TONGUE TWISTERS – Exam task
1. Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.
2. No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.
3. Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
4. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
5. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
6. He threw three free throws.
7. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
8. One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two
won one too.
9. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
10. Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
11. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
12. The 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
13. You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York.
14. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
15. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
16. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
17. A big black bug bit a big black bear.
18. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
19. Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.
20. Six Czech cricket critics.
21. Green glass globes glow greenly.
22. A proper copper coffee pot.
23. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have
thought I thought.
24. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practised and
practically perfect.
25. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely sea shells. ¨
So if she sells shells on the sea shore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
26. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?
27. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy,
was he?
28. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
29. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a
woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
30. Betty Botter bought some butter,
but, she said, this butter’s bitter;
if I put it in my batter,
it will make my batter bitter,
but a bit of better butter
will make my batter better.
So she bought a bit of butter
better than her bitter butter
and she put it in her batter.
And it made her batter better.
So ‘twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.