Riddles
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:11 am (Riddles)
(The picture above is illustrated by one of Kitty’s students. With the aid of the picture, a teacher can make a riddle more embodied for students to make a good guess.)
Teacher’s teaching powerpoint
Teaching plan for teachers’ reference
(This broadcast can be applied as supplementary material when teaching Lesson 1, Book 1 & Lesson 4, Book4 in Far East English Reader for Senior High Schools in Taiwan.)
Do you like riddle-guessing? Do you know any puns in English?
Let’s listen to Jenny’s broadcast about riddles.
Outline of the Broadcast:
Hi, this is Jenny. Welcome to our talk show…......Here are 20 riddles I like.
R1 : Why are Saturday and Sunday the strongest days?
R2 : In which country are their people always shaking their heads?
R3 : What kind of key can’t open locks but kicks?
R4 : Whose house is always clean?
R5 : In which country will you be frozen to death?
R6 : What day do chickens hate most?
R7 : If you drop a white shirt into the Red Sea, what does it become?
R8 : What animal takes part in baseball games?
R9 : What kind of fish comes out at night?
R10 : Why did Father throw the butter into the sky?
R11 : What time is it when ten lions are chasing one zebra?
R12 : What has a head and a tail?
R13 : Why are fish well-learned?
R14 : What tree does everyone carry in his hand?
R15 : What bird is found in your throat?
R16 : How is your body like a church?
R17 : What has four wheels and flies?
R18 : A man walks up to you and says – “everything I say to you is a lie.” Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?
R19 : A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.How can this be possible?
R20 : A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50.”The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the man writes he’ll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
Keywords & Sentence Patterns by Kitty
Students’ Audio Comments
by Class30533
by Class30507
by Class30541
by Class30537
by Class30528
Students’ Multi-media Work
by Class30541PowerPoint
Claire said,
March 24, 2006 at 12:33 pm
I think the pictures in the powerpoint are very colorful. And the riddles are not that difficult, whether they took me quite a long time to guess them out!
Latte said,
March 24, 2006 at 12:36 pm
The riddles are fun, but it needs some wisdoms for me to guess them out.
Student said,
March 24, 2006 at 12:37 pm
I think the pictures in the powerpoint are very colorful. And the riddles are not that difficult, whether they took me quite a long time to guess them out!
celloli said,
March 24, 2006 at 12:39 pm
There aren’t any riddles I can guessXD
celloli said,
March 24, 2006 at 12:40 pm
ohhhhh~
These riddles are so amazing!!
but…a little cold!!
HA!!
JAMES said,
March 24, 2006 at 12:48 pm
OH
FANTASTIC riddles
I can’t help admirng this topic
i’ve never listened to so great riddles like these
i think i will surf on this blog every day
oh Jesus
let me ask you a riddle
what back does not have a backache ?
make a guess!
The answer is ....... BROKEBACK
haha~
JAMES said,
March 24, 2006 at 12:48 pm
OH
FANTASTIC riddles
I can’t help admirng this topic
i’ve never listened to so great riddles like these
i think i will surf on this blog every day
oh Jesus
let me ask you a riddle
what back does not have a backache ?
make a guess!
The answer is ....... BROKEBACK
haha~
celloli said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:46 am
yeah…i’ve already finished these riddles!
and i like the Q14 the best because the riddle is so cool!
i’ll keep surf this blog after school…..30528
35033 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:51 am
I like the first riddle the most, i think “Norway” that’s a great answer, and it reaslly got me , here i would like to give you some riddles : what is the longest word in English? And what is black and white and “red” all over?
Here’s the answer for the first one: Smiles
and the secound answer is News paper 30533
30501 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:52 am
I like the radio.The DJ’s voice is beautiful.The second riddle is my favorite.Beacuse it is really funny.
shitmen said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:52 am
yaya i’d like all of them cause acturelly i don’t have any special feeling about them gogogo~ale~ale~ale 30532
30537 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:52 am
oh
these riddles are good
it’s so fantastic that I’m totally amused
I holp we can have more riddles to enjoy everyday
so please make more riddles for us
so we will live a more colorful life
and i also think it can helps us with our learning
not only on English but helps us with thinking
I can’t help but admiring the sites
i would like to surf on the page every day
I hope the site can make a big progress
among the 20 riddles i like the butterfly best.
because no body can figure out the answer easily
and the answer.butterfly is so funny that I think nobody won’t laugh about it
30533 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:53 am
I like the first riddle the most, i think “Norway” that’s a great answer, and it reaslly got me , here i would like to give you some riddles : what is the longest word in English? And what is black and white and “red” all over?
Here’s the answer for the first one: Smiles because it’s a Mile long…
and the secound answer is News paper it’s “read” all over…
Li-Te said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:54 am
My favorite riddle is riddle no.19. I think it is quite amusing, and it is also one of the few riddles I didn’t figure out. It really takes me alot of time when I was thinking of the answer to the question. However I didn’t guess the correct answer when I finally think of one that I firmly believe it was right. And it really made me down for a while, but when I saw the correct solution it made me burst out laughing. Thankyou for providing such interesting jokes, and may you amuse yourself with jokes everyday. 30541
celloli said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:54 am
I think i must leave a message again because the funny jokes
make me burst into laughing.but i really have nothing to say
because they are so cool,in other words,they are so “funny”.
