50 PUZZLES AND GAMES FOR PRACTISING YOUR ENGLISH DOUG CASEpyri 2 DOUG CASE Ba HEINEMANNHeinemann Games Series Sg; Titles in this series include: English Puzzles 1 Doug Case 0 435 28280 8 English Puzzles 2 Doug Case 0 435 282816 English Puzzles3 Doug Case 0 435 28282 4 English Puzzles 4 Doug Case 0 435 28283 2 Play Games With English Book 1 Colin Granger 0 435 28060 0 Teacher's Book 1 0 435 28061 9 Play Games With English Book 2 Colin Granger 0 435280627 Teacher's Book 2 0 435 28063 5 Word Games with English 1 Deirdre Howard-Williams & Cynthia Herd 0 435 28380 4 Word Games with English 2 Deirdre Howard-Williams & Cynthia Herd 0 435 28381 2 Word Games with English 3 Deirdre Howard-Williams & Cynthia Herd 0 435 28382 0 Word Games with English Plus Deirdre Howard-Williams & Cynthia Herd 0 435 28379 0 Heinemann International A division of Heinemann Educational Books Ltd Halley Court, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8EJ OXFORO LONDON EDINBURGH MADRID ATHENS BOLOGNA MELBOURNE SYONEY AUCKLAND IBADAN NAIROBI GABORONE HARARE PORTSMOUTH (NH) SINGAPORE © Doug Case 1990 First Published 1990 ISBN 0 435 28281 6 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, « stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers. Acknowledgements Thanks to Brigitte Zacharian for help in testing the puzzles in this book, to Michéle Cronick for deft and thoughtful editing, and to them both for many valuable suggestions. Designed, typeset and illustrated by Plum Design, Southampton Printed by M&A Thomson Ltd, East Kilbride, Scotland 91 92 93 9495 1098765432Contents| Introduction pages iv-vi Puzzles pages 1-50 1 Pictures and opposites 26 Take them away 2 Months jigsaw 27 From time to time 3 Verb mini-crossword 28 Find the families 4 Don't do it ~ it’s unlucky! 29 Which medicine? 5 Calculator 30 Song titles 6 Folding doors 31. Achemical code 7 Longer, shorter 32 Bottom half only 8 Identity parade 33 Crossword in two parts 9 Find the family 34 Road signs 10 Clothes 35 Eye test 11 Elvis’s greatest hits 36 Holiday photos 12 A+B=C 37 Saying the wrong thing 13 Mistakes at the airport 38 Heavy syllables 14 Famous dates 39 What are their jobs? 15 Longer, shorter, longer ... 40 Complete the titles 16 Top half only 41 The United States 17 Well played! 42 Dominoes 18 People and things 43 Crossword in three parts 19 What's on the menu? 44 Missing letters 20 = Strange pictures 45 World quiz 21 Letters into words 46 Painting exhibition 22 Beatles crossword 47 Jukebox 23. Rhyming pairs 48 Asuperlative crossword 24 Words and pictures 49 Missing links 25 Famous names 50 The last word Solutions pages 51-57 Index page 58Introduction There are fifty puzzles in this book. They all help you to practise your English. This Introduction gives you some useful words. You often find these words in the instructions for English puzzles. (If you know Book 1 in this series, you already know most of these words.) This is a grid: This is also a grid: a bcd These are squares: These are boxes: This is a jigsaw: These are also boxes: S [| [| These are pieces: Crossword These are the clues: Across oa 1 a 3 Past Simple of ‘eat’. jown solution \ 5 €& 6 Opposite of ‘young’. Down 1 Opposite of ‘always’. 2 we 3 L arrived two weeks ... 4 Opposite of ‘begin’. — Across means ‘horizontally’ LL Down means ‘vertically’ |This is a line of letters: NRSTUOVAWPLSYE This is a list of names: This is a group of pictures: Angela Smith | This is a pair of symbols: Ex, axle John Wilson ce Susan Bennett oO) Tom Brown X Walt Disney &\ Ann Jones $@ This word is complete: JACKET A This word is not complete. Two letters are missing: > PR UW SIE |S In this word, the letters are in the wrong order: (The missing letters are O and R. The complete word is TROUSERS.) ( The correct order is C-O-A-T.). In this word there is a spelling mistake: GLUVE The word SKATE (The correct spelling is GLOVE.) is an anagram of STEAK.§ (Both words use the same letters.)Add a letter: . oe Soom (B] Ele] R| egpicle[a| > CL Lip elle Assemble the pieces: Complete this film title: 2001: A[_____ ]ODYSSEY' ‘2001 : A SPACE ODYSSEY’ Correct the mistake: : PRivaTe ° PRIVATE ~ Ih KEP OUT | , KEEP OUT Put the words into the grid: Enjoy doing the puzzles - and remember: . When there are letters or numbers in a puzzle, say them to yourself in English. Use a pencil, in case you make a mistake! You can find the solutions at the back of the book.RES AND OPPOSI Each answer in this crossword has five letters. Some clues are pictures. Other clues are words: for these, write the opposite word in the grid. A (D) ea ea } eel aul A] A S eS Se e-) & e ) a LA] LA LA i? J LI tt ede koll ee EL oy J q e od RN Z Z g é te ce ee NGI SY SAR reenseeseroron NN et TFS p LIL “ayers WMUtt hdd ws wr LLL dynuraen CY ay sagpeieeeteerel i, a SONATA ANANY Ss STRATA SSS g LLL ULULLILLILE Wi —— s [__|Opposite clues [2 {eleen —_]6] ; expensive he [fa fig fright English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International Wade 1Look at this piece from the jigsaw: All the letters of the alphabet are on it, except A,G,S,T and U. With those letters you can make a month: