Исследовательская работа " Английские скороговорки"

Contents

I. Introduction_____________________________________

     II. The main part

     1.  The history of “tongue twisters”_______________________

2.  The meaning of the word “tongue twister”_______________

3. Tongue twisters - our helpers__________________________

4. The Use of tongue twisters ___________________________

     5. Memo on working with tongue twisters__________________

     6. Types and the meaning of tongue twisters ________________

III. Conclusion_____________________________________

IV. Resources______________________________________

Key- words

Research- исследование, исследовать

Genre- жанр

Improve- улучшать

Assess- оценивать

Describe- описывать

Skills- навыки

Perspective- перспектива

The aim 

of the research is determining if tongue twisters can help to learn English

Actuality

• English is an international language, which is used almost everywhere.

      The relevance of learning English is dictated by the needs of modern

      world. And using tongue twister in the speech can beautify our language.

Objects

• to find and describe one of the most popular genres of speech- tongue twisters

The Method

- studying the theory

- finding information in the encyclopedia

- browsing the Net

My hypothesis - tongue twisters can help to learn the English language

and improve our articulation and pronunciation.

Introduction

 Tongue twisters are a great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency. They can help also to improve accents because it is one of the ways of repetition of one sound. They are not just for kids, but also used by actors, politicians and public speakers, who wants to sound clear.

The aim of my research is determining if tongue twisters can help to learn English. This paper explains various possibilities for the use of tongue twisters. This research was conducted to establish whether young learners read tongue twisters.

The objectives: English tongue twisters.

My hypothesis: tongue twisters can help to learn the English language.

1.  The history of “tongue twisters”

Perhaps everyone knows the story of the ancient Greek philosopher Demosthenes. Filling his mouth with stones, he tried to achieve a clear pronunciation of passages of poems, thereby getting rid of defects in his speech. Daily training helped him to improve his speech. Tongue twisters have been screwing up speaking abilities around the world for centuries. As entertaining as tripping over tricky terms can be, early English twisters were also used to teach pupils proper speech. In a note to teachers in his 1878 book Practical Elocution, J.W. Shoemaker reminded them of the "higher motive" of these confounding sayings: "To The Teacher—While many of the exercises ... may create amusement in a class, a higher motive than 'Amusement' has prompted their insertion. Practice is here afforded in nearly every form of difficult articulation."

2.  The meaning of the expression” Tongue twister”

Tongue Twister is the genre of oral folklore. Initially tongue twisters appeared as a word game, fun for kids and adults.  This is an exciting game, which valued the ability to pronounce difficult words clearly and quickly. What is said about tongue twisters in Russian dictionaries and English encyclopedias.

"Скороговорка – шуточный жанр народного творчества, фраза, построенная на сочетании звуков, которые затрудняют быстрое произнесение слов, например: "на дворе трава, на траве дрова". Такое определение дается в словаре русского языка под ред. А. П. Евгеньевой.

Несколько иначе это понятие объясняется в Толковом словаре В. И.

Даля: «Скороговорка – частоговорка, чистоговорка, род складной речи, с повтореньем и перестановкой одних и тех же букв или слогов, сбивчивых или трудных для произношенья». 

“Tongue twister, word or group of words made difficult to articulate by a close sequence of similar consonantal sounds. Tongue twisters are often passed on for generations, becoming a rich part of folklore”  Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica.com

3. Tongue twisters - helper in pronunciation

In English tongue twisters are called tongue twisters-literally "tongue twisters". And indeed, when we say a patter for the first time, we have a braided language, and it does not matter in what language we say (even in their native language they are complex). But the fact is the native language we have known  since childhood. It's another thing when we start learning another language. When we begin to get used to foreign sounds, it is difficult for us to pronounce them, they are too unusual for the brain and speech organs. We learn words, sentences, have an idea of pronunciation. But this is not enough.

