Riddles

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Riddles

What you need today:

1. Join the Lesson Up

2. Pen & Paper 

What to do today?

1. Open and read the riddles

2. Solve the riddles together in English

3. Write the answers down 

Solve the riddles

1

What belongs to you but your friends use it more than you do?

2

Josh has 5 sons and each of them has a sister. How many children does Josh have?

3

What weighs (weegt) more: a pound of feathers or a pound of iron ?

4

A boy kicks a football. It goes 10 feet away and comes back to him. How is this possible?

Solve the riddles

5

If it took 8 people 10 hours to build a house, how long would it take if 14 people build the same house?

6

A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?

7

What has a face and two hands but no legs?

Solve the riddles

1

What belongs to you but your friends use it more than you do?

2

Josh has 5 sons and each of them has a sister. How many children does Josh have?

3

What weighs (weegt) more: a pound of feathers or a pound of iron ?

4

A boy kicks a football. It goes 10 feet away and comes back to him. How is this possible?

5

If it took 8 people 10 hours to build a house, how long would it take if 14 people build the same house?

6

A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?

7

What has a face and two hands but no legs?

Discuss the answers

- 1 point for each correct answer

Answer key

1. Your name

2. 6 (a sister, means 1)

3. both the same. A pound is a pound

4. it goes up in the air and comes back again (gravity)

5. None, the house is already built! (SAME house)

6. No one. A coconut tree hasn't got bananas.

7. A clock

Guess the song

1. 🍉🧁⬆️

2. 🧳🙋🌞

3. 👵🏻🏙️🛣️

4. 🚫💔♥️

5. 🌊👀

6. 🌧️🔛👩🏼

7. 🏃🏻👶🏽

8. 💭🤔🔊

Answer key

1. 🍉🧁⬆️ Watermelon Sugar High - Harry Styles

2. 🧳🙋🌞 Cover Me in Sunshine - Pink

3. 👵🏻🏙️🛣️ Old Town Road - Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus

4. 🚫💔♥️ Nothing Breaks Like  a Heart - Miley Cyrus / No broken hearts - BeBe Rexa 

5. 🌊👀 Ocean Eyes - Billie Eilish

6. 🌧️🔛👩🏼 Rain on me - Ariana Grande & Lady Gaga

7. 🏃🏻👶🏽 Runaway Baby - Bruno Mars

9. 💭🤔🔊 Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

A woman was born in 1948 but only celebrated her 16th birthday quite recently.

Answer: 

She was born on February 29th (leap day).

What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?

Answer:

Your left hand