Загадки на английском

 
Загадки с древних времен являются интересным развлечением для людей любого возраста.

Естественно, загадки можно использовать и при изучении иностранного языка. Например, можно использовать их для повторения материала или в качестве фраз для заучивания.

Приведу несколько загадок на английском, найденных в Интернете:

Two brothers we are,
Greate burdens we bear,
On which we are bitterly pressed;
The truth is to say,
We are full all the day,
And empty when we go to rest.


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Clean, but not water,
White, but not snow,
Sweet, but not ice-cream,
What is it?


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What is white when it is dirty and black when it is clean?


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It happens once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year? What is it?


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Give me food and I will live
Give me water and I will die
What am I?


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How can you say rabbit without the letter R?


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If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you do not have it. What is it?


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What starts with T, ends with T and is full of T?


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What is always coming, but never arrives?


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How many 9's between 1 and 100?


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I am not inside a house. But no house is complete without me. What am I?


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Take off my skin - I will not cry, but you will! What am I?


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Where can you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?