Riddles in English

Welcome! Today: Riddles

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This lesson contains 21 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

Lesson duration is: 45 min

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Welcome! Today: Riddles

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Aims

I will have solved English riddles together with my classmates

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Get ready!

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Riddle #1: What has to be broken before you can use it? Only fill in the word! (no article!)

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An egg!

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Riddle #2: I am tall when I am young. I am short when I am old. What am I?

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It's a candle!

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Riddle #3: What can't talk, but will talk back when spoken to?

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It's an echo!

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Riddle #4: The more there is of me, the less you see. What am I?

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Darkness!

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Riddle #5: You are running in a race and pass by the person who is in 5th place. What place are you in? Write down the number only!

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You will be in 5th place

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Riddle #7: What begins with 'e' and only contains one letter?

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An envelope!

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Riddle #8: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?

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STONE!

Remove the letters

'St'

You'll be left with

'one'

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Riddle #10: What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

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A teapot!

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And the winners are ...

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