It is not enough just to know how to pronounce the sound, you need to practice their pronunciation, so that the brain learns to form the necessary signals, and the organs of speech to perform the required movements. And then we come to the aid of the most common tongue twisters.

Tongue twisters are exercises that speed up this process. They appeared in order to speak as clearly as possible, and if you are a public speaker, your life is one big rehearsal and no chance to miss. At the same time, people who learn English often hear the phrase: "Do not worry about the pronunciation, it is worth worrying about your own silence." In part, we can agree with this. Yes, only partly. Do not envy those who know the rules and is silent, afraid to say the wrong word or forget to put the article.

4. The Use of tongue twisters

We have formulated some tips that will help to make the work with tongue twisters more effective:

 A. Select the tongue twister on the sound you want to work out.

Refine unfamiliar words and understand the meaning of tongue twisters. Note which letters and letter combinations denote this sound in different words.

Pay attention to the correct articulation of the sound.

B. Read all the words of the patter that contain the sound being worked out. Pay attention to the correct pronunciation. In a patter it is necessary to overcome all difficult sound combinations. It is important to pronounce a complex word in syllables, slowly, but without any difficulty.

C. Pronounce each patter first silently, but articulating, then go to the whisper and only then – out loud, clearly pronouncing each sound, first at a slow pace, then in a fast, but remember the clarity in the pronunciation. At the same time, first of all, it is necessary to provide a clear pronunciation and only in the second – to accelerate the pace. If at the usual pace to read the patter without error is not possible, then first realize its meaning to the head there was a clear video, and read slowly, by syllables. Repeat the patter until you read it without hesitation. Then gradually increase the pace.

D. Say the tongue twister intelligently, using logical stress and proper intonation. Try to remember the tongue Twister. To improve your pronunciation, repeat tongue twisters every day. But in order to get a real effect, tongue twisters should be spoken aloud.

 E. It is good to work with tongue twisters on the recorder. This allows you to hear yourself from the outside and effectively correct the shortcomings.

5. Memo on working with tongue twisters

 This paper explains various possibilities for the use of tongue twisters. This research was conducted to establish whether young learners consider tongue twisters. 

A. First of all, they are built for the repetition one sound many times: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!

B. In any place at any time. As a rule, tongue twisters are always quite short so they are quickly remembered and you can repeat them anywhere: at home, on the way home.

C. Cheerfully. Easy to remember. They are primitively simple. But first you have to make an effort to work out the correct and clear pronunciation of the expression.

6. Types and the meaning of tongue twisters

A tongue twister for kids is a game which can be played at anytime, anywhere and at whatever age. It is said that laughter is the best medicine. One of the laughter therapy is a tongue twister.

Here are short tongue twisters for kids which would help them to grow up with their skills. So, enjoy the funniest children’s tongue twisters and keep practicing.

Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids/Children

SHE SELLS SEA-SHELLS

She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure.
For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore
Then I’m sure she sells sea-shore shells.

• On the sea-shore means “near the ocean.”
• Sea-shells are the colorful exoskeletons of marine animals, which you can find on the beach.

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THE SWIMMING SWAN

Swan swam over the pond,
Swim swan swim!
Swan swam back again –
Well swum swan!

• Swim is the main verb; the past tense is swam and the past participle is swum
• A pond is a small body of water
• This bird is called a swan:

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• Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.
• A proper copper coffee pot.
• Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
• Lovely lemon liniment.
• Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
• This is considered one of the hardest tongue twisters in the English language!
• A sheikh is the leader of an Arab family or village.