30528
30517 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:55 am
I like the Q8 “What animal takes part in baseball games?”.”The bat” is the
answer,and the anwser is very interesting. The word “bat is associating
to baseball. And the imagine is very abundant. So l like this riddles.
It sounds like a cute jokes.
30535 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:55 am
My favorite riddle is Q13:Why are fish well-learned?If you get the answer,it is shows that your english is also “well-learned.”Because it requires some english knowledge.Furthermore,fish is my preference.
30536 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:56 am
I don’t like it at all. Beacause it’s too boring. If i must chosse one.
I will chosse…umm…it’s reallly hard to chosse one i like. I chosse quention 9.
30526 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:56 am
I like the “Q8 : What animal takes part in baseball games?” the best because the riddle is so cool! And my English is so broke. But it is easy let I can see and think about the answer.
9 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:56 am
It`s really interesting that guessing the riddles. Among all the riddles, i like Q11 the most. I was not sure how to say the time correctly before then. If it were not been for the riddle,i would never knew the right answer.
30539 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:56 am
I think this blog surely spent you many times
there are many funny jokes there
i think it will many peoplecome to this blog
i hope.
30531 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:57 am
These riddles are not so funny because of its junior level.
But should i speak lies,ok,the first riddle makes me laugh reluctantly.
“Why are Saturday and Sunday the strongest days? “Oh,God!What a boring
joke.But among these awful sentences it is the best.The riddles of 澀谷
would be more funny ideedly.His words are saturated with wisdom.To sum
up,only the wise riddles can muse peopple.
30508 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:57 am
Among the 20 riddles,riddle14 is tke one I like most.
“Palm” has two means,one is a kind of trees, and the other is hand.
So the riddle asks “what tree does everyone carry in his hand?”
I think it’s really funny!30508
Steven said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:58 am
Now naive very happy can participate in this to move teacher the untold hardships preparation this website to be able to let us have the more fine learning environment I most to like 13th riddle some riddles having the pun unison synonymy to let me obtain benefits a great deal is very grateful can have this experience to let me have a step of understanding to English 30540
綾玥~30527 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:59 am
The most favorute riddle I like is Q8. Becaues it has relations about baseball Taiwanese are making mud now ,I have an extrmely interest in sport.
Despite the fact that Q8 is a radiculos ‘’cold joke’‘,I still have some fun from it.It is also telling me to know more and more words as well as fufill my vocabulary!
30510 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:59 am
I like this way to learn english . It is fun to me. But I still can not knows what about the Q20 want to tell us“. “Q2 : In which country are their people always shaking their heads?” This is my favorite riddle. It can makes us laugh when we see. But the “America style humor” is too cold to me!”
30530 said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:59 am
iI like the Q1.Because i can’t apprximately reply to the quesion .
The” weekday ” is regard as week.I feel it that fill with creation
I think the imaginary answer i can,t think.
30534 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:00 am
I like riddle 19 best. A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.How can this be possible? It is truely a interesting riddle that took me a lot of time to think. Ocationally,we should take it easily rather than complicate it.In this way,we could solve the riddle sooner.30534
30524 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:00 am
I think this topic is very interesting.Among of these riddles,I regard Q11 as the most funny and interesting one.Q11 makes me so happy.Because ten lions are chasing one zebra,the answer is ten after one.When I knew the answer,I felt superised.Then l ran into laughter.I feel this blog very nice.
30538 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:01 am
All the riddles are foolish…most of all,thenumaber20,which is the idiotest question,and its answer also nonesense.
What a marvelous class!
I feel be scorned.It is not good.
Those riddles hurt my heart.I will never play this again.30538
30513 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:01 am
I like Q2 most.The answer is “Norway” ,it is like “No Way”.I think it is very funny and cute.As far as I am concerned ,the brainstorming is interested,and it does us good.If we join it every now and then,it can make our brain more efficient ,and let us learn with amusement.
30514 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:02 am
I like the Q1:Why are Saturday and Sunday the strongest days?. Because this one is which I can understand sentence. And this answer I can comprehend only.My english is very bad, so I cannot guess out the answer. but, when I got the answer, I think it is not very difficult. Maybe I can learn English from the riddle.
.....30516 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:02 am
The riddles are very fun. And they are quite difficult for me to guess out. The one that impress me the most is “a head and a tail” riddle, which is about a coin! I like its picture in the powerpoint, it looks colorful as well as cute. It is a difficult riddle for me, costing a lot of time to come up with the answer. When I got the answer, all I think is that how easy it was! And it seems that I was really fool and stupid in the failure of figuring it out. The riddle designer is really creative and imaginative, who can make so many interesting questions and draw the beautiful illustrations.
