英语教学常用谜语

小学英语教学常用谜语

1.What letter is a part of the head? (I)

2.What is in the middle of night? (G)

3.What letter is not “I”, and it is not “he” or “she”? (U)

4.What letter is a drink? (T)

5.What letter is an insect? (B)

6.What do you have in December that you don’t have in any other month? (D)

7.What’s the difference between here and there? (T)

8.What’s the end of everything? (G)

9.One minus one isn’t zero. (H)

10.One plus three isn’t four. (B)

11.A snake is climbing out of the hole. (Q)

12.What three letters make a man of a boy. (A-G-E)

13.What four letters could end a game of hide and seek? (O-I-C-U)

14.He has a big red cap. He has a colourful dress. When he sings in the early morning,

the sun rises. Who is he? (rooster)

15.I am white, I have red eyes. I have a short tail and long ears. I like carrots. What

am I? (rabbit)

16.He has a long nose, like a hook. He has two large ears, like fans. His legs are like

pillars. His tail is like a pig-tail. Who is he? (elephant)

17.An insect has a long tail. Its eyes are green. It flies here and there. It looks like a

small plane. (dragonfly)

18.An animal is wearing a green coat. And it has two big eyes. It only eats bad

insects, just like a little guard in rice fields. (frog)

19.I’m small. I’m grey, too. My nose is short. My tail is long. Who am I ? (rat)

20.It has a hea d but no neck. It is very very cold. It has wings but can’t fly. It has no

feet but can walk in the water. (fish)

21.What animal wears big black glass? (panda)

22.My first is in “class” but not in “glass”. My second is in “hand” and also in “ask”.

My third is no t in “small” but in “little”. I am an animal. (cat)

23.What animal has a head like a cat, eyes like a cat, tail like a cat, but isn’t a cat?

(kitten)

24.Spell mousetrap with three letters. (cat)

25.What kind of key can kick very hard? (donkey)

26.What kind of key lives in a zoo? (monkey)

27.Which is a key to a special dinner? (turkey)

28.When you pull me, I am like a cane; but when you push me, I am like a tent.

(umbrella)

29.What room has no walls, no doors, no floors and no windows? (mushroom)

30.The outside of it is cold but co lorful. The inside of it is lot but dull. It doesn’t care

when you are hungry. It helps you when you are thirsty. ( a thermos)

31.I have two legs, but I can’t walk. (trousers)

32.I have four legs, but I can’t walk; I have two pockets, but only for bags. (desk)

33.I have no arms and no hands. I have four legs, you can sit on me. I can stand, but I

can’t walk. Guess what am I ? (chair)

34.I have no eyes or nose. I can’t come or go. I stand on the wall. On my face

teachers write and draw. (blackboard)

35.You have it. You read it. There are some pictures in it. What is it? (book)

36.I am a very big box. Too cold thing in my job. I have one or two doors. I stand

near the wall. People like to give me things. So I have orange juice and soft drinks.

(fridge)

37.On my face I have two or three hands. I have no mouth or eye. But I can tell the

time. Tick tock, tick tock. My hands can walk. (clock)

38.What word stop a truck with one hand? (policeman)

39.What word becomes shorter if you add two letters to it? (short)

40.What ring is square? (a boxing ring)

41.What five-letter word has six left whtn you take two away? (sixty)

42.It is yours but others use it more than you do. What is it? (your name)

43.What has a bed but never sleeps? (a river)

44.Who is oldest settler in the west? ( the sun)

45.What house weights the least? (a lighthouse)

46.What is always at the head of fashion, yet always out of date? (F)

47.What word is always pronounce wrong? (wrong)

48.What begins with T, ends with T, and is full of T? (Teapot)

49.Which is the favourite land of children? (Disneyland)

50.Who always goes to bed with his shoes on? (horse)

51.What letter is a circle? (O)

52.What stands in the middle of the world? (R)

53.What table has no leg? (timetable)

54.What large instrument do you carry in your ears? (drums)

55.What is too much for me, just right for two, but nothing at all for three? (a secret)

56.What person tried to make you smile most of the time? (a photographer)

57.What can travel around the world and still stay in one corner? (computer)

58.What trees do fortune tellers look at? (palms)

59.What would you call a wooden king? (ruler)

60.What kind of dog is interested in sports? (a boxer)

61.How many months have 28 days? (all of them)

62.What is the difference between the North Pole and the South Pole? (the whole

world)

63.What kind of school did the king run? (a knight school)

64.Wha t question can you never answer “yes” to? (“Are you asleep?”)

