Activity 1

TOPIC TONGUE TWISTER

TIME 10 minutes
PREPARATION Tongue Twister Cards
List of tongue twisters.(numbered)
1. Teacher gets the students to choose one number from 1 – 10.
STEPS 1 2. Student will be given the tongue twister card2according to the
chosen number.
A quick witted cricket critic How can a clam cram in a clean
3. Students will say the tongue twister three times
cream continuously.
can?
4. This activity can be used as a set-induction or closure.

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1 A quick witted cricket critic
Sheena leads, Sheila needs. She said she should sit!
2 How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
3 Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
4 She said she should sit!
5 The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
6 If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
7 The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday
8 I saw Susie 5 sitting in a shoe shine shop. 6
TheWhere
sixth she
sick sits she sixth
sheik's shines, and where she shinesIfshe
Stu sits.
chews shoes, should Stu
9 How sheep's
much dew sickdoes a dewdrop drop choose the shoes he chews?
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If dewdrops do drop dew? 8
The
10 thirty-three thieves thought
The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine
that they thrilled the throne shop.
throughout Thursday. Where she sits she shines, and
where she shines she sits.

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10
How much dew does a dewdrop
The king would sing, about a ring
drop
that would go ding.
If dewdrops do drop dew?

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Activity 2

TOPIC TONGUE TWISTER

TIME I hour
PREPARATION Tongue Twister Strips.
List of tongue twisters.
10 -15 participants
Score sheets.
Two or One adjudicators.(Teachers)
Classroom/Hall
1. Teacher gets the participants to sit in a semi-circle
STEPS 2. * *Adjudicators are seated in front.
3. The first Participant will draw a Tongue Twister Strip from
the box.
4. 10 seconds will be given to the participant to read the
tongue twister silently
5. Participant will read the tongue twister aloud three times
continuously over a microphone.
6. Then the participant will pass the strip to the second
participant. (The time of the silent reading can be
shortened, since they have heard it from the previous
participant.)

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 7. Meanwhile the Adjudicators confer and compromise the
marks after each participant’s presentation.
8. At the end of each round two participants with the lowest
marks will be eliminated.
9. These rounds continue until only one participant is left.
10. The final participant will be the winner.
*Level of difficulty of the tongue twisters will increase as the participants get
lesser

List of Tongue twisters

1. next left
2. mama papa
3. sissy papa
4. yet yum
5. three five
6. earwig
7. speed zone
8. get ticket
9. chicken kitchen
10. mad blood

11. Betty Botter bought some butter but the butter was bitter So, she bought some
better butter, to better the bitter butter and her butter was not bitter. So Betty
Botter bought some better butter and made the bitter butter better.

12. Freshly fried fresh flesh

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. But if Sally sells sea shells by the sea
shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?
13. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood
a woodchuck could chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
14. A quick witted cricket critic
15. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
16. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
17. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
18. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday
19. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
20. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
21. She said she should sit!
22. How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.
23. Fresh fried fish,

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 Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.
24. Come, come,
Stay calm, stay calm,
No need for alarm,
It only hums,
It doesn't harm.
25. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs
26. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick
27. The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
28. Kanta is a masai girl, she can tie a tie and untie a tie, if Kanta can tie a tie and
untie a tie, why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie?

*More tongue twisters are available at the following sites:-

www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html
www.fun-with-words.com/tongue_twisters.html
http://www.eslpartyland.com/articles/tongue-twisters.html
www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

Tongue Twister Competition

Score Sheet
No. Name Pronunciation Fluency Total Eliminated
60% 40% 100% (X)
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Participants

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Adjudicators
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Activity 3

TOPIC Spot the differences

TIME 80 minutes
PREPARATION A set of two similar pictures with differences
STEPS 1. Students find a partner to work with
2. Teacher gives the pictures to students
3. Students are to describe the picture to his/her partner orally
without showing the picture to him/her.
4. The partner will compare with his/her picture and spot the
differences.
5. Teacher helps and guides them to describe the pictures.
6. Students may change roles.

Sample of pictures

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(pictures taken from http//www.images.google.com.my)

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Activity 4

TOPIC Guessing game

TIME 40 minutes
PREPARATION Flashcards and a list of words
STEPS 1. Teacher chooses a student
2. Student holds a flashcard with a word on it
3. Other students are to guess what the word is by asking
questions for clues
4. Student with the card can only answer yes or no.
5. After 20 questions asked, other students have to guess the word
6. Students take turn to hold the cards.

The list of words

Umbrella Tiger Computer

Water Ice cream Cow
Tree Sun Television
House Car Dictionary

Sample of questions and answers

Questions Answers
Are you a living thing? No
Are you a type of food? Yes
Do children like you? Yes
Do you have flavours? Yes
Are you colourful? Yes
Do you taste hot? No
Can people buy you from a shop? Yes
Do you come in boxes? Yes
Are you always expensive? No
Are you an ice-cream? Yes