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методическая разработка по иностранному языку (3 класс)

RIDDLES ABOUT PARTS OF BODY

Two brothers live across a path, but never see each other.

                                        (Eyes.)

They stand next to each other

And yet they can't see each other.

                                        (Eyes.)

Brother Left,  

And Right, his brother,  

Hardly ever

See each other.  

Mirrors is the only place

Where they're coming face to face.

                                        (Eyes.)

Two brothers,

But they don't see each other.

                                        (Eyes.)

The doors are open in the morning but shut at night.  

If you look into them, you see yourself inside.

                                        (Eyes.)

A little ball can reach the sky.

                                        (An eye.)

What are tears?  

                                        (The greatest water power known to women.)

These two brothers live not very far apart; one on the left, one on the right;  but they never see each other.

                                        (Two ears.)

My timpani play a rhythmic song,

With hammer on anvil I play along.  

Down my canal no ship sets course

And I have a stirrup that fits no horse.  

What am I?

                                        (An ear.)

It hears everything and says nothing?

                                        (An ear.)

A thick forest which grows as fast as it is cut down.

                                        (Hair.)

It can be cut and will grow back. Yet when you least expect it, it may disappear never to return.

                                        (Hair.)

Riddle me, riddle me, what is that  

Over the head and under the hat?

                                        (Hair.)

Never planted,  

Still it grows.  

What's the answer?

Now who knows?

                                        (Hair.)

Why does a man's hair usually turn grey sooner than his moustache?  

                (Because a man's hair is 17 years older than his moustache.)

Why are teeth like verbs?

                (Because they can be regular, irregular or defective.)

Thirty two white horses upon a red hill,  

Now they tramp,

Now they champ,

Now they stand still.

                                        (The teeth.)

What kind of teeth cannot bite?

                                        (The teeth of а comb.)

What is the best thing to put into pies?  

                                        (Your teeth.)

Without it you couldn't say a word.

                                        (A tongue.)

It lives behind a bony wall but is heard by everybody.

                                        (A tongue.)

When is a mouth not a mouth?

                                        (When а bох of sweets makes it water.)

What goes all over the house, but touches nothing?

                                        (Your voice.)

It lives alone between two bright stars.

                                        (A nose.)

Between two little moons I am quite alone.

                                        (A nose.)

What are hands that cannot hold anything?

                                        (The hands of а clock.)

Two mothers have five sons each, and all have the same name.

What are they?

                                        (Fingers and hands.)

When is a nail not a fingernail?

                                        (When it is an iron nail.)

When is it dangerous to have an arm?

                                        (When it is а firearm.)

What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than by yourself?

                                        (Your name.)

What is it that a man cannot live without?

                                        (А name.)

What is it that no one wishes to have, yet no one wishes to lose?

                                        (A bald head.)

What man wears the biggest hat?  

                                        (The one with the biggest head.)

There are eight on a spider,

And six on a bee,

Four on an elephant,

But only two on me.

                                        (Legs.)

It always beats and hops;

It never sleeps or stops;  

Life-long we don't part

With our little ...

                                        (Heart.)

The more of them you take, the more you leave behind.

What are they?

                                        (Footsteps.)

What of us goes up and never comes down?

                                        (Our age.)

What you cannot hold for five minutes, even though it is lighter than a feather?

                                        (Your breath.)

What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?

                                        (A man.)

Two legs sat upon three legs

With one leg in his lap;  

In comes four legs,

Grabs one leg

And runs away with one leg;  

Up jumps two legs,  

Catches up three legs,  

Throws it after four legs,  

And makes him bring back one leg.

                                        (A man, a stool, a drumstick, a dog.)

In the eyes, it causes blindness.  

In the nose, it makes sneezes;  

But some people seek it out,  

And act as though it pleases.

                (Smoke or smoking. An alternative would be “pepper”.)

I weaken all men for hours each day.

I show you strange visions while you are away.

I take you by night, by day take you back,

None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.

                                        (Sleep.)

What can you drop without loosing everything?  

                                        (A bad habit.)

What goes quicker than the wind and the rain?

                                        (Thoughts.)

I went to the wood and I got it;  

I sat me down, and I sought it;  

I kept it still against my will

And so by force home I brought it.

                                        (A splinter.)

I went to the wood and got it;  

I sat me down and looked at it;  

The more I looked at it, the less I liked it,  

And brought it home because I couldn't find it.  

                                        (Thorn in foot.)

What goes up and down at the same time?

                                        (Steps.)