TeachingEnglish
Tongue twisters
Submitted by Sally Trowbridge on 10 August, 2010 - 16:15

She sells sea shells by the sea shore. How fast can you say it without making a mistake? Your students can listen to tongue twisters and then record themselves saying them here on LearnEnglish Kids: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/tongue-twisters

Note you can download all the tongue twisters from LearnEnglish kids here on TeachingEnglish.

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Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.

Betty better butter Brad's bread.

Betty Botter bought some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter -
That would make my batter better."
So she bought a bit of butter,
Better than her bitter butter,
And she baked it in her batter,
And the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.

A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.

A bitter biting bittern
Bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitter better bittern
Bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten,
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"

Black bug's blood.

The blue bluebird blinks.

The bootblack bought the black boot back.

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.

Brad's big black bath brush broke.