Try some Italian with your class for the European Day of Languages
Can you challenge your pupils to pronounce these Italian tongue twisters ( audio versions of the tongue twisters available here)
Sopra la panca la capra campa sotto la panca la capra crepa
( over the bench the goat lives, under the bench the goat dies )
Apelle figlio di Apollo fece una palla di pelle di pollo, tutti I pesci vennero a galla per vedere la palla di pelle di pollo fatta da Apelle figlio di Apollo
( Apelle, Apollo’s son, made a ball from chicken skin, all the fish came to the surface to see the chicken skin ball made by Apelle, Apollo’s son)
Trentatre trentini entrarono a Trento tutti e trentatre trotterellando
( thirty-three people from Trento entered Trento; all thirty-three trotting )
– tigre contro tigre
( tiger against tiger)
-un limone, mezzo limone
due limoni, mezzo…
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