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1.Riddles

1. What is full at night but empty in the daytime?

2. Where was bill when the lights went on?

3. Which hand do you use to stir soup - the right hand or the left hand?

4. How many lions can you put in empty cage?

5. What is found in the very centre of both america and australia?

6.What part of London is in france?

7. What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was but always will be?

8. How many birthdays does the average person have?

9.What is white outside and yellow inside?

10.What is without hands and without feet, without head or body, but can open a door?

11.What is white and falls on the top of the roof?

12.What goes to every town and relates its message to everyone?

13.What goes without moving from its place?

14.What goes quicker than the wind and the rain?

15.The little old woman who has 12 children: some short, some long, some cold, some hot. What is it?

16. It’s true, I have both face and hands and move before your eyes; yet when I go my body stands, and when I stand I lie.

17. What is it that a man cannot live without?

18. We have friends. They cannot walk, and cannot see,

But they are very good to you and me.

With these friends we sail on ships and ride on trains

And even fly in airplanes.

These friends show us towns, seas and lands,

Can you who are these friends?

2.Hidden words

Animals in hiding

1.That will be a real help.

2.She came late every day.

3.He came to America today.

4.Eric owes me ten cents.

5.Do good workers succeed?

6.If I shout, he’ ll hear me.

7. If roger comes’ we’ll begin.

8.Is it the sixth or seventh?

9.In april I only came once.

10.She clothes naked babies.

3. A code message

Yyur

Yyub

Icur

Yy4me

4.The empty cupboard

Old mother hubbard

Went to the cupboard

To get her poor dog a bone.

When she got there

The cupboard was bare

And so her poor dog had none.

Mrs. Hubbard exclaimed:

Oicurmt!

Can you tell the meaning of what she said?(Hint: it is six words)

5.Find the name of the river.

If you use the correct letters at the beginning of the following words, these letters, read vertically, will spell the name of a river in England.

-heatre

-oliday

-fternoon

-useum

-xercise

-treet

6. Do you know the ABC?

The figures below mark the order of letters in the English alphabet. Insert the required letters and you will get the names of a) a part of the body; b) a season; c) a colour.

a) 12,5,7

b) 1,21,20,13,14

c) 25,5,12,12,15,23

7.Can you complete the sentences with missing words? They are pronounced alike but spelt differently.

Don’t come … early. Come … lunch about … o’clock.

8.Can you complete the following well-known sayings?

As cunning as a … .

As quiet as a … .

As brave as a … .

9.Finish the following proverbs and sayings.

Actions speak louder … .

Deeds are louder … .

Appetite comes … .

Everything comes to whom … .

First think,… .

10.Who waits, than words, than speak, than words, with eating.