30518 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:02 am
I like the riddle “What has a head and a tail?”the most. Becouse my english is very poor. When I saw the letter “head”,I only thought of this is a organ in our body. And the word“tail”the same. If the riddle without the feed, I must can’t know the answer is “coin”. Therefore I like the riddle the most.
30505 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:02 am
I like those riddles very much . Espacially , the number 1 riddle .
I feel that it was funny . And this riddle is not difficult for me . It can let me discover its answer easily . Therefore , I like this riddle most . But I think others are interested , too . It really a good activities for evryone .30505
30511 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:03 am
All of those riddles, I favorite Q10:Why did Father throw the butter into the sky? The answer is: butterfly. The riddles is very funny account of it can
associated butter with butterfly. They are dionysian. And I feel the picture of this question is very beauty.
30515 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:03 am
I had a soft spot of the Q18 A man walks up to you and says – “everything I say to you is a lie.” Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?
The answer is he still lying ! Because he say “everthing”
In the final anlysis. It is really a funny riddle. The riddle is beyong my expectations.
30520 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:03 am
I like the Q10 riddle-What kind of fish comes out at night?
The answer is school.Because we always say a school of fish.
It’s interesting to know a world have different meaning.
I considerd the DJ named Jenny is very outstanding.
She speaks English very fluently.
30502 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:04 am
I think these riddles are really very funny. But some of them let me think that they are not riddles but jokes when I saw the answers of them. My favorite riddle is the Q18. For that it let me felt it was not only a riddle but also a logical question. When I read it, I felt funny, and I have an interested in this kind of question. The riddle is really an interesting question!
30522 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:04 am
My favorite riddle is the first one.The answer to the question is fun, and we can get the meaning at the first sight we see the answer.Though the others are fun, too.But they are a little difficult to guess the answer which aren’t easy to know the direct meaning.
These riddles are fun. However it’s not easy to guess. We have to know lots of vocabularies if we want to know the answer. And the first one don’t have the problem.
30525 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:05 am
In these funny jokes,i have a favor of the guestion 2” In which country are their people always shaking their heads? ” Incredibility to me,the answer is “Norway” which sounds like “noway.” We can associate “shaking head” with “to turn down.” Isn’t it funny and amusing ?
Ivy said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:05 am
The riddle I like is Q2.
This funny joke is really very interesting to me.
The word,SWALLOW,has two different meanings.
There are many riddles that I could not solve.
They were too difficult for me.
Every pictures with the riddle are wonderful.
I hope I could know more riddles.
Thank you .30521
30504 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:06 am
I think riddles are very interesting. I like Q2 most. Because it is easy to
guess the answer. Guessing the riddles need more patience and persevement . Then I can get breathtaking consequence. Even though the
answer is the funny joke.
Amy said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:07 am
I like Q10. Although it isn’t hard to geuss the answer, I can’t help but think of a picture in which a man is throwing a butter into sky, and the butter falls back onto the man’s head. And the man goes mad. It’s really a funny picture.
This riddle makes me think of a question,” what’s the relationship between a butterfly and flying butter? “It’s hard to answer. 30523
Sherry said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:08 am
The riddle I like most is “Why are fish well-learned?” When I wrote the composition, I am always confused about the quantifier which I should use.
By this riddle, I can remember it hands down. With this amusive and imaginative riddle, I assume that this riddle is the most enlightened riddle that I ever heard. .........30512
Iris said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:09 am
In this talk show, I learned some words that I didn’t know in the past.
Amoung these riddles, I like the six most.Beacouse I didin’t learn what
it really means while I see the correct answer at first. However, I looked
at the picture again and then I smiled. It’s interesting to know the answer,
especially imaging what the chickens will be.I think, maybe I will love
English more than ever by this talk show.
30519 said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:09 am
It so intreseting for me!The riddles not only have many funny joke
but also have some knowledge that we can learn from it.
The most I like is the Q2 and Q10.Because it is easily to
get the answer though imagination.Other question should have
some basic English grammar.But if you don’t know,you can though
the answer to learn some English grammar,such as a school of fish,
plam have two means etc.
Iris said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:10 am
In this talk show, I learned some words that I didn’t know in the past.
Amoung these riddles, I like the six most.Beacouse I didin’t learn what
it really means while I see the correct answer at first. However, I looked
at the picture again and then I smiled. It’s interesting to know the answer,
especially imaging what the chickens will be.I think, maybe I will love
English more than ever by this talk show. 30506
Andy Lin said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:11 am
The riddle I favor most is the question 5. In any language we use, there are several words with the same pronunciation. As a matter of fact, it is the amusement of learing language. Just like Chinese we speak, we usually make fun of some words of its pronunciation. Question 5 uses the same skill. Chlie sounds like chilly. It is interesting, isn’t it? We cound encounter the same experience not merely in English, but also in such language as Chinese, Japanese, France. That is what makes us fun in learning a language. 30529