 English pronunciation practice with tongue twisters from espressoenglish.net Are you ready for some advanced English pronunciation practice? Try these tongue twisters. 1. Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a pack of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers, where's the pack of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? A pack is a unit of measurement equal to about 8 quarts, or 7.6 liters. Peppers are a type of vegetable, and pickled peppers means the peppers are preserved in vinegar. 2. A big bug bit a bold bald bear and the bold bald bear bled blood badly. A bug is another word for insect. Bald means the bear has no hair, and bled or bled in the past is when blood comes out of your body. 3. She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure. Or if she sells seashells on the seashore, then I'm sure she sells seashore shells. On the seashore means near the ocean or on the beach, and this is a seashell. 4. Swan swam over the pond, swim, swan, swim. Swan swam back again, well swum, swan. Swim is the present tense, swam is the past, and swum is the past participle. A pond is a small body of water, and a swan is a type of bird. 5. This is considered one of the hardest tongue twisters in the English language. The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick. A sheik is a leader of an Arab family or village, and this animal is a sheep. Now let's try all the tongue twisters fast. Ready? 1. Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a pack of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers, where's the pack of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 2. A big bug bit a bold bald bear and the bold bald bear bled blood badly. 3. She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure, for if she sells seashells on the seashore, then I'm sure she sells seashore shells. 4. Swan swam over the pond, swim, swan, swam. Swan swam back again, well swum, swan. 5. The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick. Thanks for watching English Tips from espressoenglish.net. If you liked this video, please share it.