Read the tongue twisters

Read the sentences paying attention to the pronunciation of vowels in different types of syllables.

1. Ann can take care of a car. (Аня может позаботиться о машине.)

2. He met her here. (Он встречал её здесь.)

3. A fine girl sits by the fire. (Прекрасная девушка сидит около камина.)

4. Tom has more horses at home. (Дома Том имеет больше лошадей.)

5. For sure he must buy pure fur in future. (Конечно же, в будущем он должен покупать чистый мех.)

6. I type the myth about tyrants and sly myrmidons. (Я печатаю миф о тиранах и их хитрых прислужниках.)

1. What noise annoys an oyster most?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

2. Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
3. Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.
4. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
5. She slits the sheet she sits on.

6. A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets
of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

7. A twister of twists once twisted a twist
and the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
Now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists.

8. Red lolly, yellow lolly.

9. I am a mother pheasant plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
that ever plucked a mother pheasant!

10. Mrs Hunt had a country cut front
in the front of her country cut pettycoat.

11. Knapsack strap.
12. Where Molly had had "had had", "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
13. Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
14. Great gray goats

15. Whenever the weather is cold.
Whenever the weather is hot.
We'll weather the weather,
whatever the weather,
whether we like it or not.

16. Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city,...
17. The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
18. There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
19. How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
20. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

21. One smart man, he felt smart.
Two smart men, they both felt smart.
Three smart men, they all felt smart.

22. If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.

23. Clowns grow glowing crowns.

24. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

25. Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.

26. 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?

27. Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

28. Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

29. A box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.

30. When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

31. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
32. The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
33. She sees seas slapping shores.

34. Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.

35. Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!

36. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.

37. I'm not the fig plucker,
nor the fig pluckers' son,
but I'll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.

38. One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.

39. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

40. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn't have thought so much.

41. The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.

42. How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans?
A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.

43. Six stick shifts stuck shut.

UNIT 1. *** AROUND THE WORLD ***

1. Vocabulary

viewer
location
be located
build
temple
palace
amazing colours
citizens of
discover
see in person
be interested in
gambling
amazing, incredible
enormous, splendid
surprising, exciting
unique, ancient
extravagant, magnificent
square
bridge
building
art
marvel
experience
be covered with
be surrounded with
have in common
holiday destination
include
be proud of
consist of
feature
of medium height build
tall / short
round face,
pale-skinned
curly / straight hair
fashionable
well-built / slim
middle-aged
good-looking
ugly
attractive

2. Do the quiz below. Do not look at a map!

1. a. Which is the largest country in the world (in the area) – China or Russia?

b. Which has a bigger population – China or Russia?

2. Which is longer – the River Nile in Africa or the River Amazon in South

America?

3. Which are the five most populated cities in the world?

4. Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

Australia Canada Indonesia Greece

5. Match the descriptions to a country below. (There are several extra countries.)

a. It has the most fast food restaurants in the world.

b. They drink the most cups of tea per person in the world.

c. It has the most universities in the world.

d. It has the busiest airport in the world.

e. It is the most popular country in the world with tourists.

f. It has the most popular theme park in the world.

China France India Ireland Japan Russia Spain the UK the USA

3. What do you know about the USA? Do the quiz individually.

1. Who discovered America? a) George Washington b) Christopher Columbus c) The pilgrims	2. Who was the first president of the USA? a) Abraham Lincoln b) George Washington c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. What is the national symbol of America? a) The rose b) The bald eagle c) The shamrock	4. Which is the United States capital? a) New York City b) Los Angeles c) Washington, D.C.
5. Where is the Statue of Liberty? a) New York b) Massachusetts c) California	6. The American flag has: a) thirteen stripes b) thirty stripes c) fifty stripes
7. Where is the tallest building (skyscraper) in the USA? a) New York City b) Chicago c) San Francisco	8. When do Americans celebrate Independence Day? a) July 4 b) December 25 c) February 14
9. What is the national sport in America? a) football b) soccer c) baseball	10. Who was the first man on the moon? a) Yury Gagarin b) John Glenn c) Neil Amstrong

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