AUGUST. Find the other months and write them in the correct places on the assembled jigsaw. PUZZLE English Puzzles 2 Heinemann Internationala ¢.9 Vorb rnini -cnoasunrd. For this crossword, the clues are groups of verbs. In each group of three verbs, find the one which does not rhyme with the other two. Put that verb into the grid. 1. Which clues do these pictures represent ? : [= | 2 Look at the clues for 7 Down and 5 Down. Of those six verbs, which two have the same meaning? English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLEantidote In the crossword there are eight superstitions. They are all things not to do, because they are unlucky. za + [3 [| wa TALK AXE WHEN ON BRIDGE The crossword is complete - but look at the clues below: which clue goes with which answer? Write the correct number and sentence with each picture. Ed STAIRS Do you have any of these superstitions in your country? English Puzzles2 Heinemann InternationalLALLULA TOR Look at this number: | three hundred and thirty-five If you put it on a calculator: and turn the calculator upside down, you find an English verb: Do the same with the other numbers on this page. They make some names, an adjective and some verbs. Use a calculator if you have one. If you don't have a calculator, you can still do the puzzle; fill in the parts of the numbers, like this: Ft 4 A A ! VamaN i M qian = quan seven thousand, I seven hundred and thirty-five three hundred and seventeen three thousand, ive hundred and seven seven hundred and seven je thirty-one thousand, sseven hundred and seventy-three quer a aandalpy SWWEU S,UBWO/)\ BBeeS three hundred and seventeen thousand, five hundred and thirty-seven SWWeU Sue) Pe TRA ate [I l | English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE fy&L_FOUDING Doors ||» Look at this folding door. This is the view This is the view And this is the from the left: from the right: view from the front: Here are views of four more doors, from the left and from the right. Discover what is written on them: Lic me | ITIAIC| PUZZL 6 . English Puzzles 2 | Heinemann International MIn this puzzle, from the first answer to the third answer, the words get longer. Number 1 has two letters; Number 2 has those two letters - and one more; Number 3 has those three letters - and one more. Then, from the third answer to the fifth answer, the words get shorter. Short form of TIMOTHY. *__'s snowing. Opposite p of COLD. &/ Past Simple of SHOOT. Do this puzzle in you want the same way: __ play tennis N on Saturday? English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLE Byi IDENTITY PARADE Assemble a sentence about each person by taking a piece from each of the three groups. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1 821) Wolfgang i Amadeus Victoria Mozart (1819-1991) (1756-1791) Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) Margaret Thatcher (1925-) Picasso (1881-1 973) began composing became the ae became Queen ; a . ss the ar music British Prime Atlantic of Great Britain in 1761, Minister in 1927 and Ireland in 1837, nhe when h a Was five ne when she ; years oj was fifty- was nineteen old. three years eighteen years old. years old. PUZZLE English Puzzles 2 Heinemann internationalFind the Famti This family of words has seven members: 'MY' is the first. What are the six others? Like ‘MY’, each is hidden in a place name. Can you find them? 2 a a English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE &CLOTHES Put the pairs of words on the correct belts. In each pair, the last letter of the first word is the same as the first letter of the second word. etfea oe oT Ee ETT cermin CU SoS are! UT TT ETI Le qq LTP CII im to, LT CETL PETTITT iatva4as 10 English Puzzies 2 Heinemann InternationalIn this puzzle, there are ten Elvis Presley songs. The title of each song is two words. Assemble these seven titles and write them with the correct pictures. Put those seven a titles into this grid, horizontally. s[oalulalwin]= S Find three more titles by taking the correct letters from the grid. 6g [3a [5b [2c JMSh [3b fic 4m] [6g [7e [4e 6g | 3f [5b |3) 4# | 2h] 1k] 5c] 7 | 31 e English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE EhZA | Be Write the words under the pictures ih Groups A and B. (The words are in the boxes, but the letters are in the wrong order.) Then put together a word from Group A and a word from Group B to make each word in Group C. GroupA PUZZLE iy English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalMISTAKES AT THE AIRPORT In each of the signs, there is a spelling mistake (an extra letter). For each one, correct the mistake and put the extra letter in the small square. Arrivalfs ONE MORE PLACE : Put the correct letters in these squares, to spell another place you could find at an airport. _ a tefiata fiz] [uy7 [5 [2 English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE iF}FEF CCFEE Famous bates | Here are six <> dates: (End terch fgren GE July GE 12th Gre) D> 24th La Sis) (Th Deserta) December) Ce Aust) (Th Deserta) Gre) With the help of the pictures, put the dates beside the correct letters. The Wright brothers made the