Tongue Twiaters:

1. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
2. I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.
3. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
4. A sailor went to sea To see, what he could see. And all he could
see Was sea, sea, sea.
5. Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
6. How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could
chuck wood
7. Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
8. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, FuzzyWuzzy
wasn’t very fuzzy… was he???
9. If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug
bleed?
10. Crisp crusts crackle and crunch.
11. Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.
12. Growing gray goats graze great green grassy groves.
13. Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
14. If two witches were watching two watches: which witch would
watch which watch?
15. Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
16. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
17. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
18. Four furious friends fought for the phone
19. The cat catchers can’t catch caught cats.
20. Three fluffy feathers fell from Phoebe’s flimsy fan.
21. Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
22. Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
23. She should shun the shinning sun.
24. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
25. She sold six shabby sheared sheep on ship.
26. Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.
27. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
28. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not
worth noticing
29. The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
30. Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
31. Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
32. Susie sits shinning silver shoes
33. Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads
34. Does your sport shop stock short socks with spots?
35. Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight.
36. The boot black brought the black boot back.
37. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
38. Super-duper storm troopers whoop it up at Death Star groupers:
helmet thrashing, rebel bashing, laser blasting at party poopers.
39. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
40. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
41. Daddy Draws Doors
42. No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.
43. Green glass globes glow greenly .
44. Clean clams crammed in clean cans
45. A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara.
46. She sees cheese.
47. Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
48. Six socks sit in a sink, soaking in soap suds
49. Shave a single shingle thin.
50. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
 Draw the idiom:
1."Not my circus, not my monkey"
Language: Polish
Translation: Nie mój cyrk, nie moje malpy
Meaning: Not my problem
While more cryptic than just saying “not my problem”, the Polish expression “not my circus, not
my monkeys” makes perfect sense, and is a lot more fun to say. Poland can offer a traveller
some difficulties in terms of cultural customs – holding your thumbs means good luck, not
crossing your fingers, for example. You’ll probably need a bit of luck, what with all those monkeys
running around.

3. "To have a wide face"

Language: Japanese
Translation: Kao ga hiro i
Meaning: To have many friends
We all know that Asian countries have the best proverbs. Well, they also have some fantastic
idioms too. “Having a wide face” means you have lots of friends and are well liked. It could be
based on reality, as men with wide faces supposedly earn more money and are more attractive to
women. Or it could come from the Chinese concept of “face”, which is where we get our own
term, “losing face”, from.

6. "A cat's jump"

Language: German
Translation: Katzensprung
Meaning: A short distance away
“A cat’s jump” is in the minority of German idioms in that it doesn’t refer to either beer or
sausages. Katzensprung simply means a short distance away, or “a stone’s throw” as we’d say in
English. Use whichever one you’d prefer, it’s all sausages to us.

8. "To ride as a hare"

Language: Russian
Translation: Exatj zajcem
Meaning: To travel without a ticket
As home to the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia probably has quite a few train-related idioms. “To
ride as a hare” means to ride the train without a ticket, as we all know hares are prone to do.
Apparently it comes from the fact that fare-dodgers would shake like a hare whenever the ticket
inspectors would come round.

"To let a frog out of your mouth"

Language: Finnish
Translation: Päästää sammakko suusta
Meaning: To say the wrong thing
Finnish idioms have a lovely tone to them, often referencing Mother Nature and their homeland.
Having “rye in your wrists” means to be physically strong, for instance, while “own land
strawberry, other land blueberry” reflects Finns’ love for the motherland. “Letting a frog out of your
mouth” means to say the wrong thing, which makes sense, as spitting a frog at someone is
almost always the wrong thing to do.

 Piece of cake.
 Spill the beans.
 Fish out of water.
 Cat got your tongue.
 Skating on thin ice.
 Who let the cat out of the bag?
Schwein gehabt! - If you've won the lottery, aced an exam that you didn't study for, 

o Not all cups in the cupboard

If he doesn't have "alle Tassen im Schrank," then he happens to be crazy. English speakers would
similarly say he's gone mad, or he's "lost his marbles."

o I understand only train station

The German phrase, "Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof," doesn't mean the speaker speaks only the
language of train stations. Rather, the statement indicates utter confusion. A comparable English
phrase would be, "It's all Greek to me."

o Life is not a pony farm

Suck it up, cowboy. When the going gets tough, someone is bound to remind you that "das Leben
ist kein Ponyhof." In other words, life isn't fair, it's not a bed of roses, nor is it a bowl of cherries.

o I have the nose full

"Ich habe die Nase voll" could potentially be interpreted to mean aning that someone needs a
tissue. But more than likely it means enough is enough: The speaker is fed up with a particular
situation.

o Beautiful celebration night!

If your colleagues wish you a "schönen Feierabend" after a day in the office, they're hoping you
have a pleasurable post-work evening. Don't be fooled by hard-working Germans: They know how
to play just as hard. So much in fact, that once Germans clock out - even after a night shift that
ends at 6:00 am - the remainder of the day is considered a party.

o It's sausage to me
Now that you're off work, maybe you're open to suggestions on how to spend your post-work
celebration. If it doesn't matter what you do, tell your friends, "es ist mir Wurst," and they'll know
you're not talking about sausage, but that you really don't have an opinion one way or another.

o Lies have short legs

Stretching the truth might work in the short term, but it won't last. In the long run, "Lügen haben
kurze Beine," which means the falsehood won't withstand time and could at some point come
back to haunt you. The only thing these Dachshunds have in common with lies, is that they also
have short legs.
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Traditional dishes in European countries:

All the colours of the rainbow are: (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)

black schwarz (shvahrts)

red rot (roht)
blue blau (blou) - rhymes with "cow"
yellow gelb (gelp)
green grün (gruun)

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Rhyming: Ask kids to think of rhymes to some of these words. The child who came up with the
Sun – fun pan – can
Car – star table – able
Bee – tree bath - math
Wet – pet – net snail – mail
Boot – root talk – walk
Book – hook – cook fake – cake – wake
Bake – cake – take jar – bar – car
Clock – sock five - hive
White – kite ten – hen – pen
Pool – school wish –fish - dish
Bright – night – sight sink - blink
Bubble- trouble – double - puddle – cuddle deep – keep – sleep
Phone – zone – home -tone feast - least
Rain – train twin – pin-bin –tin- win