Riddles

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Q: What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages?
A: (Try to elicit responses..) Tri-Lingual.
Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A: (Many of them know this one) Bi-Lingual.
Q: What do you call a person who speaks one language?
A: An American

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What is the longest word?
A: Smiles, because there is a mile between the first and last s.

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Re-worded by another teacher.
Q: What's the longest word in the English language?
A: Smiles. (Because there's a mile between the first and the last letter.)

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A: What is the word that everybody always says wrong?
B: "Wrong".

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Q: Is there a word in the English language that uses all the vowels including "y"?
A: Unquestionablely!

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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 have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

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It states, "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?" The third word of that phrase is of course "language." Don't get angry at me, I didn't make it up:)

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Q: When does a dialect become a language?
A: When its speakers get an army and a navy

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Q: Why did God create the man before he created the woman?
A1: The answer that men give: To give him the chance to enjoy Heaven on Earth for a few moments.
A2: The answer that women give: Everyone makes a draft first!

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It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

Nothing. Nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the devil, the poor have nothing, the rich need nothing and if you eat nothing you'll die

Grammar

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Q: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? A: Short

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What is it that gets larger the more you take from it (a hole)

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What word becomes shorter by the addition of a syllable? (short)

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Jokes varia

If a diplomat says Yes, he means Perhaps. If he says Perhaps, he means No. If he says No, he is no diplomat.

If a lady says No, she means Perhaps. If she says Perhaps, she means Yes. If she says Yes, she is no lady.

The captain of the ship calls out: «Who is below?» (in the hold). A ship`s boy answers: «It`s me, it`s Billy, sir» «What are you doing there, Billy?» «I am doing... nothing, sir». «Is Tom there?» «Yes» was the answer. «What is he doing?»

«I am helping Billy, sir».

Helping me, sir

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