first Concorde made its first Picra flight (Kittyhawk, NCorolina, USA). flight (Toulouse, France). Yuri the Ja in Vostok 1. [ 17th December 1903 | December 1903 a << DB > ae Arron walked He] If your numbers are correct, these calculations are correct: PUZZLE BLY English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalLONGER, SHORE, LONGER... In this puzzle, from the first answer to the third answer, the words get longer. Number 1 has two letters; Number 2 has those two letters - and one more; Number 3 has those three letters - and one more. After Number 4 the words get shorter; after Number 7 they get longer, etc. ! Where's Glasgow? - it's Scotland. g Idon't understand this word. What does it ? On oaup WN = ae wt (rains ce ee vegetarian. I don't eat 6 my your our their] te English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLE ERTOP FAA OMY Complete the other words and pictures by adding the bottom half of each one. Draw a line from each word to 0 the correct picture. 4 i in which room could you find those things? Complete the word: WITCLECNI PUZZLE English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalDo you know the British game called ‘darts'? This board is a bit like the board used for darts, but it has pieces of words on it: @) Assemble the pieces to make six words - they are all words you can use to give your opinion of something, For each word, take a piece from the black circle, a piece from the grey circle and a piece from the white circle. Here is one word - find the other five: MARVELLOUS question: Five of the words mean something is good - but one means something is bad: which one? Q@) Use the pieces of words on these darts to make: - a word meaning ‘very interesting’, Lose - a word meaning ‘not interesting’. English Puzzles 2, Heinemann International PUZZLE BiPeople andl things Read the eleven film titles. (They are the titles of films from the United Kingdom and the United States.) By reading each title, decide if the film could be about ... ..a person Fy ..-people gm .a thing [ms] . things ...a person or a thing (ise! ..people or things oe Write the titles in the correct boxes. (Be careful - you don't ® need ai! the boxes!) ‘ii [ Qvestion: _ | In the first box, which films are about a man? And which films are about a woman? PUZZLE RE English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalWits ap tthe cau? After an accident with some soup, the first menu is difficult to read. Write the words clearly on the second menu. eA if : ] OS OE Res ey | Find all the words from the menu on this corner of the tablecloth 5 like this: English Puzzles2 9 Heinemann International PUZZLE GE)FPA - A giraffe, passing a window. Here's an old joke: What's this? Here are six more pictures and six more descriptions. Put the correct number with each picture. ia A man with no hair, listening to some music. A piece of bread with a lot of butter on it. [3] A policeman, eating spaghetti and drinking jenonade: [4] A cup of tea with a lot of sugar in it. A rabbit, dancing in the snow. [6] A cowboy frying an egg. Look at the eighteen nouns in the descriptions. In their uses here, nine are countable and nine are uncountable. Put them into the correct boxes. AM I [UNCOUNTABLE « English Puzzles 2. Heinemann InternationalLJE [TI TIE [RIs | [N[T [Of{w[o[R|D/> In this game, you have to make words on a board - like a crossword. You can make more than one word at the same time. C] Here's an example: : f these words are already — you can add these on the board: letters: and make two new words at the same time (LEFT and OF): Try the two puzzles below. LN REMEMBER: When you put your letters on the board, you have to put them all in one line of squares. ( It can be a horizontal line or a vertical line.) Can you put these three letters on the And can you put hese five letters on board, to make four new words? the board, to make five new words? English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLE xlBeatles Grossword Between 1962 and 1970, The Beatles wrote and recorded 184 songs. The titles of 26 of those songs are the clues for this crossword. ACROSS (5)! saw her standing enere (10) Good morning good arenes [3 The fool @# the hill Drs) Pea Cau LS) Here, ene [1 [| | | eanep-four and : : everywhere 23 with a little Pes i \ want @8 hold your hand [You never give me your @RPeP (U5) Back in USSR. 27 The ballad @®John and Yoko One more song: Take the letters from the special squares: and put them in the correct order to make the title of another song by The Beatles. It's just one word. OOOO00OO0 PUZZLE hy English Puzzles2 = Heinemann InternationalRhyming Six of the words in the box are incomplete. Complete them with the help of the pictures. Then put the twenty-four words into twelve rhyming pairs. For example: leer) Zi 6 ore cs English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLE PE}Words , PICTURES Put these words into the correct pictures. No, thanks. Here you are. Would you Have you got One coffee and like¥eome’ any lemonade ? JX two lemonades, coffee ? What would you like ? Strontium No, thanks. | | think this door is a metal. never