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Chapter 6: Dealing with DiversityActivity 83Lateral ThinkingLevelAimsDurationMaterialsPreparationIntermediate onwardsPractising Yes/No questions5 minutes per puzzleA copy of the Lateral Thinking Puzzles(see page 92) cut up into individualpuzzles1 minute (to copy the puzzles)Procedure1234Give a demonstration of the activity. Tell the class apuzzle and invite the students to ask you the reasonsbehind it by means of Yes/No questions. You canonly say Yes or No in response to their questions.Keep going until they find the solution.Give out the other puzzles to some students. Itdoesn’t matter if the majority don’t get one, as theywill be the ones working on the solution.Ask each student to come out and read the puzzle tothe class, who ask questions until they solve it.Time the activity. The student with the puzzle thatlasts longest is the winner.VariationYou don’t have to do all the puzzles in the same lesson.You can have one every day.NotesThese puzzles are not new, but often it is the teacherwho sets a problem and answers the questions. This istiring and demands your full attention. If the studentsassume that role, they practise more language, freeingyou to monitor the language and the class dynamics.91
Chapter 6: Dealing with DiversityDESIGNED TO PHOTOCOPYLateral Thinking Puzzles1 There’s a dead man lying in a field. What happened?Answer: He was wearing a parachute which didn’t open. He fell into the field.2 Anthony and Cleopatra lie dead on the living room floor. There’s water and brokenglass on the floor. How did they die?Answer: They were goldfish in a tank, knocked over by a dog.3 A man walked into a bar and ordered a glass of water. Instead, the barman pulled agun on him, but the man said ‘Thanks’ and left the bar satisfied. Why?Answer: He’d had hiccoughs, which are curable by drinking water or by a sudden shock.4 Two pieces of coal and a carrot are lying together in a field. Why?Answer: They were on a snowman’s face. The snowman melted.5 A man is found dead, hanging by the neck from the ceiling of an empty factorywarehouse. There is no chair he could have jumped off. There’s water on the floor.How did he manage to hang himself?Answer: It is a hot climate and the factory produces ice. He stood on a block of iceuntil it melted.6 A woman is woken up by the phone, but the caller hangs up, satisfied. Why?Answer: The caller is next door and couldn’t sleep because of the woman’s snoring.The phone call interrupted the snoring.7 A man passes a window, hears the phone ringing and screams. Why?Answer: He’d decided to commit suicide by jumping out of a skyscraper window,because after a nuclear war he thought he was the last person left alive. The phoneringing disproves that, but it’s too late, as he’s already falling through the air.8 A man makes a return journey by train to see his doctor, but on the way backcommits suicide. Why?Answer: He’d gone for an operation to cure his blindness. On the way home the trainwent through a tunnel, and the man thought his blindness had returned.The MINIMAX Teacher © Jon Taylor published by DELTA PUBLISHING92
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