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Unit 3 Humorous Stories about Famous People. Extension Activities Alice Chiu. Main Menu. Activity One : Brain Teasers Activity Two : More Riddles and Jokes. Activity One. Brain Teasers. Instruction.
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Unit3Humorous Stories about Famous People Extension Activities Alice Chiu
Main Menu • Activity One: Brain Teasers • Activity Two: More Riddles and Jokes
Activity One Brain Teasers
Instruction • To add some fun to the class, let’s try the following 15 brain teasers. Each puzzle contains a phrase or an idiom. Have fun.
Brain Teaser 1 hurry up Y R R U H
Brain Teaser 2 downpour P O U R
Brain Teaser 3 Two thumbs up B B M M U U H H T T
Brain Teaser 4 She forgets everything. SHE GET GET GET GET EVERYTHING
Brain Teaser 5 to be or not to be BB BB
Brain Teaser 6 o s e g o goose bumps
Brain Teaser 7 go for it GO it it it it
Brain Teaser 8 double play PLAYPLAY
Brain Teaser 9 eye contact EYEEYE
Brain Teaser 10 just between you and me UJUSTME
Brain Teaser 11 an afterthought Thought an
Brain Teaser 12 reading between the lines R/E/A/D/I/N/G
Brain Teaser 13 feeling under the weather WEATHER FEELING
Brain Teaser 14 partly cloudy CLODY
Brain Teaser 15 three blind mice MCE MCE MCE
End of Activity One Back to the Main Menu THE END
Activity Two More Riddles and Jokes
Instruction In this activity, there are two tasks for you. • Task One: 7 riddlesSolve the fun riddles together. • Task Two: 3 jokesHelp finish the jokes by adding a pun or a punch line to the story.
Riddle 1 The doctor is the mother. • A father and his son were in a car accident. The father died. The son was taken to the hospital. The doctor came in and said: I can't do surgery on him, because he's my son. Who was the doctor?
Riddle 2 Saturday and Sunday because the others are week(weak) days • What are the two strongest days of the week?
Riddle 3 Heat is faster because we can catch the cold. • Which is faster, heat or cold? Why?
Riddle 4 No-eye deer. (No idea.) What do you call a blind deer?
Riddle 5 language • Think of words ending in –GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you read carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Riddle 6 watermelon • There was a green house. Inside the green house was a white house. Inside the white house was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Riddle 7 e • The beginning of everything, and the end of space. What am I?
Joke 1 Tense • One day, Ms Jones, an English grammar teacher, was looking ill. Her student, Tom, asked, “What's the matter?” “__________," answered the teacher, describing how she felt. Tom thought for a while, then continued, “What was the matter? What has been the matter? What might have been the matter... ?”
Joke 2 A puppy. • Some students bought their teacher a gift for his birthday. Before opening the gift, the teacher shook it slightly, and noticed that it was wet in the corner. Touching his finger to the wet spot and tasting it, he asked, “A bottle of wine?” The students answered, “No.” Again, he touched his finger to the box and tasted the water. “A bottle of beer?” His students replied again, “No.” Finally the teacher asked, “I give up. What is it?” His students said, “________”
Joke 3 Well, I don’t know. My wife told me to stand here. • In heaven, God wants all married men to make two lines: one is for those who say they are the bosses in their families, and the other one is for those who admit that their wives are the bosses. All men stand in the second line except one guy. God gets angry with those men who stand in the second line, “Shame on you! I created you but you were all controlled by your wives!” He turned to the only one man in the first line and says, “Tell them, my son. How did you manage to be the boss in your family?” Replied the man, “_________”
End of Activity Two Back to the Main Menu THE END