Teenagers: Warmers: Riddles

Thanks to David in Penang for this activity:

Aims

• To get students thinking
• To have fun using English
• To foster team work and stop children just calling out and attention-seeking. If they don’t confer about the answers, they could easily lose their chance to win. You might have to allocate a secretary / representative for each team to speak on their behalf.

Procedure

• Explain the game clearly.
• Divide the class into teams of up to 6 students each.
• As you read each clue to the riddles out, teams can guess what the answer is. If they are correct after one clue they score 5 points; after two clues, 4 points, and so on.
• If a team gives the incorrect answer, they cannot have another try until the next riddle.

Students could prepare more of their own riddles for homework to be used in subsequent games.