drink is made of beer. metal. A beer, please. Can you see a reason why the pictures are in two groups? PUZZLE Wray English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalLook at the groups of famous names. In each group, three people are of the same nationality and one person is of a different nationality. Write the nationality of the three people in Grid A, and the nationality of the other person in Grid B. 1 Neil a Oe (If you have a problem, you can Walt Disney, film-maker find all the nationalities at the William Shakespeare, writer bottom of the page). Frank Sinatra, singer @) 2 Brigitte Bardot, actress Mahatma Gandhi, political leader Victor Hugo, writer Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher 3 Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composer Valentina Tereshkova, astronaut Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writer Confucius, philosopher 4 Johann Sebastian Bach, composer Mao Tse-Tung, political leader Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer Akira Kurosawa, film-maker Ludwig van Beethoven, composer Lao-Tze, philosopher Vincent van¢ Gogh, painter Federico Fellini, film-maker Sophia Loren, actress Leonardo da Vinci, scientist and artist Melina Mercouri, actress and politician Andrés Segovia, guitarist Fidel Castro, political leader Miguel de Cervantes, writer Pablo Picasso, painter ysiueds - ue|ssny - asaueder - ueie}| - ueIpul - YaatD - UEWAS yauar4 - Yysij6uq - yoyng - UeGND - asaulYD - UeLISNY - UBD English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLE PyZA | aaa aa | Ee Therm cwgnyy Look at these If you take away seven matches, twenty-eight matches: you find this word: —. OEH8 SUFA eb \ Find the words in the boxes below. For each word, write how many matches you take away. (The total number is sixty-eight). Take away seven, L BBBRBB © Take away 2S PUZZLE Wy English Puzzles2 Heinemann International fen=Two pieces of this jigsaw are already in position. Add the N Elmo [Elvie] four others ( just look at the Shapes of the pieces -don't ne wl) le[n] fc] worry about the letters for the moment ). [or You should find five , words. Write j tre geen er the jigsaw like this: , One of those five words is missing from this proverb, song title and film title (the same word in all three places). Which word is it? \\ The postman rings twice. —________ look back. English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE PaySS re a (ca coe) eee a [ FHA Ab -F-Gh MHGo— This family of words has four members: '‘THIS'is the first. What are the three others? Like 'THIS', each is hidden in the name of a writer. Z a ers | CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD ie Can you find them? 4 AGATHA CHRISTIE. |2. KATHERINE MANSFIELD }3 Like 'ME', each is hidden in the name of a United Nations state. ZIMBABWE) a A Z 4 THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND PUZZLE #3 English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalThese six people are not very well - each has a different problem. Decide which medicine is best for each person: the letters on the pills spell the problems. @—4| has got a , 50 Number is the best medicine. @— 8 | has gota 50 Number is the best medicine. ~ @Hc] tas gota J so Number is the best medicine. y @ [5] has got a , so Number [ is the best medicine. @—{E] has gota 80 Number isthe best medicine. Se SY) has got a , 80 Number is the best medicine. English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE fx)At the bottom of the page, there is an alphabetical list of eleven song titles. Complete the titles by using these verbs, in their -ing form: And... Find the correct picture for each song, and put the numbers in the circles. a One of the songs is not about the present: It's about the future. Which one? English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE Ey)A chemical code Here are some chemical elements and their symbols: Fe Oxygen ° Aluminium Al Copper Cu lron Calcium Ca Fluorine F Neon Ne Phosphorus P Carbon c Hydrogen H Nickel Ni Potassium K Chlorine cl lodine | Nitrogen N Sulphur Ss Cobalt Co Use the symbols to do this crossword. (All the answers are in the picture.) Across 1 Calcium + Sulphur + Hydrogen. 3 Cobalt + Neon. 4 Copper + Phosphorus. 1 Calcium + 5 Carbon + Hydrogen + Aluminium + Potassium. Phosphorus. 7 Calcium + Nitrogen +Aluminium. 2 Cobalt + Oxygen + Potassium. 10 Fluorine + lodine + Sulphur + Hydrogen. 11 Calcium + Iron. 4 Chlorine + Oxygen + Carbon + Potassium. 6 Hydrogen + Aluminium + Fluorine. 8 Nickel + Neon. 9 Sulphur + Hydrogen + lodine + Phosphorus. PUZZLE [ERI Heinemann International English Puzzles 2BOTTOM HALF ONLY Complete the words and pictures by adding the top half of each one. Draw a line from each word to the correct picture. IVUIMBNUSON | Lump] nacun| >UAr| IVUUIMPFASI! c| DAINM INANWIFUYVU ie VINKUON . AGA TT In which room could you find those things? Complete the word: DAIMNNUUIVI PUZZLE [Ey English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International lCROSSWORD IN TWO PARTS In each clue, the missing word is the answer. Across A SUPERMARKET IN THIS STREET 2 [_duestion_| The crossword is divided into two parts. Why? (If you read aloud the words in each part, you can hear the reason.) English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE Kx}First, colour the twelve British road signs: A=ted B = black C = blue D = yellow Then read the meanings and put the numbers in the correct places. 