65.What is a piece of pie in Italian? (a pizza pie)

66.When is a house not on land nor on water? (when it is on fire)

67.What bird can you use to lift heavy weights? (a crane)

68.What do people do in a clock factory? (They make face all day.)

69.What is a perfect name for a selfish girl? (Mimi---me, me)

70.What is a center of gravity? (the letter V)

71.When Columbus discovered America, where did he stand? (on his feet)

72.What has teeth but cannot eat? (a comb)

73.What kind of man can raise things without lifting them? (a farmer)

74.What are the three quickest ways to spread news? (telephone, telegraph, and

telegirl--- tell a girl)

75.Why does a cook wear a high, white hat? (to cover his head)

76.What bee is good for your health? (vitamin B)

77.What dog keeps the best time? (a watchdog)

78.What is stormy weather for mice and rats? (when it rains cats and dogs)

79.Where does afternoon always come before morning? (in the dictionary)

80.What wears a cap but has no head? (a bottle)

81.What wears covering in the summer and goes bare in the winter? (tree)

82.What rises in the morning and waves all day? (flag)

83.What is pronounced like ont letter, written with three letters, and belongs to all

animals? (an eye)

84.What is the difference between the rising and setting sun? (a day)

85.Can you spell jealousy with two letters? (NV---envy)

86.How can you tell clocks are shy? (Because they always have their hands in front

of their faces.)

87.What is taller sitting down than standing up? (a cat)

88.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of? (trouble)

89.What cannot be seen but only heard, and will not speak unless it is spoken to? (an

echo)

90.What kind of bow can’t never be tied? (rainbow)

91.What gets bigger when you turn it upside down? (the number 6)

92.What does no man want, but no man wants to lose? (a bald head)

93.What can you swallow that can also swallow you? (water)

94.What person does every man take his hat off to? (barber)

95.Where does Superman do his grocery shopping? (at the supermarket)

96.A doctor and a lawyer loved the same girl. The lawyer went away for a week and

gave the girl seven apples before he left, why? (Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away)

97.What has panes and doesn’t ache? (a window)

98.What is the best thing to keep in hot weather? (cool)

99.What is never used until it’s broken? (an egg)

100. How many sides does a circle have? (two--- inside and outside)

101. How would you change a pear into pearl? (add the letter L)

102. What is dark but made by light? (a shadow)

103. If you take half from a half dollar, what’s left? (a d ollar)

104. What can you break with only one word? (silence)

105. What is the best and cheapest light? (daylight)

106. What travels around the earth without using a single drop of fuel? (the moon) 107. What stays indoor no matter how many times you put it out? (the light)

108. What’s there in your house that ought to be looked into? (a mirror)

109. I am something that has a head and a tail, but no body. ( a coin)

110.What falls often but never gets hurt? (snow)

111. I am something that can run but can’t wal k. (water)

112. What country is useful at mealtime? (China)

113. What color is rain? (water color)

114. How long is a shoe? (one foot long)

115.Which can move faster, heat or cold? (Heat, because you can catch cold.)

116. Which of the four seasons is the most literary? (Autumn, because then the leaves are red---read.)

117. What three words are most often heard in the classroom? (I don’t know)

118. What has cities with no houses, rivers without water and forest without trees? (a map)

119. What part of your body has the most rhythm? (your eardrums)

120. What is always filled when it is used and empty when at rest? (a shoe)

121. Where can you always find money? (in the dictionary)

122. What goes up and never comes down? (your age)

123. What word of only three syllables contains twenty-six letters? (alphabet)

124. I am something that every living person has seen, but no one will ever see me

again. What am I? (yesterday)

125. What ten-letter word starts with GAS? (automobile)

126. What has a hand but can’t scratch itself? (a clock)

127. What bell never rings? (a dumbbell)

128. What is it that we often return but never borrow? (thanks) 129. How can you spell “hard water” in three letters? (ice)

130. The greater it is, the less it can be seen. What is it? (darkness)