Here we have a nice collection of English tongue twisters with I. These silly but challenging sentences use both the long and short I vowel sounds.
If you aren’t familiar with these terms, it is all very simple. Short I words have a quick short I sound, and long I words have a longer drawn-out sound. Look at these examples and say them aloud to notice the difference –
Short I – big, pin, pit, zip, kid, picture, chicken, and dinner.
Long I – wine, tiger, fire, dry, tie, flashlight, and drive.
Easy right? You can also find more information on the long I words page along with information on their spelling. Now that you have an understanding of these two sounds, go ahead and see if you and your students can pronounce these interesting sentences correctly. To make them more challenging, try saying them several times and as fast as possible.
The letter I tongue twisters are –
1 – The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
2 – Itchy inchworms itching, itchy inchworms itching, itchy inchworms itching.
3 – Ike ships ice chips in ice chips ships.
4 – It is a nice night for a white rice fight.
5 – I see Isis’s icy eyes.
6 – I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
7 – Extinct insect instincts, extinct insect instincts, extinct insect instincts.
8 – Pretty kitty kipper kitten, pretty kitty kipper kitten, pretty kitty kipper kitten.
9 – An ill Italian kitten in the kitchen eating chicken innards.
10- Irate Irishmen kick and spill instant milk.
11- Strict vegans eat chips and dip keep fish dishes out of reach.
12- Idra’s fifth pink kite flight might end at midnight. If the flight is alright it will reach a high height.
13- The nice lime pie slice is mine and the fried rice with mince is my wife’s.
14- Ricked picked a lid from the sink and flicked it.
15- The wild sight of bullfights on weeknights.
16- Mice on dry white vines climbing outside.
17- In India, it’s ideal to wear indigo skintight.
18- Kim, Jim, and Tim all swim with squid to slim.
19- It’s a thrill to drill twigs and sticks in the mist.
20- The tin fixing kit is on the brick.
21- It is wise to hide in the pines tonight, why die from a lion bite?
22- It isn’t ideal to iron inside icy igloos in Iceland.
23- His kin sit and think of him winning.
24- Five ibex and impalas inhabit Indonesia illegally.
25- I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
26- I miss my Swiss miss and my Swiss miss misses me.
27- Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly impractical instruments.
28- How much ice could an icebreaker break if an icebreaker could break ice?
29- He took a chilly dip six feet in the sea and said it keeps him fit.
