#1857. Tongue Twisters

, level: all
Posted Sun Jul 16 00:39:05 PDT 2000 by Robert Rodgers (rlrtexas@yahoo.com).
University English Teacher , Beijing, China
Materials Required: None
Activity Time: Fifty minutes
Concepts Taught: Oral English Skills

Tongue Twisters

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
It could chuck as much as a woodchuck could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A tree toad loved a she-toad that lived up in a tree.
She was a three-toed she-toad, but a two-toed toad was he.

Betty Barker had some butter, 'But,' she said, 'this butter's bitter. If I bake with bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter.'

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?

A skunk sat on a tree stump, and thunk the tree stump stunk.
But as the skunk sat on the tree stump, the tree stump thunk the skunk stunk.