TRAVA - LNGUAS

O que um tongue-twister?

O tongue-twister, ou trava-lnguas em portugus, pode ser definido como um agrupamento de palavras que forma uma frase ou sentena que contendo uma sucesso de sons similares difceis de pronunciar, especialmente se reproduzidos com rapidez. Pode-se dizer que trata-se tambm de um jogo, que, centrado em certas dificuldades de dico, diverte e aperfeioa a pronncia. Alguns fonoaudilogos fazem uso de trava-lnguas em terapias da fala como auxiliar no desenvolvimento da habilidade oral. Trava-lnguas so uma forma de diverso, mas tambm podem te ajudar a melhorar a pronncia de certos sons da lngua inglesa. As frases devem ser repetidas diversas vezes, para se notar o efeito sonoro. E quanto mais rpida a pronncia, mais difcil e engraado. Para melhorar a dico, leia-os em voz alta com calma e a seguir procure aumentar a velocidade na fala. Ver que aos poucos sua dico ir melhorar. Have fun!

EXERCCIOS I FCIL

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick. Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watch which Swatch watch? The thick thesaurus with the author A sailor went to sea to see what he could see. A noisy noise annoys an oyster. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup. Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets. Five fine fresh fish for you! The jumbo juggler juggles the jelly in the jug. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose? The worst word in the world is the word world. Fat frogs flying past fast Six silly sisters selling shiny shoes. An Ape hates grape cakes. Six Swiss ships sails swiftly. How many bagels would a Beagle bake if a Beagle could bake bagels? Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward. We surely shall see the sun shine soon Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings. A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits

 A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry. Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir? I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit. Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches? Cheap ship trip. I cannot bear to see a bear Bear down upon a hare. When bare of hair he strips the hare, Right there I cry, "Forbear!" Lovely lemon liniment. Tim, the thin twin tinsmith Flee from fog to fight flu fast! We surely shall see the sun shine soon. Moose noshing much mush. Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers. Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup. My dame hath a lame tame crane, My dame hath a crane that is lame. Six short slow shepherds. Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos. The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs. Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely. Crisp crusts crackle crunchily. The Leith police dismisseth us. Freshly fried fresh flesh. Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.

The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver.

 A bloke's back bike brake block broke. A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed. I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning. Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup. Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.

Hi-Tech Traveling Tractor Trailor Truck Tracker The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders. Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side. They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread. Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- balancing them badly.

MDIO

They have left the thriftshop, and lost both their theatre tickets and the volume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills.

Whereat with blade, with bloody, blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his laboratory. On mules we find two legs behind and two we find before.

We stand behind before we find what those behind be for. One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too. Pick a partner and practice passing, for if you pass proficiently, perhaps you'll play professionally.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fist against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

The seething seas ceaseth and twiceth the seething seas sufficeth us. Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop. Susan shineth shoes and socks; socks and shoes shines Susan. She ceased shining shoes and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan. Swan swam over the sea, Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again Well swum, swan! I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.

Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt

which felt as fine as that felt felt, when first I felt that felt hat's felt.

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grass.

I need not your needles, they're needless to me; For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see; But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed.

I am not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate. I am only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.

One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.

Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. So where is the pack of pickled peppers? Peter Piper picked. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The sea shells she sells are sea shells she is sure.

 A sailor went to sea to see what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Betty bought a bit of butter but the butter Betty bough was bitter so Betty bought another bit of butter to made the bitter butter better butter. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear when Washington's washerwoman went west?

If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister, his tongue will be twisted as tongue-twister twists tongues. If a canner can can ten cans a day, how many cans can ten canners can today? While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie? "Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised. "Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink." A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. Said the flea, "Let us fly!" Said the fly, "Let us flee!" So they flew through a flaw in the flue. Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.

 Two Truckee truckers truculently truckling to have truck to truck two trucks of truck. While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water. There was a young fisher named Fischer Who fished for a fish in a fissure. The fish with a grin, Pulled the fisherman in; Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer

DIFCCIL

Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Now.....if Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb. Success to the successful thistle-sifter!

Suddenly swerving, seven small swans Swam silently southward, Seeing six swift sailboats Sailing sedately seaward.

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker, It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock, Or some stickler who is slicker Will stick you of your liquor

If you fail to lock your liquor With a lock!

Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat. The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat. The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye, And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly. Ned Nott was shot o and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott o than Nott. Some say Nott o was not shot. But Shott says o he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott o was not shot, o or o Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, o Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, o then Shott was shot, o not Nott. However, o the shot Shott shot shot not Shott -o but Nott. Once upon a barren moor There dwelt a bear, also a boar. The bear could not bear the boar. The boar thought the bear a bore. At last the bear could bear no more Of that boar that bored him on the moor, And so one morn he bored the boar-That boar will bore the bear no more.

 If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot To talk ere the tot could totter, Ought the Hottenton tot Be taught to say aught, or naught, Or what ought to be taught her? If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot Be taught by her Hottentot tutor, Ought the tutor get hot If the Hottentot tot Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor? 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 he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors? When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist, For the twisting of his twist, he three twines doth intwist; But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist. Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between, He twirls, with his twister, the two in a twine; Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine, He twitcheth the twice he had twined in twain. The twain that in twining before in the twine, As twines were intwisted he now doth untwine; Twist the twain inter-twisting a twine more between, He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine. Say this sharply, say this sweetly, Say this shortly, say this softly. Say this sixteen times in succession.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south. These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack; sheep should sleep in a shed.

 A tree toad loved a she-toad Who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad But a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win The three-toed she-toad's heart, For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground That the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower With her three-toed power The she-toad vetoed him. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better. A bitter biting bittern Bit a better brother bittern, And the bitter better bittern Bit the bitter biter back. And the bitter bittern, bitten, By the better bitten bittern, Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!" Mr. See owned a saw. And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw Before Soar saw See, Which made Soar sore. Had Soar seen See's saw Before See sawed Soar's seesaw, See's saw would not have sawed Soar's seesaw. So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw. But it was sad to see Soar so sore Just because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw!

 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butterthat would make my batter better." So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter. A tiny tiger tied her tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail.

Pope Sixtus VI's six texts. The sixth sick Sikh's sixth sheep's sick.

 How many cookies could a good cooker cook If a good cooker could cook cookies? A good cooker could cook as much cookies as a good cooker who could cook cookies. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.

Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot. You've no need to light a night-light On a light night like tonight, For a night-light's light's a slight light, And tonight's a night that's light. When a night's light, like tonight's light, It is really not quite right To light night-lights with their slight lights On a light night like tonight.

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

A Tudor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

EXERCCIO II Try to say it as many times and as fast as you can! (Srie de repeties - Tente falar quantas vezes e o mais rpido possvel!)

Perfect purple pepper, perfect purple pepper, perfect purple pepper...

Strange strategic statistics, strange strategic statistics, strange strategic statistics...

Upper roller, lower roller; upper roller, lower roller; upper roller, lower roller...

Baboon bamboo, baboon bamboo, baboon bamboo, baboon bamboo, baboon bamboo...

Rural ruler, rural ruler, rural ruler, rural ruler, rural ruler...

Bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble...

Lorry rally, lorry rally, lorry rally, lorry rally, lorry rally, lorry rally...

Blue blood, bad blood; blue blood, bad blood; blue blood, bad blood; blue blood...

Three free throws, three free throws, three free throws, three free throws...

Knapsack straps, knapsack straps, Knapsack straps, Knapsack straps, Knapsack straps...