A tongue twister is a series of words or sounds that are usually repetitive and are difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Most English language teachers use tongue twisters to develop the students pronunciation and accent. Sometimes, we use tongue twisters just for the sheer fun of doing it. I often get my students to memorize this and ask them to say it out loud in class as a group and in pairs.

2. 1.He threw three balls.
2.A really weird rear wheel.
3.Red leather, yellow
leather.
4.“What ails Alex?” asks
Alice.

3. 1.Twelve twins twirled twelve
twigs.
2.Bring the brown baked bread
back.
3.A big blue bucket of blue
blueberries.
4.She sells sea shells by the sea
shore.

4. 1.Can an active actor always
actually act accurately?
2.I saw a saw that could out saw any
other saw I ever saw.
3.Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of
cheap cheddar cheese.
4.A box of biscuits, a box of mixed
biscuits and biscuit mixer.
5.Hungry Henry hit heavy Harriet
over the head with a heavy

5. A flea and a fly flew up in a
flue. Said the flea, “Let us
fly!” Said the fly, “Let us
flee!” So they flew through
a flaw in the flue.

6. There was a young fisher
named Fischer who fished for
a fish in a fissure. The fish
with a grin, pulled the
fisherman in; now they’re
fishing the fissure for Fischer.

7. 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.

8. Whether the weather is
warm, whether the weather
is hot, we have to put up
with the weather whether
we like it or not.

9. 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.

10. Betty Botter bought some butter,
but she said “this butter’s bitter!
But a bit of better butter will but
make my butter better.” So she
bought some better butter, better
than the bitter butter, and it made
her butter better.