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• One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.
• A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies

Funny Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids

• I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.  
• Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?
• A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
• If you understand, say “understand”.  If you don’t understand, say “don’t understand”. But if you understand and say “don’t understand”. How do I understand that you understand? Understand!
• I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
• RED BULB BLUE BULB RED BULB BLUE BULB         
• “RED BLOOD BLUE BLOOD”                            
• I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
• if a slithering snail went down a slippery slide would a snail slider or slide down the slide? By S.Walton

Children’s Easy Tongue Twisters

• bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble
• These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue .
• Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
• You curse, I curse, we all curse, for asparagus!
• Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca papaya.
• Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
• Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
• A sailor went to sea To see, what he could see. And all he could see Was sea, sea, sea.
• A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit box.
• Upper roller lower roller Upper roller lower roller.
• Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People

Hard Tongue Twisters for Kids

• If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch? 
• Which watch did which witch wear and which witch wore which watch?
• Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
• I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.
• Once a fellow met a fellow in a field of beans. Said a fellow to a fellow, “If a fellow asks a fellow, Can a fellow tell a fellow what fellow means?”
• How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
• I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Silly Easy Tongue Twisters for Children

• She sells sea shells on the sea shore she sells sea shells no more  – By Sethna Hilla
• I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. And on a slitted sheet I sit. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. The sheet I slit, that sheet was it.
• Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
• The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
• If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does the doctor doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

Short Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids

• The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
• Daddy draws doors. Daddy draws doors. Daddy draws doors.
• Do tongue twisters twist your tongue?
• Friendly Fleas and Fire Flies
• If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
• Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy… was he???
• How many cans can a canner can, if a canner can  can cans?
• A canner can can as many cans as a canner can, if a canner can can cans.
• How much wood could a wood chopper chop, if a wood chopper could chop wood?
• If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
• If Freaky Fred Found Fifty Feet of Fruit and Fed Forty Feet to his Friend Frank how many Feet of Fruit did Freaky Fred Find?
• Penny’s pretty pink piggy bank

Simple Easy Tongue Twisters for Children

• “When a doctor falls ill another doctor’s the doctor. Does the doctor doctoring the doctor the doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the doctor’s way”
• A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, ‘Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?’
• One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
• Black bug’s blood.
• Crisp crusts crackle and crunch.

Preschool Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids

• It’s not the cough that carries you off, it’s the coffin they carry you off in!
• Tie a knot, tie a knot. Tie a tight, tight knot. Tie a knot in the shape of a nought.
• Freshly-fried fat flying fish
• Rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
• Jolly juggling jesters jauntily juggled jingling jacks.
• Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king’s kitchen.
• Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit,

Did Billy Button buy a buttered biscuit?

If Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit,

• Where’s the buttered biscuit Billy Button bought ?
• The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
• A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,

but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

• She saw a fish on the seashore and I’m sure

 The fish she saw on the seashore was a saw-fish.

Final Words for Short Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids:

Every mum wants that her child should be a genius, should be able to win every challenge. Above were Top Best Short and Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids which can be used as Tongue Twister Kids Challenge. So, it’s time to prove yourself kids!

Go and have fun with your friends!

Conclusion

It turned out that tongue twisters are a huge world. English tongue twisters are stored in the language of a grain of folk wisdom. They reflect the history and worldview of the people who created them, their traditions, customs, common sense and humor. There are hundreds of tongue twisters in English. They were created by many generations of people, developed and improved over the centuries. Tongue Twister in English is a small humorous text with a weakly embedded meaning in it. Classes with tongue twisters are a real game that gives a lot of positive results. We can say that there are many types of tongue twisters. I think that any tongue Twister was invented specifically for training. So it was before and so it is now.

Work on tongue twisters is important for future translators, and for business people who by the nature of their activities participate in international conferences, exhibitions, symposia, and just for those who want to be heard. Tongue twisters are a very useful addition by learning English, as you train your language.

Resources

1. Englishdom.com/blog Тор 20 скороговорок на английском языке для улучшения речи

2. Яндекс картинки Польза скороговорок в улучшении качества произношения.

3. Langformula.ru/ tongue twisters Скороговорки на английском языке для отработки произношения

4. CookingWithLanguages.com

5.  FreeDigitalPhotos.net

6.   Lesleycooks.com