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers!

Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

S - Some shun sunshine. Do you shun sunshine?

Six stick shifts stuck shut.

T - Three thick thistle sticks.

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

U - Unique New York, Unique New York, Unique New York.

V - Venti, Grande, Tall - Very Grand Words for Large, Medium, Small.

W - Will's wetsuit is round and wet and rough and wide and ready to go on a watery ride.

Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

X - Xylophones exist or so existentialists insist.

Y - Yoda met a Yeti on the Plains of Serengeti.

Z - Zoologists illogically love to read astrology.

VOCAL WARMUP TONGUE TWISTERS

These exercises are more than just fun.Always warm up all aspects of your vocal instrumentincluding "the lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue."

These first two are my overall favorites.They are particularly good for achieving a crisp, frontal placement of consonants

The lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue,the tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips.

A box of biscuitsA box of mixed biscuitsAnd a biscuit mixer

S and SH

Should saucy sharks seek shelter soon?

The sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick.

She sits and shines shoesAnd when she sits she shines all day

A skunk sat on a stump.The skunk thought the stump stunk.The stump thought the skunk stunk.

Sister Suzy's sewing shirts for soldiersSuch skill at sewing shirts my shy young sister Suzy showsSome soldiers send epistlesSaying they'd sooner sleep on thistlesThan the short serge shirts for soldiers shy young sister Suzy sews.

Sister Susie went to seaTo see the sea, you see.The sea she saw was a saucy sea,A sort of saucy sea saw she.

Crisp B and BL

Barren Beacon Beckons Bacon Baron

Good Blood, Bad Blood, Good Blood, Bad Blood, etc.Red Blood, Blue Blood, Red Blood, Blue Blood, etc.

A big black bug bit a big black bearand the big black bear bled blood.

This black bug bled blue-black bloodwhile the other black bug bled blue.

Better Botter bought some butterBut she said this butter's bitterIf I put it in my batterIt will make my batter bitterSo she bought some better butterPut it in her bitter batterAnd it made her bitter batter better

When tweedle beetles battleWith paddles in a puddleThey call it a tweedle beetle puddle paddle battle.Dr. SeussConsonants with Vowel Shadings

I carried the married character over the barrier.

The foreign authorities put Dorothy in an orange forest.

Yes, she is pure, but so is Mrs. Muir. You're just unsure.Please do not lure me with your unsure cure.

The leath police dissmissith us, and that sufficeth us.

Subtle Difference Between W and WH

Which witch whined when the winewas spilled on the wailing whale?

"I don't care a whit for your wit or whims," said Warren Wharton.

Whether the weather be coldOr whether the weather be hotWhatever the weather we'll weather the weatherWhether we like it or not.