Word Combinations

Combine a word from the first column with a word from the second column
arm bag
back brow
ear chair
eye lace
finger line
hair nail
hand ring
head stick
Lip style
neck wards

Combine a word from the first column with a word from the second column. The first part of the
word combination may be in the second column.
back brush
face cap
hand end
head first
knee flash
leg in
spine less
tooth lift
voice some
wrist watch

RIDDLES

1. If you were in a _________ and passed the person in second place, what place would you be in?
Second place!
2. What goes up, but never comes down? Your _________ !
3. What gets bigger and bigger the more you _________ away from it? A hole!
4. How many _________ have 28 days? All of them!
5. Which weighs more, a ton of _________ or a ton of bricks? Neither, they both weigh a ton!
6. What is full of _________ but can still hold water? A sponge!
7. What has two hands, a _________ face, always runs, but stays in place? A clock!
8. Where does _________ come before work? In the dictionary!

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9. If a man is born in Turkey, grows up in Italy, comes to England and dies in Manchester what is
he? _________ .
10. What is it that no one wishes to have, yet no one wishes to _________ ? A bald head.

[age, dead, feathers , holes , lose, months, race, round, success, take]

Tense Challenge

A basketball manager needed 30 million dollars rebuilding/to rebuild his club’s stadium. Hoping
finding/to find the finances he needed, the manager went to a rich business man, Mr Dollar,
whose whole life had been dedicated to making/make money. Mr Dollar, spotting an opportunity
to make a good return on this investment, agreed lending/to lend the manager the money.

It took six months rebuilding/to rebuild the stadium. But on the first day of the new basketball
season, some rival fans burnt down part of the stadium.

Mr Dollar, worrying/to worry about this situation, immediately telephoned the manager
asking/to ask him for the 20 million dollars. But the manager said he didn’t have the money. So
Mr Dollar told the manager meeting/to meet him at his office car park and coming/to come with
his best player, Micky Jordan.

The three men met at the car park and Mr Dollar said to the manager: “If you give me your best
player, I will cancel your debt.”

Looking/To look at Mr Dollar right in the eye, the manager replied. “If I give you Micky Jordan,
no one will come to watch my team play”. “OK” said Mr Dollar. “Look at these stones on the
ground. They are all black and white. I will pick up two stones, a black one and a white one and
put them into this little bag. If Micky picks out a black stone from this bag, then you will have to
give him to me. But if he picks out the white one, then he will be free and I will cancel your
debt.” Not being/to be in a position to argue, the manager reluctantly agreed.

Mr Dollar picked up two stones and put them in his bag, but Micky noticed that Mr Dollar had
put two black stones in his bag. How did Micky find a way resolving/to resolve the situation?

Grammar Challenge 1

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A man who was the owner of a winery died. In his will, he choose/chose to leave 21 barrels
(showed/shown in the figure below) between his three sons. Seven of the barrels are filled with
wine, seven are half full, and seven are empty. However he set/ setted a series of rules: the wine
and barrels must be split/splitted so that each son has the same number of full barrels, the same
number of half-full barrels, and the same number of empty barrels. Note that there are no
measuring devices. How can the barrels and wine be evenly divided?

Grammar challenge 2

You have three boxes of fruit. One contains/is contained just apples, another just oranges, and
the other both oranges and apples. Each box labels/is labeled. One says "apples," one says
"oranges," and one says "apples and oranges." However, it knows/is known that none of the
boxes label/are labeled correctly. How can you label the boxes/can the boxes be labeled
correctly if you only allow/are only allowed to take and look at just one piece of fruit from just
one of the boxes?