Tongue Twister?

Assalamualaikum…hi everyone!

Today, I would like to share about the activity which our whole class had been done in each group, which is presenting three tongue twisters for pronunciation drills.

Before that I would like to ask, do you ever heard about tongue twister?

Tongue twister...

If you never heard of it, I will kindly share with you about what is tongue twister.

A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.

The definition of tongue twister is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister.

Before I give you have a look at our group’s tongue twisters, please read the tongue twister loudly if you want to know how it sounds interesting. =)

The first tongue twister:

While we were walking,
we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

The second tongue twister:

 Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

The third tongue twister:

Luke Luck likes lakes.

Luke's duck likes lakes.

Luke Luck licks lakes.

Luck's duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.

Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

Well, what do you feel? Does it sound funny?

Actually, tongue twisters are not only for light-hearted linguistic fun and games. They serve a practical purpose in practicing pronunciation. English tongue twisters may be used by foreign students of English to improve their accent, actors who need to develop a certain accent, and by speech therapists to help those with speech difficulties.

When their use is for one of these more serious reasons, then tongue twisters are generally subdivided into categories classifying them by the particular vowel or consonant sounds they exercise. The Peter Piper twister, for example, clearly provides practice for the P sound.

The Peter Piper

Peter Piper Picked A Peck of Pickled Peppers.

So, let’s recite the tricky rhyme of tongue twister with fun and laughter!

Assalamualaikum…

With love,

Liza Tiong~