How many of you enjoys tongue twister? Either you love it or not, tongue twister can actually improve your English pronunciation a lot if you practise over and over. Here's several tongue twister to prove what I meant.
Mr. Fister's Tongue Twister
Read this story aloud. You won't believe what happens. Mr. Fister's sister Sue enjoys tongue twisters. She should! Sue sells sea shells. The store Sue sells sea shell in is near the seashore. It's simply called Sue's Seashore Sea Shell Store.
Naturally, Sue searches the seashore for the seashells she sells. Some say Sue's silly for selling sea shells in a seashore store. But Sue's smart. She smiles.
Sometimes, Mr. Fister helps his sister Sue search for sea shells on the seashore. He enjoys tongue twisters too. But he doesn't sell sea shells. He sells silk sheets. The store he sells silk sheets in is near Sue's Seashore Sea Shell Store.
It's called Mr. Fister's Seashore Silk Sheets Store. One day, Mr. Fister told his sister Sue, "I sold six silk sheets to six sheiks who came into my Seashore Silk Sheets Store!"
Mr. Fister's sister Sue shrieked. "Those must be the same six sheiks I sold sixty sea shells!"
"Shucks," said Mr. Fister, "the same six sheiks must have visited your Seashore Sea Shell Store after buying six silk sheets in my store." "Yesh," smiled Sue. Mr. Fister chuckled. "Selling shix silk seets to the shame six sheiks who bought shixty she sells seems to have twisted your tongue, my dear Shue!".
And that was Mr. Fister's tongue twister.
p.s. The words in bold show common mistakes made when reading the story
How's that? Need some more? Here goes :
Betty Botter had some butter,"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.If I bake this bitter butter,it would make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butter--that would make my batter better."So she bought a bit of butter,better than her bitter butter,and she baked it in her batter,and the batter was not bitter.So 'twas better Betty Botterbought a bit of better butter.
Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet, all she does is sits and shifts, all she does is sits and shifts.
Sixish! (say it 10 times)
Still need some more? Head on to :
The 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
While you're at it there's a movie showing a crazy and wacky Japanese Tongue Twister game. Boys? Are you up to the challenge?
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