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**Games & Activities**
**Tongue Twisters**
Tongue-twisters are sets of words usuallly starting with the same letter. This makes them hard to recite clearly. Actually, they're excellent for learning "articulation/enunciation/pronunciation." Drama students and radio announcers practice them to help learn clear speech. Three or four-liners are also said to cure hiccips if repeated three times in one breath!
*The shorter ones are usually said through three times, the quicker the better.*
One-liner Tongue-Twisters (below)
More Tongue-Twisters
Peter Piper's Alphabet
(the ultimate tongue-twister)
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
A big black bug bit a big black bear.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
Just how high would a horsefly fly, if a horsefly would fly high?
Around the rough and rugged rocks, the ragged rascal ran.
A box of biscuits, a box or mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.
She saw him saw six, slick, sleek, slim, slender, sycamore saplings.
Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt felt that felt like that felt felt.
Tom tried to tie his tie twice.
Pop and popped popcorn.
Greasy Granny grasped the great gray goose.
— from Children's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and Other Rhythms (McFarland Pub.) 1983 by Gloria T. Delamar