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TWO LIPS
The flexibility of the lips is very important if speech is to be clear and projected.
Vowels as well as consonants suffer from lack of lip mobility.
Sounds: p b m w wh
1.
A bearded peer on the pier appeared to peer in the pier glass.
2.
The blank breeze blights the bright bloom blossom.
3.

Betty bent a bit of butter to make a better batter.

4.

Big blue blisters bleeding badly.

5.

Do breath tests test the breath

Yes, thats the best of a breath test
So the best breath stands the breath test best.

6.

Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.

A pack of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers,
Where is the pack of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Tongue-Tip and Upper Teeth Ridge

The majority of English consonants are produced by the approximation of tongue tip and the upperteeth ridge. So this section, besides being the largest, is also one of the most important.
Many people have faulty s and r sounds are you one of them?
Sounds: t d l n r s z
1.
If a doctor doctored another doctor
Would the doctor doing the doctoring
Doctor the other doctor
In the way the doctored doctor wanted to be doctored
Or would the doctor doing the doctoring
Doctor the other doctor
In his own way?
2.

I need not your needles, theyre needless to me.

For needing needles were needless you use.
But did my neat trousers but needs to be kneed.
I then should have need of your needles indeed.

3.

I bought the blazer braid I bought

To bind the blazer blue.
The braid I bought was not too bright
To bind the blazer blue.

FIVE
LOWER LIP AND UPPER TEETH
If you trip up over your f and v consonant the practice these amusing twisters, but watch
these false teeth!
Sounds: f v
1.

A flea and a fly get lost in a flue.

Said the fly,
Let us flee!
Said the flea,
Let us fly!
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

2.

A fat-thighed freak fries thick fish.

3.

I snuff shop snuff.

Do you snuff shop snuff?

4.

One violet winkle veering west via Worthing went wading round Ventner.

5.

Sheath thy sword. The surly sheriff said.

Or surely shall a churlish serf soon shatter thee!

6.

Three free flea pipes.

7.

Three fluffy feathers fell from feeble Phoebes fan.

8.

Three free thugs set three thugs free.

9.

Violet vainly viewed the vast vacant vista.

10.

You can have

Fried fresh fish
Fish fried fresh
Fresh fried fish
Fresh fish fried
Or fish fresh fried

He was three - toed toad but a two toed toad was she.
The three toed tree toad tried to climb the two toed tree toads tree.
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.
Betty Botta brought bought a bit of butter
But, she said, This butter is bitter,
If I put it in my butter
It will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter
Will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than the bitter butter
And it made her bitter batter better.