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Cats Calm Employees
C. Office cats also help to calm employees by keeping stress levels low. Furkids, Georgia’s largest no-kill animal shelter, operates a cage-free environment for cats. The cats are free to roam the office, as well as special kitty living rooms.
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 100
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Was the tongue twister said clearly?
Yes- 100
No- :(
Excerpt from "The Road not taken" by Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 100
Colonel
kur·nuhl
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
CATEGORY
A. KAET-uh-go-ri
B. Kuh-TE-go-ri
A. KAET-uh-go-ri
Cats encourage teamwork
This encourages a better sense of teamwork, as employees work together to take care of their four-legged friends. When workers come together as a team, there is reduced conflict and animosity. This, in turn, helps workers to be happier and healthier in the office.
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 200
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
Was the tongue twister said clearly?
Yes- 200
No- :(
Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 200
Salmon
[ sam-uhn ]
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
CONDOLENCE
A. KON-doh-lens
B. kuhn-DOHL-ens
B. kuhn-DOHL-ens
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead – it’s said like bed, not bead.
For goodness sake, don’t call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 300
I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.
Susie works in a shoeshine shop.
Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.
Was the tongue twister said clearly?
Yes- 300
No- :(
Langston Hughes, “Harlem”
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 300
Stomach
[ stuhm-uhk ]
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
APPLICABLE
A. AEP-li-kuh-bul
B. ahp-LEE-kuh-bul
A. AEP-li-kuh-bul
When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it’s true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard
Cord is different from word
Cow is cow but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, dose, and lose
And think of goose and yet with choose
Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll or home and some.
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 400
Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter, so Betty bought some better butter. And the better butter Betty bought was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before.
Was the tongue twister said clearly?
Yes- 400
No- :(
Muriel Rukeyser, “The Book of the Dead“
These roads will take you into your own country.
Seasons and maps coming where this road comes
into a landscape mirrored in these men.
Past all your influences, your home river,
constellations of cities, mottoes of childhood,
parents and easy cures, war, all evasion’s wishes.
What one word must never be said?
Dead, and these men fight off our dying,
cough in the theatres of the war.
What two things shall never be seen?
They : what we did. Enemy : what we mean.
This is a nation’s scene and halfway house.
What three things can never be done?
Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone.
The hills of glass, the fatal brilliant plain.
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 400
Anemone
[ uh-nem-uh-nee ]
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
ASSOCIATE
A. AH-soh-sheit
B. uh-SOH-shee-eit
B. uh-SOH-shee-eit
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
And then there’s dose and rose and lose
Just look them up — and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward.
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come I’ve hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I’d mastered it when I was five!
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 500
Say this 3 times:
Three thousand speakers were thrown at the throne.
Was the tongue twister said clearly?
Yes- 500
No- :(
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Nameless here for evermore.
Any mispronounced words?
Yes- :(
No- 500
Worcestershire
[ woos-ter-sheer, -sher ]
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
BENEFICIARY
A. ben-uh-FISH-ee-er-ee
B. buh-ne-fish-YAHR-ee
A. ben-uh-FISH-ee-er-ee