Tongue twisters

[Гость Pavlovsky]

Давайте сделаем подборку скороговорок, которые можно использовать на уроках!

Вот чем я пользуюсь:

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

Seventy seven benevolent elephants

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.

The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south.

These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

The myth of Miss Muffet.

Tim, the thin twin tinsmith

[Lyudmila]

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

[Alena Malinka]

Одна из любимых, хоть и достаточно сложных:

 

She sells sea shell on the sea shore

the shells shesells are surely seashells

So if she sells sea shore shels

I'm sure she sells sea shore shells!

 

And try this one, which was one of my english speaking teacher's (she was from Uk) favourite!

 

Betty bought a bit of butter, but the butter betty bought was bitter/

Bety bought another bit of butter to make the bitter butter better, but the butter Betty bought was also bitter!

 

but actually the choise of the proper toungue twister depends mostly on the level of your students as well as the problems they most frequently face and, of course, the type and topic of your lesson!

 

I will try to find some more interesting things to enlarge this kind of "Методическая копилка"

[Barbara]

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper...

Ааааа....Моя любимая... ещё со времен подготовительных курсов в университет

 

Я очень люблю nursery-rhymes. У меня их вагон и маленькая тележка. Малышне очень нравится. А если ещё и перевод Маршака в картинках, то все выучат обязательно

[Laddy]

А бизнесменам нравится: Big business stinks. Это тоже была кассете (для выработки произношения звука ) .

[Nina]

[quote name='Alena Malinka' date='19.3.2008, 19:44' post='19

but actually the choise of the proper toungue twister depends mostly on the level of your students as well as the problems they most frequently face and, of course, the type and topic of your lesson!

 

I will try to find some more interesting things to enlarge this kind of "Методическая копилка"

"Методическая копилка"- это отлично! Давайте ее пополнять.

А я очень люблю вот эти.

Where are you going to, my little cat?

I'm going to town to buy a hat.

What!? A hat for a cat? A cat in a hat?

Who ever saw a cat in a hat?

 

Spades for digging, pens for writing,

Ears for hearing,teeth for biting,

Eyes for seeing, legs for walking,

Tongues for tasting and for talking.

 

Есть еще очень много других. Я обычно подбираю рифмовки и скороговорки к теме урока. Собираю их в тетрадочку(не поверите!) со студенчиских времен.

[Lyudmila]

[quote name='Alena Malinka' date='19.3.2008, 19:44' post='19

but actually the choise of the proper toungue twister depends mostly on the level of your students as well as the problems they most frequently face and, of course, the type and topic of your lesson!

There are many interesting tounger twisters for little students. And what about the older ones? Are there any? Do they need tounger twisters?

[Yaroslav]

There are many interesting tounger twisters for little students. And what about the older ones? Are there any? Do they need tounger twisters?

They deffinitely need them. There are a lot of students with poor phonetics and who are ashamed of this and have seriuos psychological problems. Twisters will be very useful, but unfortunately, I haven't got any or even didn't try to find them. Now I'm interested in this idea and will surf the internet in search for them. Thanks for idea!

[Алексей Конобеев]

There are many interesting tounger twisters for little students. And what about the older ones? Are there any? Do they need tounger twisters?

I used tongue twisters with university students, and did it for several reasons:

1. They help to improve the speech tempo.

2. STudents learn to speak more distinctly and deal with their own pronunciation problems.

3. Tongue twisters help to explain and analyze the differences between the English and the Russian phonology by analyzing what is difficult for native speakers of each language (example: the "Red lorry, yellow lorry" twister is difficult for the English speakers but as a rule presents no difficulty to the Russian ones as this sound combination is more common for the Russian language. Similarly, some of the Russian tongue twisters would be very easy for English-speaking students - I've checked that with some of the British students we had). This served as a bridge to a more detailed and "conscious" study of the English sound system and, as a result, helped to improved the students' pronunciation and intonation (as some of the tongue twisters depend much on intonation for correct pronunciation).

[Lyudmila]

I used tongue twisters with university students, and did it for several reasons:

1. They help to improve the speech tempo.

2. STudents learn to speak more distinctly and deal with their own pronunciation problems.

3. Tongue twisters help to explain and analyze the differences between the English and the Russian phonology by analyzing what is difficult for native speakers of each language (example: the "Red lorry, yellow lorry" twister is difficult for the English speakers but as a rule presents no difficulty to the Russian ones as this sound combination is more common for the Russian language. Similarly, some of the Russian tongue twisters would be very easy for English-speaking students - I've checked that with some of the British students we had). This served as a bridge to a more detailed and "conscious" study of the English sound system and, as a result, helped to improved the students' pronunciation and intonation (as some of the tongue twisters depend much on intonation for correct pronunciation).

You are quite right! The tongue twisters help to improve the students' intonation and pronunciation. They are very usefull for the beginners and easy to integrate them in to the lessons. But the use of tongue twisters at the lessons for older students is more difficult to improve their intonation and pronunciation, because it is allready formed and not easy to teach tem again. There are some other usefull methods to teach the pronunciation, if the students have wrong pronunciation. What do you think about this?

[Olchik]

Давайте сделаем подборку скороговорок, которые можно использовать на уроках!

Whether the weather is cold,

Or whether the weather is hot,

We' ll be together whatever the weather

Wether we like it or not.

 

Why do you cry, Willy?

Why do you cry?

Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why?

 

If many men knew

What many men know,

If many men went

Where many men go,

If many men did

What many men do,

The world would be better -

I think so, don' t you?

[Uchilka]

Давайте сделаем подборку скороговорок, которые можно использовать на уроках!

Lion Leo likes lemons.

Mike and Mary, cheese and cherry.

(Е. Левко. I like English, кн.2)

 

Big bells ring a long full song,

Ding-dong, ding-dong!

 

Here the ringing, here the song,

Ting-a-ling, ding-ding, ding-dong.

 

Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

Can you retell ten texts in twelve seconds?

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

 

Billy will fill the bill.

Which witch wishes which wicked fish?

Ithought a thought but the thought I thought was not the thought I thought I thought.

 

There's where they're wrong.

Twelves twins twirled twelve twigs.

(Д.М. Каркусова. Учим английскому языку играя)

[Radislav Millrood]

A thick thimble is for a thick finger.

A thin thimble is for a thin finger.

Thick thimbles are for thick fingers.

Thin thiimbles are for thin fingers.

Thick for the thick and thin for the thin.