[General] Students' tongue-twisters

[englishhobby]

I asked my students to make their own tongue-twisters and promised them to ask native speakers' opinion about them. So could you please take a look at them and say if my students could use some of them at school during their teaching practice. If you think that some sentences are very strange or unnatural to a native ear, we would be happy to know it anyway. Can you vote for some ?
1) Sweety sisters sell silly sweaters.
2) Serious Sandy said sadly: "Sarah, send me a small soap."
3) Sasha sells sausages on the seashoore of Seychelles.
4) Sleepy Susy sees the sea. Then she sneezes and says "Bless me".
5) Guys go for grilled goose in the garden by the grove. But do they get good garnish for their gold goose?
6) Tall Todd talks about the ton of tomatoes.
7) A happy pair pays a penny per pen and pencil.
8) Six sweet sausages sing six silly songs.
9) Sandy's sparrow is a sorrow. It's still silly, and so is she.
10) The slim snake is in the grass. It says "ssssss".
11) Miles away goes a guy with a smile, but what's the size of his smile tonight?
12) My kind Simon and I buy a tight bike. That's why we ride all the time.
13) Sixty-seven salty sticks send some sour cream for 6,66.
14) This pie is mine. I tied a tie, and the pie is so high that I want to cry.
15) Greedy Gang are going to the grave.

 

[jutfrank]

To be honest, they don't really work very well as tongue twisters for a native speaker, as they are all quite easy to say. They might be good practice for learners in some way, though.

 

[emsr2d2]

A lot of them contain repeated sounds that are just too easy. The sibilant "s" sound and the hard "g" sound, for example, just aren't difficult to repeat. Encourage them to try tongue-twisters with repeated "th" and "sh" sounds. One of my favourites combines "th" and "s":

Theo Thistler was a thistle sifter.
He sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles into a sieve of sifted thistles.
Then he sifted a sieve of sifted thistles into a sieve of unsifted thistles.
Because Theo Thistler was a thistle sifter.

Good luck!

 

[Tarheel]

Number 3 is at the top of my list. (It's not very hard though.)

 

[Rover_KE]

I can't say (except very slowly) 'The sixth sheikh's sixth sheep's sick'.

 

[Tdol]

Number 3 is at the top of my list. (It's not very hard though.)

I agree that it is the best- it may not be hard for native speakers, but it mixes sounds well and may be good practice for learners.

 

[englishhobby]

Thanks to everyone! Yes, I agree that they are not really tongue-twisters. I would say they are just sentences which contain some particular sounds. The aim was not to "twist your tongue", but to repeat one and the same sound a few times. So they can just be called "sentences for practicing some particular English sounds". To be honest, I wanted to know native speakers' opinion as to whether the sentences sound natural or not to a native ear, not whether they are hard to pronounce (I know they are quite easy to say).

 

[jutfrank]

As Piscean says, there is really no need for them to sound natural if the point is simply to practise producing the sounds.