Tongue-Twisters
Fun phrases in English -- often 
using alliteration – repetitive, 1st 
letter sounds that are often difficult 
to pronounce when spoken quickly.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled 
peppers. 
How many pecks of pickled peppers did 
Peter Piper pick?
How much wood could a 
woodchuck chuck, if a 
woodchuck could chuck 
wood?
Sometimes silly Sally sells 
seashells by the sunny 
seashore on Sundays.
Write your own tongue-twister: 
 You must use the word LAWYER (and alliteration of the 
consonant ‘L’. 
 Use your brainstorming and pre-writing techniques to 
think of as many words starting with ‘L’ as possible. 
 Then arrange the words into a tongue-twister (use as 
many words as possible – doesn’t have to make sense, 
but word order is important to make it sound ‘credible’).
Lawyer Tongue-Twister 
 Laughingly loveable lawyers learn to lift lucrative loot & 
like to luringly lick limitless luscious lollipops.
There was a farmer 
who had a dog, 
and Bingo was his name-oh! 
B-I-N-G-O (x3) 
And Bingo was his name-oh!
Itsy-bitsy spider 
went up the water spout. 
Down came the rain 
and washed the spider out. 
Out came the sun 
and dried up all the rain. 
Itsy-bitsy spider 
went up the spout again!

Tongue Twisters

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    Fun phrases inEnglish -- often using alliteration – repetitive, 1st letter sounds that are often difficult to pronounce when spoken quickly.
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    Peter Piper pickeda peck of pickled peppers. How many pecks of pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
  • 4.
    How much woodcould a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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    Sometimes silly Sallysells seashells by the sunny seashore on Sundays.
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    Write your owntongue-twister:  You must use the word LAWYER (and alliteration of the consonant ‘L’.  Use your brainstorming and pre-writing techniques to think of as many words starting with ‘L’ as possible.  Then arrange the words into a tongue-twister (use as many words as possible – doesn’t have to make sense, but word order is important to make it sound ‘credible’).
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    Lawyer Tongue-Twister Laughingly loveable lawyers learn to lift lucrative loot & like to luringly lick limitless luscious lollipops.
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    There was afarmer who had a dog, and Bingo was his name-oh! B-I-N-G-O (x3) And Bingo was his name-oh!
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    Itsy-bitsy spider wentup the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain. Itsy-bitsy spider went up the spout again!