Our Teachers and Tongue Twisters

I had three very good teachers during my stay in the Edinburgh School of English; Kirsty was perfect in imitating us with our country accents in English. We laughed a lot too, when she told us some sentences “from the street” - in different English dialects. She explained us about a lot of nice places in Scotland and some things from daily life, but also about the social problems in Scotland. We learned a lot with and from her concerning pronunciation, like the phonetic spellings – but I think it’s easier for a person to learn, when she or he is musical. For me it was hard work, to do her phonetic crossword.

James our morning and my most intense teacher demanded a lot from us in different ways. First he was very tough in the lessons, we had a lot of homework and he told us a lot of things about what we should do outside of school or at home. I think I would still be in Scotland right now, if I had started to fulfil all his suggestions … ;-)
I think we noticed, that he had also learned another language and he shared with us his own experience and gave us a lot of know how concerning our way of learning English - it wasn't obvious, but he did it. I appreciated his “multinational cultural way” of thinking and living.

Last but not least there was Andrew. We joined his lessons just for four days, but in a smaller group and so it was to our benefit, that we could talk more in class than in the first two weeks. Our discussions were legendary because his theological background and his living in different countries gave us a new point of view and new questions for us to thinking about. I remember his story about the “nae knicker” for a wedding.

But now there are some tongue twisters for people who like them:

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

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.

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.

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.

Shy Shelley says she shall sew sheets.

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?