TEKERLEME — NURSERY RHYME

Tekerlemeler bir dili iyi telaffuz edebilme ve o dilde akıcı konuşma açısından önemlidir. İngilizce tekerlemeler aynı seslerin tekrarı ile aksanıda geliştirir. İngilizce tekerlemeler sadece çocuklar için değildir İngilizceyi öğrenmek isteyen tüm meslek gruplarına da yardımcı olur.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pep
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
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How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
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Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
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Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
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Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
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I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
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There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher.

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Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, ’tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
from a commercial
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One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.
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How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
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How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.
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Mary Mac’s mother’s making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother’s making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so Merry when Mary’s taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
from a song by Carbon Leaf

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze.
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.

from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss

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Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.

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How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.

21

Mares eat oats and does eat oats,
and little lambs eat ivy.
A Kid will eat ivy too, wouldn’t ewe?

22

As I was in Arkansas I saw a saw that could out saw any saw I ever saw saw. If you happen to be in Arkansas and see a saw that can out saw the saw I saw saw I’d like to see the saw you saw saw.

23

How many berries could a bare berry carry,
if a bare berry could carry berries?
Well they can’t carry berries
(which could make you very wary)
but a bare berry carried is more scary!