绕口令tongue twisters

Session Twelve

1. Tongue twisters

Hi,

and

welcome

back.

Again,

my

name

is

Paul

Gruber

and

we’ve

made

to

the

pronunciation

workshops--- Twelfth

Training

Session.

I

hope

that

you’ve

begun to notice some really good improvements in your speech.

I also hope that these sessions have been giving you a bit more confidence

when you speak English. Today,

we’re

gonna have some fun; we will work

with English Tongue Twisters. Tongue twisters can be found in almost all

languages. They are sequences of words and phrases which are difficult to

pronounce

because

they

have

many

different

consonant

sounds

with

very

slight variations. There are a lot of fun in their perfect for practising some

of the learned techniques we have covered in this program. Tongue twisters

can be very tricky. They will force you to concentrate even harder on some

of the new sounds that you are learning.

I’ll

give them to you both slowly

and then a little faster. Listen carefully to my pronunciation, then pause the

video and then repeat them back.

Ok. This first one is called Fuzzy Wuzzy. In this tongue twister,

we’re

addressing F sounds /f/, W sounds /w/ as well as voiced Z sounds/z/. All the

voiced Z sounds are underlined to help you out a little bit. Here we go.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

Very good. Ok now pause the video here and practise it back. Now, I’

m going to give you the same thing a little bit faster. Here we go.

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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.

Fuzzy Wuzzy

wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

Very good.

Ok,

this

next

one

has

many

voiced

V

sounds

/v/.

V

sounds.

Don’t

forget

to

bite

your

lower

lip

and

feel

that

vibration

when

you

make

this

sound/v/, like that. First slow. Here we go.

Vincent vowed vengeance very viciously.

Now, a little bit faster.

Vincent vowed vengeance very viciously.

Good. This next one is called Peter Piper. It’

s one of the more famous

tongue twisters. You may hear this one before. There are many P sounds.

Before I begin, note the L sound in the word Pickled.

Don’t

forget to bring

your tongue up on that L. Keep your jaw open /l/, like that. Ok? Here we

go.

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,

How many peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Ok. Pause the video here and

then repeat it back. Ok, now I’

m gonna

do Peter Piper this time a little faster.

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,

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How many peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Very good. Ok, this next tongue

twister’

s

also well-known. It contains

SH sounds[

?

], S sounds /s/ as well as voiced Z sounds /z/. Also notice the

EE

vowel

sounds

in

the

word

Seashore

and

She.

It’

s

not

She[

?

].

It’

s

She

[?]

with that high EE vowel sound. Ok? Also remember the word Sure

and

Surely

are

both

pronounced

with

that

American

SH

sound[

?

].

Ok.

Here we go.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells.

So if she sells shells on the seashore,

I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

Very good.

I’ll

say that again a little faster now.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells.

So if she sells shells on the seashore,

I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

Ok,

this

next

one

has

many

W

sounds/w/,

many

CH

sounds [

?

] as

well

as

many

final

consonant

sounds.

Do

not

forget

to

bring

your

lips

forward on the word Wood. Keep it tight. Wood. Here we go.

How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck,

If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,

And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would

If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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