Tongue Twisters - Скороговорки

Tongue Twisters

[eı]

Take a cake, Kate.

Jane and Dake are on the lake.

Mr. Grey is waiting at the railway station for a train.

Rain, rain, go away,

Come again another day!

Kate made a face because Mate ate the cake Kate has made.

Jane ate a cake on a plate.

Dave saw a snake on a lake.

[æ]

A cat

A fat cat

A fat black cat

Mack is a fat black cat

My cat is black

My cat is fat

My cat likes rats

Rats are fat

A fat cat sat on a black mat and ate a fat rat.

A fat rat sat on a black hat.

A happy cat with a fan can clap a crab with a cap in the bag.

The crab is in the black cab.

Ann has a hat in her handbag,

Dan has a cap in his backpack.

If Ann didn’t have the hat in her handbag,

Would Dan have the cap in his backpack?

[a:]

Barbara / Mark Barton is art and part of the party.

Mark likes playing the guitar in the park.

Cars can’t be parked at the park after dark.

The teacher often asks the class to make masks.

The students like the task.

Mark’s car’s faster than Bart’s car.

Bart’s car’s smarter than Mark’s car.

Mark parks his car in a car park,

Bart parks his car in a dark park.

If Mark didn’t park his car in the car park,

Would Bart park his car in the dark park?

Sharks can’t bark.

Sharks can’t bark in the park.

Sharks can’t bark in the dark park.

[ɛǝ]

dont dare mess with a fair hair girl

I have a fair hare and bear

[ou]

Rose, close your book and go home.

Rose opened her notebook and wrote a note.

[ɔ]

Bob, put the dog and the frog into the box.

Rob, put the doll and the ball on the floor.

Donna`s likes not dogs but hot dogs.

Bob got a hot pot with a frog

On the top of the log

In a fog of the bog.

Rob often drops his wallet in shops,

Tom often drops his wallet at stops.

Dolly wants to watch novels on TV,

Polly wants to watch horrors on TV.

Knott and Shott fought a duel.

Knott was shot and Shott was not.

It was better to be Shott than Knott.

[ɔ:]

Paul is forty and he is very sporty.

All children like playing with the ball and the doll when they`re small.

[i:]

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream.

I scream, you scream when they eat ice-cream.

[e]

Ten red pens are on the desk.

Seventy-seven benevolent elephants.

Fred fed Ted bread,

And Ted fed Fred bread.

Elmo let a pet hen get a red dress.

Very well, pet hen

[e] - [i:]

Ten red hen in a free green tree.

[ə:]

A girl with golden curls serves burgers on Thursday.

The first shirt is dirtier than the third skirt.

German learners learn German words,

Turkish learners learn Turkish words.

An earl gave Pearl a fur and a circlet of pearls

For her thirty – first birthday.

[ə:] - [i]

Her bird can sing and girl can swing.

[iə]

[ai]

I like white mice; they`re very nice.

Hi, Mike! This is Nile.

[i]

His little sister is six.

A kitty

A little kitty

A pretty little kitty

Bye, pretty little kitty

Bill fills with pills a dish of his big fish because the fish is ill.

[i] - [ai]

My happy family can fly.

A kitten

A white kitten

A little white kitten

I have a little white kitten

[aiə]

[ju:]

A new computer

My new computer

I like my new computer

[u]

Have a good look at the cookery book!

Cooks look for cookbooks on bookstalls,

Bookmen look for good books in bookshops.

[u:]

Let`s go to the zoo after school. It`s cool.

[ᴧ]

Chuckles can jump and run, Hurray, he`s number one.

A puppy

A funny puppy

Run, funny puppy

Run home, funny puppy

A funny puppy runs in front of a pub.

A fluffy puppy runs in front of a club.

A funny ugly hunter cuts a nut in his hut for us,

But with no luck and cuts his mug.

[æ] - [ᴧ]

A rat can run, a cat can jump,

A rat and a cat can run and jump on the sun.

[juǝ]

[b]

Bit by bit Billy blows big blue bubbles.

A big black bug bit the big black bear,

But the big black bear bit the big black bug back!

A British builder built a building of brown bricks,

A Bulgarian builder built a building of black bricks,

A Brazilian builder built a building of blue bricks.

But which building will be a bit bad?

[p]

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

[d]

Dan’s Dad is a good driver.

