What do actors politicians and public speakers all use to help them pronounce
their English much more clearly and to get a perfect British accent and
something that you can use as well what they use are tongue twisters in today's
lesson I'm going to give you some great English tongue twisters which you can
use to improve your English pronunciation and your accent
so are you ready to improve your English speaking better and faster than you ever
thought possible great let's go
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on the bell so you don't miss any of my twice weekly lesson so what are tiny
twisters well each language has its own tongue twisters but they're really short
phrases or little mini stories that repeat the same sounds or groups of
sounds and that makes it really difficult when you say the phrase is
really quickly so why do we use them they're a fun and challenging way to
improve your pronunciation your enunciation and your ability to speak
clearly and fluently so today is a fun lesson to improve your British accent
with tongue twisters I'm going to give you some tongue twisters but before we
start grab yourself a glass of water because you're going to need it number
one she sells seashells by the seashore she sells seashells by the seashore so
this is to practice this and the sounds it starts off with a H sound for she and
then the next one is a for sells and then it mixes them up right the way
through so you get a good difference in the sounds now the real skill is to try
and speed up when you're saying these words so you start off slower she sells
sea shells by the sea shore and then you speed up and that's the secret to really
perfecting your pronunciation she sells seashells by the seashore she sells
seashells by the seashore and so on number two this second one focuses on
the ooh-la sound which actually can be a
very difficult one for many English learners this is what is so useful about
tongue twisters you can isolate different sounds that you find
particularly difficult and focus on them and you can do that in class with your
students as well of course now it's quite long so I'm going to go through
this line by line so are you ready little lady
Lily lost her lovely locket little lady Lily lost her lovely locket now you try
it
lucky little Lucie found the lovely locket lucky little Lucie found the
lovely locket now you try
hopefully little locket lay in Lucy's pocket lovely little locket lay in
Lucy's pocket now you try
lazy little Lucy lost the lovely locket lazy little Lucy lost the lovely locket
now you try
of course you don't need to repeat the whole thing that's quite a long one with
four lines but you can even just take the first line and that will help you to
focus on practicing those sounds it also practices the sounds of the TT the
Double L as opposed to the single L as well if you'd like a free tongue twister
guide click on the link below this video in the text number three what are my
favourites Betty botter bought some butter Betty botter bought some butter
now that is a great one to really practice your British English
pronunciation you've got the buh sound you've got the
tough sound and you've got things like the or the schwa everything in this one
got all the different vowel sounds that come after the buck so you've got the
bear in Betty both in bata and B sorry buck in butter this is a really great
one really fun which you can do in class or you can do on your own at home are
you ready I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream
I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream
this one works particularly on the scrub consonant cluster now this can be very
tricky so it's good to practice that for English learners consonant clusters can
be particularly difficult also helps with the EE sound with scream and cream
so should we just repeat that again because I love this one I scream you
scream we all scream I scream so remember practice these and other tongue
twisters like them and you will soon notice a difference in your English
pronunciation so I hope you've really liked this video
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