Friday 30 September 2011

BRAIN TEASERS
& .
RIDDLES (continued)

Teachers can use these riddles during their English lesson to make it fun and interesting. It can attract their students attention and help them learn in fun. Come and try it.....

11.What common English verb becomes its
      own past tense by rearranging its letters?


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12. An iron horse with a flaxen tail.
     The faster the horse runs,
     the shorter his tail becomes.
     What is it?
.

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13.Who is your mother's
      only sister's son's brother's
      aunt's daughter's sister's father?

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14. What force and strength cannot get through,
      I with a gentle touch can do.
      And many in the street would stand,
      were I not a friend at hand.
      What am I?


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15.What holds water, but is full of holes? 


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16.When asked how old she was, Mary replied, "In two   
     years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago."  
     How old is she?

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17.The more you take the more you leave behind. 
     What are they?
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18. If you had only one match, on a freezing winter day,     
      and you entered a room which contained a lamp, a  
      kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove,       
      which should you light first.
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19.What goes around the world and stays in a corner?

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 20. What turns everything around, but does not move?
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Answer:
11. Eat ~ Ate
12. A needle and thread  
13.Your Father
14.A Key
15.A sponge.
16. 12 years old 
17. Footsteps
18. The match
19. A stamp
20. A mirror

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