1 You've got to stop here. 2 You can’t enter this street. 3 You've got to drive faster than thirty miles per hour here: 30 m.p.h. is the minimum speed. 4 You can't travel by bicycle here. : 5 You can’t turn right here. 6 You can only travel by bicycle here. 7 You can’t turn left here. 8 You've got to go straight on here: you can't turn left or right. 9 You can’t overtake here. 10 You can never park here. 11 You can’t drive faster than thirty miles per hour here: 30 m.p.h. is the maximum speed. PUZZLE egy English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalEye tert On each eye test chart, there are the letters of two words. With the help of the pictures, find the words and write them on the backs of the chairs. C English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE EYUse these words to complete the titles for the photos: THE FRONT Ss [__|tre ol TOWN, WITH [___ NARROW STREETS. [__[acaste Te SITE. SUEANDL____JFRIEND MARIA. |__ |THE BEACH WE WENT SWIMMING. ill TOM AND JILL, WITH TJ FRIEND MANUEL. erence : on THE CECREAMSL____ DELICIOUS! 1S AFLY IN MY SOUP! he correct number beside each title. PUZZLE [eg English lish Puzzles 2. Heinemann InternationalP Ih dap , Throw me the a eT Xe | SEG es oe ( Th 7 nsf el My (= Here are eight more pictures with speakers saying the wrong thing. Move the sentences so that they are all saying the right thing. 7 p 7 y eo Play me a song. i (ent ie “English Puzzles 2. Heinemann international a PUZZLE Keya a: 2 re aa. ! 1 Jeavy syllables SSS Sy Tae ee a Read these words aloud: Both words have two syllables (UN-DER, BE-TWEEN), but the stress is different. InL|UNDER|, the stress is on the first syllable: the first syllable is ‘heavier’. InBETWEEN,, the stress is on the second syllable: N the second syllable is ‘heavier’. Here are twelve more words. Put them onto the correct scales. There are six like this: K{4 and six like this: Ata PUZZLE Egy English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalWhat are their jobs ¢ Each of the names is an anagram of a job. For example: C. TROOD = DOCTOR Find the other jobs, and add the correct numbers from the pictures. ® r BIST El BS fe a Pllallallz g PYETPHEHS ¥ = “115 EL iw} & 8 : ® Cc. HUBERT IAN. T. CIPOLI Harris S. Reed T.D. Stein =a Or Cas CEs @ 6 DOOODOCOCOCE English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE Ex)COMPLETE THE THrkes A lot of English words end with the letters ‘er. Here are twelve. Use them to complete the film titles on the posters. ALEXANDER Liny’ 2D A, Question: Why are the posters in groups of three? PUZZLE By English Puzzles 2 Heinemann Internationa!THE UNITED TATE Here are eighteen North American states and their postal abbreviations: Arizona Connecticut CT | lowa IA | Michigan Arkansas Georgia Kansas KS | Nebraska NE |Wisconsin WI California Idaho Louisiana LA | Oregon OR Colorado Indiana Maine ME | South Dakota SD Take the letters of the abbreviations, and put them in the correct order to make the words for the things in the picture. Kansas + Colorado Nebraska + Wisconsin lowa + Texas Louisiana + Maine Indiana + Colorado Nebraska + Michigan + California 7 Georgia +Nebraska + Oregon South Dakota + Indiana + Louisiana 9 Arkansas + Maine + Californi 40 Nebraska + Arkansas + Connecticut + Nebraska 11 Connecticut + Idaho + California + Nebraska 12 Georgia + Maine + Indiana + Arizon a English Puzztes2 Heinemann International PUZZLE EYFind the hobbies. There are eight (two on each pair of dominoes). PUZZLE Ey English Puzzles 2 Heinemann InternationalCROSSWORD IN THREE PARTS Put the Past Simple forms of the verbs into the grid, and then answer the question at the bottom of the page. Across The crossword is divided into three parts; each part has five verbs in it. Why? (If you read the verbs aloud, you can hear the reason.) English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International PUZZLE EE}Missing Letters In each group of three words, the same letter is missing from all three words. Add the missing letters. (The pictures are there to help you.) GLASLES DRE: CAROT CHERY CHESE WEKEND WINER BANER SCHOL DOR MIDLE WEDING BIL ROLERSKATES BOK FOT BILIARDS PULOVER VILAGE HINER NY FUNY. Finally... put the letters in these squares, to spell the name of a famous city. \ iatreaee 44 English Puzzles 2. Heinemann InternationalCO GLY LOZ #y for each question, choose the correct answer. (If you are in #/ doubt, look at the Clues.) Write the six letters at the bottom ‘of the page, and then answer the Extra Question. 1 Which is the largest ocean in the world? A The Atlantic Ocean. B The Indian Ocean. C The Pacific Ocean. D The Amazon. E The Nile. F The Mississippi. Which is the oldest university in the world? G The University of Bologna, Italy. H_ The University of Oxford, England. | The University of Karueein, Morocco. 