{"id":16289,"date":"2021-06-02T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=16289"},"modified":"2021-06-02T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:45:25","slug":"practising-speaking-with-tongue-twisters-and-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/2021\/06\/practising-speaking-with-tongue-twisters-and-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Practising Speaking with Tongue Twisters and Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

An easy way to become a fluent speaker is to practise speaking often. At the beginning of our Global Speaking Passport<\/a> lessons, i-Learner students practise their enunciation, tone and pacing with different phrases and tongue twisters. Besides improving reading fluency, practising with different phrases and tongue twisters helps students learn how to convey a message or feeling through their speaking, as well as learn how to speak with more impact. This leads to students becoming better communicators and fluent speakers!<\/p>\n

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Say these sentences smoothly with a natural pace and tone:<\/b><\/p>\n

This cactus is green and spiky.<\/p>\n

The brighter the lights, the bigger the city.<\/p>\n

I like to hike when it\u2019s fine but not when it\u2019s wet.<\/p>\n

I feel so well prepared for this test<\/p>\n

I left my trolley in the underground car park.<\/p>\n

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Avoid tripping over your words with these tongue twisters:<\/b><\/p>\n

Big pig in a wig.<\/p>\n

The blue bird bounces brightly.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no light late at night.<\/p>\n

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.<\/p>\n

I study when it\u2019s sunny with my study buddies.<\/p>\n

Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.<\/p>\n

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.<\/p>\n

Whether the weather is warm, whether the weather is hot, we have to put up with the weather, whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n

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Project your voice and make the feeling clear in these short phrases:<\/b><\/p>\n

Eureka!<\/p>\n

It is too hot to run today!<\/p>\n

On school days, I get up at 6 am.<\/p>\n

This island is beautiful. Look at the beaches.<\/p>\n

Look at my grade. I got an A!<\/p>\n

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to do my chores today at all!<\/p>\n

Today, I forgot my umbrella, and I got soaked in the rain.<\/p>\n

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Now try these poems and limericks:<\/b><\/p>\n

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Limerick 1<\/span><\/p>\n

An ambitious young fellow named Matt<\/p>\n

Tried to parachute using his hat.<\/p>\n

Folks below looked so small<\/p>\n

As he started to fall,<\/p>\n

Then got bigger and bigger and SPLAT!<\/p>\n

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Limerick 2<\/span><\/p>\n

A circus performer named Brian<\/p>\n

Once smiled as he rode on a lion.<\/p>\n

They came back from the ride,<\/p>\n

But with Brian inside,<\/p>\n

And the smile on the face of the lion.<\/p>\n

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Fog<\/span><\/p>\n

Carl Sandburg<\/p>\n

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The fog comes<\/p>\n

on little cat feet.<\/p>\n

It sits looking<\/p>\n

over harbor and city<\/p>\n

on silent haunches<\/p>\n

and then moves on.<\/p>\n

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The Falling Star<\/span><\/p>\n

Sara Teasdale<\/p>\n

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I saw a star slide down the sky,<\/p>\n

Blinding the north as it went by,<\/p>\n

Too burning and too quick to hold,<\/p>\n

Too lovely to be bought or sold,<\/p>\n

Good only to make wishes on<\/p>\n

And then forever to be gone.<\/p>\n

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A Jelly-Fish<\/span><\/p>\n

Marianne Moore<\/p>\n

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Visible, invisible,<\/p>\n

A fluctuating charm,<\/p>\n

An amber-colored amethyst<\/p>\n

Inhabits it; your arm<\/p>\n

Approaches, and<\/p>\n

It opens and<\/p>\n

It closes;<\/p>\n

You have meant<\/p>\n

To catch it,<\/p>\n

And it shrivels;<\/p>\n

You abandon<\/p>\n

Your intent\u2014<\/p>\n

It opens, and it<\/p>\n

Closes and you<\/p>\n

Reach for it\u2014<\/p>\n

The blue<\/p>\n

Surrounding it<\/p>\n

Grows cloudy, and<\/p>\n

It floats away<\/p>\n

From you.<\/p>\n

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Jabberwocky<\/span><\/p>\n

Lewis Caroll<\/p>\n

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\u2019Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<\/p>\n

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:<\/p>\n

All mimsy were the borogoves,<\/p>\n

And the mome raths outgrabe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeware the Jabberwock, my son!<\/p>\n

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!<\/p>\n

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun<\/p>\n

The frumious Bandersnatch!\u201d<\/p>\n

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He took his vorpal sword in hand;<\/p>\n

Long time the manxome foe he sought\u2014<\/p>\n

So rested he by the Tumtum tree<\/p>\n

And stood awhile in thought.<\/p>\n

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And, as in uffish thought he stood,<\/p>\n

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,<\/p>\n

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,<\/p>\n

And burbled as it came!<\/p>\n

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One, two! One, two! And through and through<\/p>\n

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!<\/p>\n

He left it dead, and with its head<\/p>\n

He went galumphing back.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd hast thou slain the Jabberwock?<\/p>\n

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!<\/p>\n

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!\u201d<\/p>\n

He chortled in his joy.<\/p>\n

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\u2019Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<\/p>\n

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:<\/p>\n

All mimsy were the borogoves,<\/p>\n

And the mome raths outgrabe.<\/p>\n

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