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

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

Riddles game
Form groups of 2-3. Give your group a name. 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, use the group name)!

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Which word is always spelled incorrectly?

Slide 3 - Open vraag

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

Slide 4 - Open vraag

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

Slide 5 - Open vraag

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

Slide 6 - Open vraag

What do you call a bear with a missing ear?

Slide 7 - Open vraag

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

Slide 8 - Open vraag

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

Slide 9 - Open vraag

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

Slide 10 - Open vraag

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 11 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 12 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 13 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 14 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 15 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 16 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 17 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 18 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 19 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 20 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 21 - Quizvraag

Your group discusses the riddle. 
You can ask your teacher  yes/no questions. 
If you  think you've solved the mystery, share your theory!
Correct? You score a point!

Slide 22 - Tekstslide

Black Stories
Black stories are tricky, mysterious stories about bad things. There's always some kind of riddle to solve.


Slide 23 - Tekstslide

Thank you
A woman goes into a pub and orders a glass of water. The man behind the bar grabs a rifle and aims it right at the woman. She thanks him and leaves.

(Answer on the next slide)

Slide 24 - Tekstslide

Thank you (answer)
The woman had hiccups and wanted to get rid of them with the water. The man behind the bar understood straightaway and wanted to help her by giving her a real scare. It worked!

Slide 25 - Tekstslide

Murder with impunity
A woman shoots dead her husband. The police lead her away but let her go free later.

Slide 26 - Tekstslide

Murder with impunity (answer)
The woman had already served a long prison term for murdering her husband. It was a miscarriage of justice (= a mistake), for her husband had actually run off.

Because she had already been punished for his murder, the police saw no reason to keep her locked up any longer.

Slide 27 - Tekstslide

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 28 - Tekstslide

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 29 - Tekstslide

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 30 - Tekstslide

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 31 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 32 - Tekstslide

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 - Tekstslide

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 - Tekstslide

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 35 - Tekstslide

Backwards
Jonathan takes a step backwards, and dies.

Slide 36 - Tekstslide

Backwards (answer)
Jonathan was window cleaning near the top of a high-rise. Before finishing his work, he used the mirror-like windows of the building to tidy his hair because his new girlfriend was waiting for him down below.

Finally, Jonathan decided to check his appearance 'in full' and took one (last) step backwards.

Slide 37 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 38 - Tekstslide

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 - Tekstslide