4 Which is the highest mountain in the world? J Kanchenjunga. K Everest. L Annapurna. Which is the biggest country in the world? M Canada. N_ The USA. O The USSR. Which is the heaviest animal in the world? P The African elephant. Q The Indian elephant. R_ The blue whale. 1 The answer includes the sixteenth letter of the alphabet. 2 The answer does not include the letter O or the letter P. 3 The answer is not in Europe. 4 The answer does not end with a vowel. 5 There are two words in the answer: the second word is longer than the first word. One of those six letters is the commonest \ 6 The words of the answer have three letter in the English language. Which one? \_ letters, four letters and five letters. English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLE EX_ Put the titles under the paintings. For each title... b ... take a verb from this box, mo” and put it in the -ing form ... and take a noun from this box: ANSWER READ SLEEP BAG POOL DINE ROCK SWIM BAG MACHINE ROD FISH RUN CHAIR PAN ROOM FRY SHOP — WRITE LAMP PAPER SHOES || | (aiyeane 46 English Puzzles 2 Heinemann International1 This jukebox can play thirty songs. Read the titles and decide if each song is about the past, the present or the future. 7 13 19 25 TONY BENNETT 3 When tomorrow comes THE EURYTHMICS 4 Until it's time for you to go ELVIS PRESLEY 5) Something happened to me yesterday THE ROLLING STONES 6 You've got a friend JAMES TAYLOR BUCKS FIZZ Peggy Sue Meet me on the got married corner another day BUDDY HOLLY UNDISFARNE. I meta girl THE SHADOWS The day before She wants to dance] Robert de Niro's_ | When grow up When I'm you came with me waiting to be aman sixty-four ABBA RICK ASTLEY BANANARAMA THE BEACH BOYS THE BEATLES 2 8 14 20 26 I left my heart in When we Tomorrow Are you ready? | You're in my heart San Francisco were young THE 9 15 21 COMMUNARDS BOB DYLAN DAVID ESSEX Tomorrow's just | It doesn't matter MADNESS 27 MANASSAS 10 16 22 28 We are the The day 1 Tell me tomorrow Something's champions met Marie burning QUEEN CLIFF RICHARD SMOKEY ROBINSON KENNY ROGERS. 11 17 | started something I couldn't finish THE SMITHS 18 23 12 24 See you in Last Christmas | can't explain In the year 2525 September THE TEMPOS WHAM 1 THE WHO ZAGER AND EVANS. I don't want to talk] It didn’t matter about it ROD STEWART 29 THE STYLE COUNCIL 30 Write the numbers of the songs here: & English Puzzles 2. Heinemann InternationalA a5 Leer epistay TL IVE —-In each clue, the letters of one word are in the wrong order. Put the letters into the correct order, and then THIS 1S THE “7 put the words into the grid. MOST OXULRUISU HOTEL IN LONDON. ESI a i v || SIDES Se Ct | | en ae 1 THINK THIS 1S THE MOST FLEIBUTUA sa a (| | 7 ee CASTLE IN THE ie " THIS IS THE MOST | | THE TAJ MAHAL IS WHICH IS THE THIS IS THE MOST NUAULUS PAINTING| | ONE OF THE MOST | || MOST NIRISTETGNE SIXVENEPE CAR IN THE EXHIBITION. | |ASOFMU BUILDINGS STAMP IN YOUR WE SELL. IN THE WORLD. J | COLLECTION ? 7 NEPAL 1S ONE OF | | THIS IS THE MOST THE BEATLES HE'S THE MOST THE MOST UDAEGORNS WERE THE MOST SMAGIUN ONOQUAMTINSU CORNER ON THIS RUPLOPA GROUP PERSON | KNOW. COUNTRIES IN THE OF THE 1960 eran PUZZLE Be} English Puzzles 2. Heinemann InternationalMISSING LINKS eye CusuD Each part of a chain to Put these links into ( DY, .. and add the the correct chains... correct numbers. a \ English Puzzles 2. Heinemann International PUZZLE EQEach of these eoeragey aera proverbs has the wrong last word. Move the last words to the correct SSE agg tener ano aS | You can’t make an omelette without breaking bottles. GZ You. can't .make.an omelette without.breaking eggs. .... ‘ . a a You can’t put old wine in new fish | Big fish eat little PUZZLE [FEY English Puzzles 2. Heinemann InternationalSOLUTIONS Ee + BELe en fale! eer = Pictures and opposites (a rs | PF) | lw Te LH Ul cic} ee on sonomn ¢ yp | | Yr { ta] TNE} is ts, Wy ep : Gi ie plo s| {5 S[PIElAlK v t WAT: IT a wlAls TH! RI 2 Of the six verbs (lose, close, choose, put, shut, cut), the two with the same meaning are close and shut, 4 Don't do it - it’s unlucky ! é Nf > eB iS A I= x DONT wniBTCE | Bony pox x 3 Bart Ncpen|amaaen fowanae — |Ovaraal er z =, 3 = =, 2, 2 r 2 a Bevr tates avr oo pase ae SAE eae cee an RU PE Brice, PERM Hivoue giOUte® LN Tne Srams. "| Irae nome 1060 woo ro (*The word ‘indoors’ means ‘inside a building’. The opposite is ‘outdoors’.) Calculator EA 5 ABBA cw (UE) BBE own (ILL) ABAHA cus HABBEA assue) 6 Folding doors EEG 7 Longer, shorter ZZ Identity parade 1 Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) flew across the Atlantic in 1927, when he was twenty-five years old. 2 Queen Victoria (1819-1901) became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, when she was eighteen years old. 3 Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) became Emperor of France in 1804, when he was thirty-five years old. 4 Margaret Thatcher (1925- ) became the British Prime Minister in 1979, when she was fifty-three years old. 5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) began composing music in 1761, when he was five years old. 6 Madonna (1959- ) made