Dolly Dale dances with Davy Dail.

If a doctor is doctoring a doctor,

Does the doctor doing the doctoring have to doctor the doctor

The way the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored

[t]

Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.

The trip by train took twenty two hours.

Take ten pretty teapots and put twenty two plates on the table.

Tim told Tom a true story about twenty-two tall trees,

That Tim planted at a mountain top.

[g]

[k]

A cute kitty caught the kitten in the corner of the kitchen.

A curious kangaroo king is wearing a jacket and socks.

[ʤ]

Jess jellies ginger jam in June and July.

Judy Jones jigs with Jim James,

Jozy James jives with Job Jones.

[j]

Yankee yachtsmen’s yachts yaw for one yard.

[ʒ]

[z]

Zulu visited zoo to see dozens noisy zebras

and dozens lazy lizards from a desert on Zanzibar.

The Brazilian president always uses his position

To puzzle his wise opposition.

[s]

Sally sells sea shells.

The city mice are dancing in the circle.

Six slimy snails sailed silently.

Swan swam over the sea, swim, Swan, swim.

Swan swam back again. Well swum, Swan!

A single singer sings a sad song

About sixty-six sisters

Sitting by the sea at sunset.

[∫] - [s]

She slits the sheet she sits on.

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

[∫]

She sells sea shells by the sea.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

She slits the sheet she sits on.

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

[w] - [∫]

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish,

But if you wish the wish the witch wishes,

I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

[ʧ]

If two witches would watch two watches,

Which witch would watch which watch?

A cheetah chases chancy in a chilly chine

[k] - [ʧ]

Candles on a chocolate cake with cheese cream.

Chuckles and the children like chips, chocolate cakes and coke.

[ð]

This is the pen, these are the pens,

That is the ruler, those are the rulers.

This brother's together with that brother,

That brother's together with this brother.

These clothes are rather for the southern weather,

Those clothes are rather for the northern weather.

[ð] - [w]

Whether the weather be fine

Or whether the weather be not.

Whether the weather be cold

Or whether the weather be not.

We’ll weather the weather

Whether we like it or not.

[θ]

I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

He threw three balls.

He threw three throws.

Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.

I thought a thought. But the thought I thought

Wasn't the thought I thought I thought.

Three theatres thrill thirteen thousands of theatergoers.

Thirty thousand thirsty thieves thundered through the thicket.

Three therapists threw three thermometers

In three thick thickets of thorny thistle.

[w] - [ð]

Whether the weather is cold,

Whether the weather is hot,

We have to put up with the weather,

Whether we like it or not.

[w] - [u] - [ᴧ]

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,

If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[v]

A village vet visits villagers in the vicinity

To vaccinate village calves from the virus.

Vincent Voice vanquished Vivienne Vogue

With very vivid verses in a velvet valentine.

[f]

Four elephants and five dolphins.

Four furious friends fought for the phone.

Four fine fresh fish for friends and you.

Five fat frogs flying fast.

There was a young fisher named Fisher

who fished for a fish in a fissure.

[ð] - [θ] - [f]

This fish has a thin fin.

That fish has a thick fin.

This fish is a fish

That has a thinner fin than that fish.

[m]

Mary Mac's mother makes Mary Mac marry me.

My mother makes me marry Mary Mac.

[n]

Ninety nice nestlings nestle in nine nests,

Nine nice nestlings nestle in ninety nests.

If ninety nice nestlings didn’t nestle in nine nests,

Would nine nice nestlings nestle in ninety nests?

Nanny Nancy never naps at nights at her nineteen,

Nanny Nelly nid-nods at nights at her ninety.

[ŋ]

A young banker is thinking of giving

A thanking banquet at Thanksgiving.

[ŋ] - [n]

The king and the queen are eating chicken in the kitchen.

[l]

Billy blows big blue bubbles.

A large lorry is a lot longer than a little lorry,

A little lorry is a lot lighter than a large lorry.

If the large lorry wasn’t longer than the little lorry,

Would the little lorry be lighter than the large lorry?

[h]

A housewife who holds her house by herself,

Has a home help who helps her.

If the housewife didn’t hold her house by herself,

How could she have a home help who helps her?

[r]

Ray Rag ran across a red road.

Rose Reed replants red roses,

And the red roses ramp around a rail.