Практические упражнения
Tongue – twisters (скороговорки)
1. She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely sea shells:
For if she sells shells on the sea shore,
I’m sure she sells sea-shore shells.
2. How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck
If a wood-chuck would chuck wood?
A wood-chuck would chuck all the wood
He could chuck
If a wood chuck would chuck wood.
3. If a dog chews shoes
What shoes would he choose to chew?
Too few for sure.
You’re a choosy shoe-chewer.
4. If a three-month truce
Is a truce in truth,
Is the truth of a truce in truth
A three-month truth?
5. Three grey geese in the green grass grazing,
Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.
6. My dame has a lame tame crane,
My dame has a crane that is lame,
Let my dame’s tame crane
Feed and come home again.
7. Whatever one toucan can do
Is sooner done by toucans two
And three toucans (it’s very true)
Can do much more than two can do.
8. Round and round the rugged rock
The ragged rascal ran.
How many Rs are there in that?
Now tell me if you can.
9. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, brown bread
Spread it thick
Say it quick.
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, brown bread
Spread it thicker
Say it quicker.
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, brown bread
. Now repeat it
While you eat it.
10. All I want is a cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot;
I may be off my dot,
But I want a cup of coffee
From a proper coffee pot.
Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots,
They are no use to me
If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee
From a proper copper coffee pot,
I’ll have a cup of tea.
11. A tutor who taught on the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
“Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tooters to toot?”
The sixth sheik’s sheep is sick.
12. MAMA KNOWS BETTER.
(by C. Graham)
You shouldn’t do it that way,
You ought to do it this way,
You ought to do it this way,
You ought to do it my way.
You should not wear it that way,
You ought to wear it this way,
You ought to wear it this way,
You ought to wear it my way.
You shouldn’t go with them,
You ought to go with us.
You shouldn’t take the train,
You ought to take the bus.
You shouldn’t wear that hat,
You ought to cut your hear.
You shouldn’t get so fat,
You ought to eat a pear.
You shouldn’t do it that way,
You ought to do it this way,
You ought to do it this way,
You ought to do it my way.
13. There’s no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight
For a night-light’s a slight light
On a light night like tonight.
14. Moses supposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
For nobody’s toeses are poses of roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be.
15. Critical cricket critic.
16. A big blue bucket of blue blueberries.
17. 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 Peter Piper picked.
18. Betty Botter bought some butter, So she bought a bit of butter
But, she said, the butter’s bitter; Better than her bitter butter,
If I put it in my batter, And she put it in her batter
It will make my batter bitter, And the batter was not bitter.
But a bit of better butter So ‘twas better Betty Botter
Will make my batter better. Bought a bit of better butter.
19. Swan swam over the sea, swim, swan, swim; swan swam back again, well swum, swan!
20. Whether the weather be fine
or whether the weather be not,
whether the weather be cold
or whether the weather be hot,
we’ll weather the weather
whatever the weather
whether we like it or not.
21. If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
22. A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his Granny:
“A canner can can anything that he can,
But a canner can’t can a can, can he?”
23. A tutor who tooted the flute,
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor:
“Is it tougher to toot
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?