25 Fun Tongue Twisters for ESL Students

Wanting to use tongue twisters for your ESL class? Here is a list of 25 fun tongue twisters you can use with your students!

If you’re curious about how to use tongue twisters or why you should use them, check out this article written about using tongue twisters in an ESL pronunciation class:  https://www.atlasteaching.com/lesson-planning/pronunicationesltonguetwisters

1.     Four fine fresh fish for you.

2.     He threw three free throws.

3.     I’ve got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late.

4.     Seventy-seven benevolent elephants.

5.     Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

6.     I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.

7.     I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.

8.     A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.

9.     You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York.

10.  She sells seashells by the seashore.

11.  Six sticky skeletons. (x3)

12.  How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

13.  I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you.

14.  Willy’s really weary.

15.  A big black bear sat on a big black rug.

16.  Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

17.  Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

18.  If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

19.  Betty Botter bought some butter. But, she said, 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 batter better. So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

20.  Red Leather, yellow leather.

21.  Black background, brown background, brown background, black background, background, background, black, black, brown, brown.

22.  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?

23.  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.

24.  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?

25.  If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

Next time you need a tongue twister, try one of these out!

Tongue Twisters provided by Alison Mullins