her first record in 1982, when she was twenty-three years old. 7 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) had his first exhibition in 1901, when he was nineteen years old. 519 Find the family 12 sabe 1 TOOTH BALL 21 TOOTHBRUSH + WEMMBLEM|STADIUM 2 SYDNEY HARBOURJBRIDGE 9 HAND 12 BOY 22 HANDBAG aBAOAANS|watt 4 1RE|TOWEEJOF LoNDoN SUN 13 BRUSH 23. SUNFLOWER FOOT 44 BELT 24 FOOTBALL 5 vibfflonia FALL = MOUNT EVERIEST BOOK 15 CHAIR 25 BOOKSHOP Seooromawn a Qo xe ° 3 e 16 nee 26 So EOY, ARM 17 Fl 27 oa] Towehl GOLD 18 ROOM 28 GOLDFISH SEAT 19 SHOP 29 SEATBELT Se BED 20 BAG 30 BEDROOM re oes 13 Mistakes at the airport 1 ARRIVALUS i 9 TOILETTS T 2 DEPPARTURES P10 TAXIYS Y 3. TCHECK-IN T 11 BUSSES S 4 POS OT CONTE E 12 NO Seer E Ez7FA 10 Clothes 5 COUSTOMS O 13 MEN N 221 | e INFOROMATION D 14 CARR PARK R H 15 WOMEN H U F 7 BAR OteamEEEED 8 RESTAURAUNT 16 OUT OFF ORDER ETIWS Tea TEEEIEEY ota pe ONE MORE PLACE : OtncRaREEEEED 6|8|9 | 10 ' 16] 14]4 ]12 “Taps a a a —__—_ — Smeg DIU TIYI-IFIRI Ele Bs |H iol Pp Onitieits rac!) Con 14. Famous dates A iH OED 17th December 1903 |<{ A EER ETSEEY WAPVICETOMIED |r, August 1939 «|B > r N ber: The words ‘jeans’, enareharts, ieicealeee s ‘jeans’, ‘trousers’ and ‘shorts’ 12th April 1961 lel c 2nd March 1969 |«| D 11. Elvis's greatest hits 20th July 1969 fe] E Zi st July 1969 F }>127107 Note: The dates in numbers (e.g. 17.12.03) are in the British style: day, month, year. In the United States, a different order is used: month, day, year (e.9. 12.17.03). 15 Longer, shorter, longer... 11 |N ISM ELAIT & 7 2IT LLIN relm[E|T [AC ‘\W 3IT{TINIA 171L JA] TIE 10 a TIRIAL TIN] 18 TlElA 3}L S|RIA|/ IN 19/ AT AUK 6RIA|N 20/ STAT. 36 7A I alstalelr a alMIAIN 2a tfAl iets 3S IMElAIN| 23 [ SIT pa wiNIAIM[ElS] 24S AT alely vis lAlmley 25.115 1215 |A|lM 26H| 1S 13/AM al TAL is (The word ‘blue’ is a colour, but it can also mean ‘sad’,) 14\/A] T 28(S[H{ i TRI 5216 Top half only FRYING - PAN ANSWER TO QUESTION: KITCHEN | 17 Well played ! @[ MARVELLOUS | The word meaning ‘bad’ is WONDERFUL | rhading tari mean ood TERRIBLE EXCELLENT TERRIFIC FANTASTIC The word meaning ‘very interesting’ is FASCINATING . The word meaning ‘not interesting’ is BORING. 18 People and things The eleven titles go into these three boxes (the other boxes are empty): L| SHE KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS | | IT CAME FROM OUTER HE WALKED BY NIGHT SPACE HE RAN ALL THE WAY IT CAME FROM WHO WAS THAT LADY? BENEATH THE SEA WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN? Tw! THEY CAME BY NIGHT THEY CAME TOA CITY THEM f In the first box, these films are about a man: ‘He walked by night, ‘He ran all the way’, ‘Who is Harry Kellerman?’ These films are about a woman: ‘She knew all the answers’, ‘Who was that lady?” 19 What's on the menu? 4) 1 H BlelelAlclr Jalsir A HIE LP TGTRIELE LN) T [WfO) ul The four new words are: HOUR, HE, ON and OR. The five new words are: OTHER, FOR, ATE (the past tense of eat), SHE and TEN. 53[FINA 22 Beatles crossword 25 Famous names 23 Rhyming pairs greot eat ski my oa | street me sky stata her || those || shoes were rose whose. good || food |[ boot || note es | rude |" flute || coot 24 Words and pictures - ae Proverb: The customer is always right. ¥ Song: You always hurt the one you love. Film: The postman always rings twice. f,, Proverb: Better late than never. q Song: | never go out in the rain. Film: Never look back. ALWAYS ] USUALLY } 28 Find the families Family 1 Fre youre One coffee ond tthe some two lemonodes. coffee? ZIpBAD WE] Family 2 2] PIE HORS $14] ie AE uNTeED KiNGDOR] Yoo ee afte] EPUB LIC or IRELAND Remember: A lot of nouns can be countable and s S| paciiiaw Hes uncountable. In the first group of pictures, the nouns a oS ‘beer’, ‘metal’, ‘coffee! and ‘lemonade' are countable; TNIV A Them in the second group of pictures, they are uncountable. PL tre 5 anapis | 5429 Which medicine? A has got a HEADACHE, so Number 4 is the best medicine. B has got a COLD, so Number 6 is the best medicine. C has got a TOOTHACHE, so Number | is the best medicine. D has got a STOMACHACHE , so Number 3 is the best medicine. E has got a COUGH, so Number 5 is the best medicine. F has got a BACKACHE, so Number 2 is the best medicine. Remember: It is also possible to say ‘toothache’, ‘stomachache' and ‘backache* without ‘a’ (‘I've got toothache’, etc.). 32 Bottom half only Remember: the -ing form of ‘dance’ is ‘dancing’ (not ‘danceing’), The song abdut the future is What are you doing Sunday? (You can also say: 'What are you doing on Sunday?') 31 A chemical code Answer to question: BATHROOM] 33 Crossword in two parts [7[H|u) Ris [oll v] 7 eT eh] NlOlR| 7] 1 Mame] |e] HEADS, All the words include the letters TH. In the first part of the crossword, the pronounciation is ‘soft’, /0/; in the second part of the crossword, the pronunciation is ‘hard', /6/. 34 Road signs 35 Eye test ® @ ‘ay & i 5536 Holiday photos TOM AND SUE, GETTING [OFF __] THE PLANE. IT WAS HOTTER [THAN _] LONDON ! THE FRONT OUR ROOM THE OLD TOWN, WiTH[ _1TS ACastLe[ THAT_] WE VISITED, SUE AND [HER ]FRIEND MARIA. THE BEACH [WHERE ] WE WENT SWIMMING. TOM AND JILL, WITH FRIEND MANUEL. Cotos | THIS? [WHOSE ] FEET ARE THESE? THE ICE-CREAMS [ WERE | DELICIOUS! (L1TS _) SIESTA TIME! THERE | ISA FLY IN MY SOUP!