DeNet. Communication Skills. Pre-Int. Unit 3. Tongue Twisters

1. What is your result of remembering words?

What can you tell us about English words?

2. What is a tongue twister?

What is it for?
Why are tongue twisters so popular?

3. Read the 4 tongue twisters quickly:

4. Have fun with some more tongue twisters

5. Story Time with the Pre-Listening activities for Me and My Cat.

Lands_A2 Module 1 Me and My Cat Lesson 1

Lands_A2 Module 1 Me and My Cat Lesson 1

Pre Listening Activities

Activity 1. Look at the picture. Who is the author of Me and My Cat? story?


- Elijah Wood
- Satoshi Kitamura

Activity 2. Click on the link, listen to English sounds. and tongue twisters.
Be ready to write down some of the tongue twisters and learn them y heart.

Activity 3. Which of the following words is the Odd One Out?

1 a) lick b) kick c) scratch
2 a) scratch b) punch c) drag
3 a) rush b) punch c) hop
4 a) stretch b) hop c) stop
5 a) bend b) sit c) spend

The key
1 scratch
2 punch
3 hop
4 stretch
5 sit


Activity 4. Try to guess the meaning of the words looking at the pictures.

1 lick	2 pur	3 scratch
4 sharpen	5 punch	6 kick

Activity 5. Match the words and pictures.
1 lick
2 scratch
3 kick
4 punch
5 sharpen
6 pur

a	b	c
d	e	f

Activity 6. Try to guess the meaning of the verbs looking at the pictures and reading definitions.

1 stroke: to move a hand over someone, usually for pleasure	2 brandish: to wave something in the air, especially a weapon	3 challenge: to invite someone to compete or take part, especially in a game or argument
4 drag: to make someone go somewhere they do not want to go	5 pull: to move something towards yourself, sometimes with great physical effort	6 rush: go or do something very quickly
7 hop: If a small animal, bird or insect hops, it moves by jumping on all or two of its feet at the same time	8 leap: to make a large jump, usually from one place to another	9 chase: to hurry after someone or something in order to catch

Activity 7. Match the verbs and definitions.

1 brandish	A to make a large jump, usually from one place to another
2 drag	B to hurry after someone or something in order to catch
3 pull	C to wave something in the air, especially a weapon
4 rush	D to make someone go somewhere they do not want to go
5 hop	E to move a hand over someone, usually for pleasure
6 leap	F to move something towards yourself, sometimes with great physical effort
7 chase	G go or do something very quickly
8 stroke	H If a small animal, bird or insect hops, it moves by jumping on all or two of its feet at the same time
9 challenge	I to invite someone to compete or take part, especially in a game or argument

Activity 8 Which word (when used in the Past Simple Tense) is the odd one out?

lick, scratch, kick, punch, sharpen, pur, brandish, drag, pull, rush, hop, leap, chase, stroke, challenge

The key
leap: it can be regular (leaped) and irregular (leapt), all the other verbs are regular (licked, scratched, kicked, punched, sharpened, purred, brandished, dragged, pulled, rushed, hoppped, chased, stroked, challenged)

Activity 9 Click on the links and fill in the missing forms of the irregular verbs.
Irregular verbs 1
Irregular verbs 2
Irregular verbs 3
Irregular verbs 4
Irregular verbs 5
Irregular verbs 6

Activity 10 Fill in the missing forms of the irregular verbs.

- come send spend think throw wake

was/were came - spent - - -

been - sent - thought thrown woken

What new tongue twisters have you learnt?