Ms Aldorino-2017

Phonology & Phonetics I

Consonant Clusters
 Oral Practice
Tongue-Twisters 

A proper copper coffee pot. 

 Mixed biscuits, mixed biscuits.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
A 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?

 She sells seashells down by the seashore. The shells she sells are seashore shells.

Three grey geese in green fields grazing.

We surely shall see the sun shine soon. 

 How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

More consonant practice 

 Are these sacks those that you want?

 She showed me some machine-made horseshoes

o The great king gave his guests magnificent gifts of gold.

 I can’t measure the pleasure I have in viewing this treasure at leisure.

 They chopped up the chairs with a cheap, chipped chopper.

o What will you wear, a white waistcoat or a woolen sweater?

 Don’t tickle Tessie, Tom; tickling Tessie’s naughty.

 The driver was drunk and drove the doctor’s car directly into the deep ditch

o I acquired a quaint copper kettle in the market.

 Just for a joke, George and James mixed gin and ginger with the general’s jam.

 Tie the things that you have together with some string.

o Do you think this method is mathematically right?

 The poor peasant prayed that the panther wouldn’t pounce.

 The trip by train took a tiresome twenty-two hours.

 For lunch, Charles chose a cheap chop and some chips, with cheese and cherries afterwards.

 I f you go digging in the garden, don’t forget to get your old grey gloves.

o The buds on the bare boughs are about to burst into b lossom.