Riddle Lesson

Level: int People: Time: 50 min

Goals

Students have to read clues and figure out some riddles.

Materials

You can use one of two riddles:

Einstein Riddle Matt’s Riddle

Preparation

Print the respective riddle and familiarize yourself with how to solve it. Depending on the level of your students you may have to help them a lot.

Procedure

  1. You could start your warm up with a talk about comparatives if you’re doing the Matt Riddle or something to get them thinking like odd one out TO_LINK or just list off some riddles TO_LINK
  2. Introduce the new words and phrases they will need to know to do the puzzles.
  3. Hand out the riddle clues and charts and explain the instructions.
    • You can do groups and split the clues between students (3-4 clues per student) so they have to read the clues to each other to practice listening.
  4. As students work, walk around the room and help them with the tricky parts.

(New) Vocabulary

Einstein Riddle Matt Riddle
to the left of～ ～の左に cousins いとこ
neighbor お隣さん border 隣る・接する
center 真中 least～ 一番～ない・元も少ない

Homework

The Einstein Riddle is sometimes a bit hard, so I let students finish it for homework. If they bring it in later I’ll give them a prize.