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Can you solve these riddles?
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Speaking activities
Can you solve these riddles?

Slide 1 - Diapositive

Riddles game
Form groups of 2-3. With your partner(s), take 1 minute to discuss the answer to the riddle shown on-screen, then type your answer into Lessonup (1 person per group)!

Slide 2 - Diapositive

What happened?

Slide 3 - Question ouverte

Which word is always spelled incorrectly?

Slide 4 - Question ouverte

Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Slide 5 - Question ouverte

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?

Slide 6 - Question ouverte

David's mother has three children. The first is called May, the second June. What is the third child called?

Slide 7 - Question ouverte

What do you call a bear with a missing ear?

Slide 8 - Question ouverte

What belongs to you, but is used by others far more than you use it yourself?

Slide 9 - Question ouverte

Rich people need this, but poor people already have it - and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

Slide 10 - Question ouverte

What begins with T, ends with T and has T inside it?

Slide 11 - Question ouverte

How can I put my left hand in the right pocket of my jeans and my right hand in the left without crossing my arms?

Slide 12 - Question ouverte

Cowboy Bill rode into town on Friday and rode out two days later on Friday. How can that possibly be true?

Slide 13 - Question ouverte

Fake news!
In the same groups, take a look at the following statements. Were these things really said by Donald Trump, or are  they fake news? Discuss briefly then select your answer!

Slide 14 - Diapositive

"I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."
A
Fake news
B
True

Slide 15 - Quiz

"I think I would use social media, as President, better than possibly any of all the 44 previous presidents."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 16 - Quiz

"I'm just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and give it to Trump, right?"
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 17 - Quiz

"I've no reason to visit Dubai, we have plenty of sandy beaches and oil in the USA."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 18 - Quiz

"Theresa May is a useless prime minister, she should ask me for advice on Brexit."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 19 - Quiz

"I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 20 - Quiz

"I think I am actually humble (=bescheiden)."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 21 - Quiz

"I'm happy to take advice from China, as long as it's on how to build a wall."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 22 - Quiz

"I will build a great wall - and nobody builds walls better than me."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 23 - Quiz

"The beauty of me is that I'm very rich."
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Fake news
B
True

Slide 24 - Quiz

The funeral guest
At her mother's funeral, a woman sees a man she doesn't know. A few days later, she murders her sister.

Slide 25 - Diapositive

What happened?

Slide 26 - Question ouverte

The funeral guest (answer)
During the funeral, the woman fell hopelessly in love with the man. He, however, disappeared immediately after the funeral before she could ask him his name. She hoped to see him again at her sister's funeral.

Slide 27 - Diapositive

The terminal taxi
Tim gets into a taxi. When the driver opens the door for him at the train station, Tim falls out of the vehicle, dead.

Slide 28 - Diapositive

What happened?

Slide 29 - Question ouverte

The terminal taxi (answer)
A spider collector had forgotten his extremely venomous spider in the taxi. Tim, who happened to be the next passenger, panicked when he caught sight of the creature, and was immediately bitten.

Slide 30 - Diapositive

The sauna
A dead man is lying in a sauna; next to him, a thermos flask.

Slide 31 - Diapositive

What happened?

Slide 32 - Question ouverte

The sauna (answer)
The man had been stabbed to death with an icicle. His murderer had brought the icicle into the sauna in the thermos flask. It melted a short while later, and so the murder weapon was never found.

Slide 33 - Diapositive

The light switch
A man living in an isolated building turns on the light every evening on his way to bed. One morning, while listening to the radio, he suddenly runs out and throws himself into the sea.

Slide 34 - Diapositive

What happened?

Slide 35 - Question ouverte

The light switch (answer)
The man in the isolated building was the keeper of one of the most important lighthouses on the coast. That morning, the radio reported the largest shipping disaster of all time.

The night before, the lighthouse keeper had, indeed, forgotten to turn the light on - an unforgivable blunder.

Slide 36 - Diapositive

Deadly meal
A woman gives a man something to eat. Some time later, both of them die.

Slide 37 - Diapositive

What happened?

Slide 38 - Question ouverte

Deadly meal (answer)
The man and woman in question are our Biblical ancestors: Adam and Eve. After Adam ate a piece of the apple, both of them lost their immortality.

Slide 39 - Diapositive