Tuesday, August 21, 2007

On pronunciation



On pronunciation:
Can you say these tongue

twisters without getting
Your toungue tied-up.

If yes, prove it!

1- M- Minnie house makes many marsh mallows for Mickey Mouse to munch on.

2- Sh- - She saw shy sheep.
- She sells seashells on the seashore.

3- B- - Bugs black blood, bugs black blood.
- Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
- Betty botter bought some butter
‘’Oh!’’ she said, ‘‘this butter’s bitter, if I use this bitter butter, it will make butter
Bitter I need a bit of better butter, just to make my batter bitter’’
Betty bought a bit of better butter, now Betty’s batter isn’t bitter.

4- Oo- (As in ‘good’): how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could
Chuck wood?

5- i- (AS in ‘fish’): River Wytham, River Wytham.

6- U- (As in ‘university’): unique New York, unique New York.

7- E- (As in ‘bed’): Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.

8- OI- (as in ‘boy’): which noise annoys an oyster most, a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

9- S- : this snail is stale, its tail is stale and this is a stale tale.

10- Fl- : a fly and a flea in a flue were caught, so what did they do?
Said the fly, ‘’let us flee!’’
Said the flea, ‘’let us fly!’’
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

11- r- :- round the ragged rock, the ragged rascal ran.
-Roger rocket ran around the river and rented a raft to ride on.

12- f- : - Phineas Foster fishes for flat flounder.

13- v- : - Veronica Victor vowed to view the vanguard.
- When the very Venetian vet went to Venice, his voyage was viewed with
Vindictive regret by a Venetian vendor named Vemon.

14- ca- (as in ‘can’): canals in the Alps are comparable to a lot of canyon-like canals in
The Capital of Canada.

15- t and th- : The enthusiasm that Teresa Thomas told of took the terribly thin
Thirty-ish Turkish Thespian Thesus Thurber completely by
Surprise.


Prepared by: Nouamane ERRIFKI

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very impressive work Noaman. I appreciat your hard work writing yourself these articles. They come in very handy.
I liked the tongue twisters though I coundn't manage to pronounce them all!! The way they're categorised helps a lot in integrating them in the program as we can focus on each sound at a time. It thus becomes more than a game!

Keep up the good work...

AMBITIOUS_TEACHER said...

congratulations dear Noamane, you're really an artist; in the sense that the way you're choosing your words, your topics, the colours & even the way you're organizing the blog have an artistic touch. so congratulations for the hard work you've done. i deeply appreciate it & i like both of the tongue twisters & grouping students. wish u the best of luck & a good continium.
Omar FAJRI

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