Business English Teacher

Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twisters are good for loosening your tongue and improving the diction and pronunciation.  Here is a list of some common English tongue twisters that will certainly help you to exercise your tongue. To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling or mispronouncing.

1.  She sells the seashells at the seashore.

2. A quick witted cricket critic.

3. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

4. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

5. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.

6. Eddie edited it.

7. Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

8. Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.

9. Freshly fried fresh flesh, freshly fried fresh flesh.

10. A box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.

11. Betty bought a bit of better butter.

12. A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest.

13. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

14. Do thick tinkers think?

15. Tacky tractor trailer trucks.

16. Spark plug car park

17. Paul, please pause for proper applause.

18. Quick Kiss, Quicker Kiss, Quickest Kiss.

19. A missing mixture measure.

20. Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

21. Few free fruit flies fly from flames.

22. Proper copper coffee pot.

23. A proper crop of poppies is a proper poppy-crop.

24. Red leather! Yellow leather!

25. Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.