Riddles in English

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Welcome! Today: Riddles

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

Today
  • Lesson aims
  • Explaining the game
  • Playing the game
  • Revealing the winner
  • Gimkit?

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Aims

I will have solved English riddles together with my classmates

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Today: Riddle game
Everyone is going to get a number. That is your team number.
Every team will sit together and will need 1 laptop.
The teacher is going to show riddles. 
Your team will get 25 seconds to discuss in English what the answer is.
The person with the laptop will type the answer in the LessonUp. The team with most points wins a prize!

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Teams
Remember your number well.
No switching!
Make sure you can discuss together and that one person brings a laptop.

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Log in

Go to LessonUp and log in.
Think of a fun team name.

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

Get ready!

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 8 - Open vraag

An egg!

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 10 - Open vraag

It's a candle!

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 12 - Open vraag

It's an echo!

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 14 - Open vraag

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!

Slide 16 - Open vraag

You will be in 5th place

Slide 17 - Tekstslide

Riddle #6: What has a head and tail, but no body?

Slide 18 - Open vraag

It's a coin!

Slide 19 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 20 - Open vraag

An envelope!

Slide 21 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 22 - Open vraag

STONE!
Remove the letters
'St' 

You'll be left with
'one'

Slide 23 - Tekstslide

Discuss with your team what image best resembles how you are doing so far.

Slide 24 - Poll

Get ready for the next riddles!
8 more to go!

Slide 25 - Tekstslide

Riddle #9: What has 4 wheels and flies?

Slide 26 - Open vraag

A garbage truck!

Slide 27 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 28 - Open vraag

A teapot!

Slide 29 - Tekstslide

Riddle #11: What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

Slide 30 - Open vraag

A deck of playing cards!

Slide 31 - Tekstslide

Riddle #12: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

Slide 32 - Open vraag

Silence...

Slide 33 - Tekstslide

Riddle #13: I have a single eye but can’t see. What am I?

Slide 34 - Open vraag

It's a  needle!

Slide 35 - Tekstslide

Riddle #14: What kind of room has no walls or corners?

Slide 36 - Open vraag

A mush-room!

Slide 37 - Tekstslide

Riddle #15: I can heal and kill without touching you. What am I?

Slide 38 - Open vraag

Time can heal you and kill without touching you!

Slide 39 - Tekstslide

Riddle #16: Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?

Slide 40 - Open vraag

The word 'short'

Because short + er = shorter

Slide 41 - Tekstslide

And the winners are ...

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