Hello, Shakespeareans!
Below is the list of tongue twisters I promised the students yesterday.
Hey, kids-- are you MEMORIZING??? (If you still don't have a script, e-mail me!!!)
Love,
Mrs. K.
Vocal Warm-Ups
These first two are particularly good for achieving a crisp, frontal placement of
T TH V L N M D S B P K and GN:
The lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue,
the tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips.
A box of biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits
And a biscuit mixer
Two great twisters for S and SH:
Should saucy sharks seek shelter soon?
The sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick.
A great twister for crisp N and M:
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.
Barren Beacon Beckons Bacon Baron
Good Blood, Bad Blood, Good Blood, Bad Blood, etc.
Red Blood, Blue Blood, Red Blood, Blue Blood, etc.
She stood upon the balcony, inimically mimicking him hiccupping while amicably welcoming him in.
Any noise annoys an oyster, but an noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
She sits and shines shoes
And when she sits she shines all day
A skunk sat on a stump.
The skunk thought the stump stunk.
The stump thought the skunk stunk.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
For Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be
Rosco the rum runner rubbed out Rudy the rat for ruining his rum running receipts.
Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.
"Will you walk a little faster," said the whiting to the snail.
"There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance.
They are waiting on a shingle; will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you
Will you join the dance?
Won't you, will you, won't you, will you,
Won't you join the dance?" Lewis Caroll
"I don't care a whit for your wit or whims," said Warren Wharton.
I carried the married character over the barrier.
The foreign authorities put Dorothy in an orange forest.
Yes, she is pure, but so is Mrs. Muir. You're just unsure. Please do not lure me with your unsure cure.
How much round ground would a hound dog hog if a ground hog were round ground.
About Socks
Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,
A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.
Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock,
But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.
None of your fantastic slack swap slop
From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.
Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock
With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
Not a supersheet seersucker ruck sack sock,
Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock
Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block.
Nothing slipshod dirp drop flip flop or glip glop
Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.
The leath police dissmissith us, and that sufficeth us.
Which witch whined when the wine was spilled on the wailing whale?
A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled blood.
Sister Suzy's sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill at sewing shirts my shy young sister Suzy shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Saying they'd sooner sleep on thistles
Than the short serge shirts for soldiers shy young sister Suzy sews.
you know New York
you need New York
you know you need unique New York
Bobby Bibby bought a bat
Bobby Bibby bought a ball
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldy Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
Boo! cried Bobby, Bad luck, ball!
Bad luck, Bobby, Bad Luck ball.
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bibby's blowing bubbles.
Black Bart was a smart marksman.
New York is unique, unique is New York.
This black bug bled blue-black blood while the other black bug bled blue.
Thistle sticks sixty six thousand and six thistle sticks
Theophulous Thistle, the thistle sifter thrust a thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Better Botter bought some butter
But she said this butter's bitter
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter
So she bought some better butter
Put it in her bitter batter
And it made her bitter batter better
Sister Susie went to sea
To see the sea, you see.
The sea she saw was a saucy sea,
A sort of saucy sea saw she.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Many mumbling mice are making merry music
in the moon light. Mighty nice!
My dame hath a lame tame crane.
My dame hath a crane that is lame.
Oh gentle Jane, doth my dame's lame tame crane
leave and come home again?
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot
Whatever the weather we'll weather the weather
Whether we like it or not.
“When tweedle beetles battle
With paddles in a puddle
They call it a tweedle beetle puddle paddle battle."
~Dr. Seuss
What a to-do to die today, at a minute or two to two;
A thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do.
For they'll beat a tattoo, at twenty to two
A rat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tattoo
And a dragon will come when he hears the drum,
At a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two.
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
