Jamie, formateur d’anglais au centre de l’Académie des Langues de Caen, 26 rue d’Authie, vous propose les chaussettes de l’archi-duchesse
A tongue-twister is a sentence or phrase which is intended to be difficult to say.
Here’s an example:
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?
And another:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Some tongue-twisters are intended to be repeated. Try saying the examples below 5 times quickly.
An example:
She sells seashells by the seashore.
And another:
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
And another (be careful not to say a naughty word with this one!):
Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.
Good luck!