Improve your logical thinking. Англійська - це цікаво!

Rhymes:

Good morning, children!

Hello, how are you?

Fine, thank you, dear.

This flower’s for you!

 

                    Hurry! Hurry!

                    Come and see!

                    Today there’s party,

                     Just for me!

Friends and toys,

A cake and a fish,

And candles on the cake

To make a wish!

Of all the toys

In my toy box,

My favourite toy

Is jack-in-the-box!

 

I’ve got two eyes,

A mouth and a nose!

I’ve got two feet,

But I haven’t got toes!

Two hands, two ears,

And lots of hair!

What am I?

I’m a teddy bear!

 

Spring is green.

Summer is bright.

Autumn is yellow.

Winter is white.

I like dogs,

All dogs,

Big dogs and

Small dogs,

Glad dogs

And sad dogs.

But I like best

On land or sea,

The one who

Wags his tail at me.

Are the monkeys climbing?

Yes, they are.

Are the zebras running?

Yes, they are.

Are the tigers walking?

Are the parrots talking?

Are the monkeys climbing?

Yes, they are.

 

Are the penguins swimming?

Yes, they are.

Are the parrots flying?

Yes, they are.

Are the lizards eating?

Are the lions sleeping?

Are the penguins swimming?

Yes, they are.

 

Improve your logical thinking!

 

1) Some months have thirty days, and some months have thirty-one. How many months have twenty-eight days?

 

2) Oksana went to bed at 8 p.m. She set her alarm clock for 9 in the morning. How many hours did she sleep?

 

 

3) Denys and Hanna were playing chess. They each played five games. Each of them won the same number of games, and there were no draws. How is this possible?

 

4) Sashko had five biscuits. He ate one every half an hour.  He ate the first biscuit at 3 p.m. What time did he eat the last biscuit?

 

PALINDROMES

Read about palindromes and think of other ones.

A palindrome is a word or a sentence that can be read forwards or backwards, letter for letter or word for word, or in the case of a palindrome poem, line for line.

Some words are palindromes:

 

REFER          TOOT      LEVEL     NOON     MUM     MADAM

 

Some names are palindromes too:

 

Hannah         Eve     Otto

 

Dates can also be palindromes:

1991     2002      12/8/1821

Sentence palindromes are fun to collect. Try reading these sentences forwards and backwards:

No lemons, no melon.

Live not on evil, madam, live not on evil.

Pupils roll a ball or slip up.

Some palindromes rely on whole words instead of letters. Try reading the words of this poem forwards, and then backwards.

Are you silly? Silly you are!

There you go. Go you there.

Thinking you’re clever! Clever, you’re thinking?

Dear oh dear! Dear oh dear!

Silly as ever! Ever  as silly.

 

Can you think of other palindromes in English?

 

 

 

Riddles

 

I have a face. I have hands. I can run. I can stop. I cannot talk. But I can tell the time. What am I?   (a clock)

 

What has four legs, but is not an animal? ( a bed, a table, a chair)

 

It is a domestic animal. It is not very big. It is grey. It catches mice. ( a cat)

 

What man cannot live in the house? (a snowman)

 

You have it on your face. There are four letters in this word. What is it? (nose)

 

You have them on your face. They can be blue, green or brown. What are they? (eyes)

 

A golden girl sits in the dark, but her hair is out in the sunlight.  Do you know her? (carrot)

 

You can hear me, you can feel me, but you cannot see me. What am I? ( the wind)

 

It moves without legs and flies without wings. ( cloud)

 

What tables have no legs? ( timetables)

 

A man has ten sons and each son has a sister. How many children has the man got? (11)

 

  What has no head, no arms, no legs and still has a tongue? (a shoe)

 

What can play but cannot walk? ( a piano)