Dental fricatives in English

[barush]

I have a phonetics class focused solely on pronunciation in English (none of us are native speakers). My friend and I have a presentation on dental fricatives next week, which sounds pretty straightforward, but the teacher told us not to focus on the theory so much and make it 'original' and 'interactive'. Basically, she told us to think of some

Comments

[archaicos]

Here's one idea: http://youtu.be/INOL2zVv7mw :)

[ceruleancat]

Tongue twisters? Although I can't recall offhand one that plays on the dental fricatives.

[gr_cl]

"The Leith police dismisseth us"

[paulistano]

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

[paulistano]

OP: I think this is a great idea. I just did a cursory scan of the tongue twisters at http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm and found a handful that use a lot of dental fricatives. I think it'd be really fun!

[virre]

I don't know if dental fricatives in English is a particular problem for learners from your native language background, but if so, maybe you could find some youtube videos or songs with celebrities/politicians/etc who pronounce them in a peculiar way, and show it to the class? Not to make fun of them or anything, but to highlight where the problems typically are in your language population and what can be done to make the pronunciation more nativelike. The tongue twisters sounds like a great idea too, though :)