A man went on a trip on Friday, stayed for 2 days and returned on Friday. How is that possible?
Answer: ¡ǝsɹoɥ ɐ sı ʎɐpıɹɟ
What has 4 wheels and flies?
Answer: ¡ʞɔnɹʇ ǝƃɐqɹɐƃ ɐ
What did the fish say when he hit the side of his glass bowl at 50 miles per hour?
Answer: “˙uɯɐp”
Think fast: There’s an electric train traveling south. The wind is from the north-west. In which direction would the smoke from the train be blowing?
Answer: ¡ǝʞoɯs ou sɐɥ uıɐɹʇ ɔıɹʇɔǝlǝ uɐ
Well, did you have fun hanging from the ceiling? A nice tool to fool with, that http://www.revfad.com/flip.html, ˙ʇuoɟ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ʞɹoʍ ʇ’usǝop ʇı ɥƃnoɥʇ
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Hi Anne,
The train one’s my favourite.
I got some nice riddles from Colleen in phonetic script – it’s a nice way of covering a few birds with the one shot. I put them on the overhead (without the answer) and they get a kick out of reading them and trying to find the answer – nice opener / closer or pace-breaker.
Eg. What animal can jump higher than a house??
CU tomorrow evening.
Jxx
Jump higher than a house?? You got me.
Great idea – so you put the answer in phonetic script. Motivating. Would be nice to find phonetic script to use on this blog.
PS: On Twitter, I posed this question:
“How do I get the International Phonetic Alphabet on my blog? Free or for a fee? Thanks! #EFL #IPA”
Within minutes (!) I got a response from
Aviano Gearz in India (!) saying “You can try this online keyboard for typing IPA on your blog http://ipa.typeit.org” (http://twitter.com/Aviano_Gearz)
and from
Marisa Constantinides in Greece (!) saying ” I think you can use one of the online IPA typewriters -type-copy-paste to blog http://bit.ly/bqV2tb or http://bit.ly/aMuo4z” (http://twitter.com/Marisa_C, http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/)
Now is that fantastic, or what!? Thank you!!