It's season recap time, and this time around it’s all about tongue twisters! I’ve chosen ten for us to work through today, to cover all of the sounds from this season, which have been /r/ (a lot of that), /e/, /ɜ:/, /eə / and /eɪ/, and of course the /r/ and /l/ clusters from the last few weeks.

Firstly, to practise /ɜ:/, but with an /l/ cluster in there too (as well as some non rhotic /r/s), a very short one: 

1. Burger burglar.

Next, one mixing /ɜ:/ and /e/

1. A nurse unearthed a nest.

Now on to /eɪ/, with some other vowels in there too, and I love this one too for the /l/ and /r/ practice:

1. A maid named lady marmalade made mainly lard and lemonade

And a second one, with some nice /gr/ clusters too:

1. Eight great grey geese grazing.

Next, for /eə/, with a bonus intrusive /r/:

1. Fair bears care about hairy bears.

Now to /r/.

The first one is great for anybody who struggles with /r/ and /w/:

1. Will these real wheels really wheel? 

The next is one of the classic English tongue twisters, I wonder if you’ve heard it before?

1. Red lorry, yellow lorry.

The second has /r/ and /l/:

1. Truly rural, purely rural. Truly rurally, purely rurally.

OR we can put a linguistic twist on it.

·       Truly plural, purely plural. Truly plurally, purely plurally.

The next refers to the plant ‘broom’ rather than the broom we use to sweep with:

1. The broom blooms when the bluebells bloom.

And the final one has some /gr/ and /gl/ tongue twisters:

1. A growing gleam glowing green.

OR 

·       A glowing gleam glowing green.