* NARROW STREETS. EEE SS RREBEE EY * This is the first line of a lot of jokes. For example: Waiter, there's a fly in my soup! - Don't speak too loud, sir. | haven't got one for everybody. Waiter there's a fly in my soup! - I'm sorry, madam. Are you a vegetarian? 37 Saying the wrong thing OGemmint) © Gimmma) OGamymrrmmn) OC ermene +) © Rairwasers-) © Payrm arg 40 Complete the titles 1 The grass is greener. 2. Bigger than life. 3 Higher and higher. 4 The jazz singer. 5 The swimmer. 6 Taxi driver. 7 Harry and Walter go to New York. 8 Christopher Columbus. 9 Alexander the Great. 10 Dangerous corner. 11 The Pink Panther. 12 Aletter to Brezhnev. ANSWER TO QUESTION: In the first group, greener’, bigger’ and ‘higher’ are all comparatives. In the second group,‘singer', ‘swimmer! and ‘driver’ alt come from verbs (‘sing','swim’,'drive'). In the third group,'Walter’, ‘Christopher! and ‘Alexander’ are al! names. The words in the fourth group (‘corner’,’panther’ and ‘letter’) can't go into the other groups. 41 The United States O(Fasnetiesch) © Grebe) 38 Heavy syllables 39 What are their jobs ? C.TROOD DocToR {4 [Hori S. Reed HaiRDREsseR| GROCER EF) K.BEAR BAKER GR Rog i> [ec (ET) (Ea a aa K[s[cfo] > —[Sfofcjx| WIE s Oo Ane tlalt|x} Oo” ITIAlx|t clale| > elalc| tniclol o> — [efolr fi EMH IClAl > |cli |INiEMA Ielalnlelolr| o> lolrlalnicle sil iniclal -e> [i |siclalvip| IRmelclal o> jclamelrial elalRic|riMel oo leln|r[Rlalnicle t{1|D\clalne|-oIale|e|) fple|wfr| ere alz|-o>talelalz| [nfe 42 Dominoes TIAMTP)- [CIOTETCTEIC TT ING] PatRine PAINTER fu T.D. Stein DENTIST SINGER R.Goal_ ACTOR (2) Le Pirse [e.nupert purcHer | [2 | [Lise 1 Troon JOURNALIST @ F.1, INSECTS SCIENTIST @ Ez GB @ (@ 0 LAN. T. CIPOLI POLITICIAN] eeCWee>w aa) @ BE TINIG| EJ PHO RArPE o EJ REABT WE EJ GsiiRioworry) ear TING EJ GARPERT ONE43 Crossword in three parts The five verbs in the first part have the vowel sound /2/. The five verbs in the second part have the vowel sound /e/ . The five verbs in the third part have the vowel sound /2:/ . 44 Missing letters [iTS] CHESS GLASSES DRESS te PARROT __CARRO. ERRY BEER CHEESE WEEKEND) te RUNNER WINNER NER r5[o] Boor SCHOOL DOOR Pé[D] LADDER MIDDLE WEDDIN' f7 PL] BALLET BILL ROLLERSKATES | fo] WooD__BOOK FOOT [Sf] BILUARDS PULLOVER VILLAGE es ‘The commonest letter in the English language is E. 46 Painting exhibition 1 Washing machine. 7 Running shoes. 2. ‘Frying pan. 8 Fishing rod. 3. Rocking chair. 9 Writing paper. 4 Answering machine. 10 Sleeping bag. 5 Shopping bag. 11 Reading lamp. 6 Swimming pool. 12. Dining room. Remember the double letters in ‘shopping'-and ‘swimming’. Also remember that there is no e in ‘writing’,‘driving’ and ‘dining’. 47 Jukebox EezaTy 48 A superlative crossword 50 The last word You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. The best things in life are free. Something is better than nothing. You can't put old wine in new bottles. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. A hungry man is an angry man. Big fish eat little fish. When one door closes, another door opens. One man's mest is another man's poison. ‘Tomorrow never comes. If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen. Art is long, life is short. 57Index: If you want to do puzzles about particular points, you can find them in this Index. For example, if you want to do a puzzle about comparative adjectives, do Puzzle 40. Adjectives - comparative 40 - for opinions 17 - of nationality 25 - Opposites 1 - possessive 9 ~ superlative 45, 48 Adverbs of frequency 27 Ages 8 Airport signs 13 Bathroom things 32 can/can’t (permission) 34 Chemical elements 31 Clothes 10 Comparative adjectives 40 Compound nouns 12, 46 Connectors (and, but, etc.) 49 Countable nouns 20, 24 Dates 14 Direct and indirect objects 37 Eating utensils 16 -erending 40 -estending 45 Famous people 8, 14, 25 Famous places 9, 45 Films 18 Food and drink 19 Frequency adverbs 27 Future, present, past 47 Geographical features 35 have got to (obligation) 34 Hobbies 42 IIiness 29 Imperatives 4, 37 Indirect and direct objects 37 Infinitive of verbs 3 -ing ending 30, 46 Jobs 39 Menus 19 Months 2 most + adjective 48 58 Nationalities 25 Nouns - compound 12, 46 - countable/uncountable 20, 24 Numbers 5, 26 Objects (direct and indirect) 37 Obligation (have got to) 34 Opinions 17 Opposites 4 Past, present, future 47 Past Simple 8, 14, 43, 47 Permission (can/can’t) 34 Possessive adjectives 9 Prepositions of place 4, 38 Present Continuous 30, 47 Present, past, future 47 Present Simple 47 Pronouns 18, 28 Pronunciation 3, 23, 33, 38, 43 Proverbs 50 Road signs 34 Songs 11, 22, 30, 47 Spelling 13, 36, 44 Stress 38 Superlative adjectives - with -est ending 45 - with the most 48 Superstitions 4 this/that/these/those 28 Uncountable nouns 20, 24 United States 41 Verbs -can, have got to 34 - imperative 4 - infinitive 3 - -ing form (in nouns) 46 - past, present, future 47 st Simple 8, 14, 43, 47 HPresent Continuous 30, 47 ‘Present Simple 47 Wi tning signs 6 fics