Answers

1. Answer: 11 ( t-h-e a-l-p-h-a-b-e-t).

This riddle is ideal for getting students to think about spelling and to review the alphabet.

2. Answer: A clock.

This riddle focuses on specific vocabulary related to clocks. It can also encourage a discussion about the many uses or double meanings of English words. For example, “face” on a person and the “face” of a clock and “hands” of a person and the “hands” of a clock.

3. Answer: A school.

This riddle explores a rather common English idiom: the relationship between “seeing” and being “enlightened” or “knowledgeable.”

4. Answer: One.

This riddle is fun for the rhyming and pronunciation practice.

5. Answer: Your voice.

You can explore the different senses with this riddle and look at adverbs such as “never.”

6. Answer: The letter “M.”

Reviewing words for time. Also, you can review the adverbs “once” and “twice,” which are common phrases used in English.

7. Answer: C (sea).

Here students must explore the idea of homonyms.

8. Answer: Short (Short-er).

Students must think about spelling to solve this riddle. Additionally, you could introduce a discussion about comparative adjectives such as “shorter” or “longer.”

9. Answer: Envelope.

Again, another brain teaser that tests students’ range in vocabulary and spelling.

10. Answer: Wrong.

Students must think very carefully to analyze what word it could be.