The set of the sails ...

The set of the sails ...

Useful tongue-twisters

(o diphtongué)
   -- Tony, the old ghost, moaned and groaned on a cold tombstone.


(r rétroflexe)
  -- Harry rarely reads literary
reviews.

  -- Those red roses are really very pretty.

(h "aspiré" - plutôt "expiré" en réalité)
   -- How horrible ! Hugh has hurt his hand with a heavy hammer.
   -- When he heard the hare hopping in the heather, the hard-hearted hunter
                hurriedly hid behind a high hedge.

(th - un classique)
   -- There are three thousand and thirty-three feathers on the throat of that thrush.
   -- Are those pathetic things worth thinking about ?
   -- Pass these things to the sixth sailor.

(Aspiration sur T, P, K à l'initiale d'un mot)
   -- Tom, tell us the tale of the twenty-two tiny turtles.
   -- The two tots tore their tea-towels to tatters.
   -- Uncle Kenneth's black cat Kim is quite an inquisitive creature.
   -- "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
        A peck of pickled pepper Peter piper picked.
        If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
        Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?"

 

(L "sombre")

  -- Tell Will to fill the pail with milk, please.

  -- He had a fearful fall from the high wall at the top of the hill.

 

(-ng "fondus" en fin de syllabe)

  -- Young Miss King is singing most charming things.

  -- Hearing that bell ring always causes a tingling feeling in my finger-tips.


(i long)

  -- Some teachers' teaching pleases some people but other people feel the same teaching isn't pleasing. It isn't easy to please each person but teasing the teacher won't please the teacher and each teacher needs to be free to teach as he pleases.

 

(i bref)

  -- Tim is as thin as a pin, but it isn't a sin to be thin, is it ?

  --  Why is Sister Lily sitting knitting in silence ?

  -- In the Middle Ages the minstrels of this pretty little city were famous for their singing of religious melodies.



26/11/2012
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