1. Unit 3
Humorous Stories about
Famous People
Extension Activities
Alice Chiu

2. Main Menu
• Activity One: Brain Teasers
• Activity Two: More Riddles and Jokes

3. Brain Teasers

4. Instruction
• To add some fun to the class,
let’s try the following 15
brain teasers. Each puzzle
contains a phrase or an
idiom. Have fun.

5. Brain Teaser 1
hurry up
Y
R
R
U
H

6. Brain Teaser 2
downpour
P
O
U
R

7. Brain Teaser 3
Two thumbs up
B B
MM
U U
H H
T T

8. Brain Teaser 4
She forgets everything.
SHE
GET GET
GET GET
EVERYTHING

9. Brain Teaser 5
to be or not to be
BB
BB

10. Brain Teaser 6
goose bumps
o s e
g o

11. Brain Teaser 7
go for it
GO it it it it

12. Brain Teaser 8
double play
PLAYPLAY

13. Brain Teaser 9
eye contact
EYEEYE

14. Brain Teaser 10
just between you and me
UJUSTME

15. Brain Teaser 11
an afterthought
Thought an

16. Brain Teaser 12
reading between the lines
R/E/A/D/I/N/G

17. Brain Teaser 13
feeling under the weather
WEATHER
FEELING

18. Brain Teaser 14
partly cloudy
CLODY

19. Brain Teaser 15
three blind mice
MCE
MCE
MCE

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21. More Riddles and Jokes

22. Instruction
In this activity, there are two tasks for you.
1. Task One: 7 riddles
Solve the fun riddles together.
2. Task Two: 3 jokes
Help finish the jokes by adding a pun or
a punch line to the story.

23. Riddle 1
• A father and his son were in a car
accident. The father died. The son
was taken to the hospital. The
doctor came in and said: I can't do
surgery on him, because he's my
son. Who was the doctor?
The doctor is the mother.

24. Riddle 2
• What are the two strongest days
of the week?
Saturday and Sunday
because the others are
week(weak) days

25. Riddle 3
• Which is faster, heat or cold?
Why?
Heat is faster because we
can catch the cold.

26. Riddle 4
What do you call a blind deer?
No-eye deer. (No idea.)

27. Riddle 5
• Think of words ending in –GRY.
Angry and hungry are two of them.
There are only three words in the
English language. What is the third
word? The word is something that
everyone uses every day. If you read
carefully, I have already told you
what it is.
language

28. Riddle 6
• There was a green house. Inside the
green house was a white house.
Inside the white house was a red
house. Inside the red house there
were lots of babies. What is it?
watermelon

29. Riddle 7
• The beginning of everything, and
the end of space. What am I?
e

30. Joke 1
• One day, Ms Jones, an English
grammar teacher, was looking ill.
Her student, Tom, asked, “What's the
matter?” “__________," answered
the teacher, describing how she felt.
Tom thought for a while, then
continued, “What was the matter?
What has been the matter? What
might have been the matter... ?”
Tense

31. Joke 2
• Some students bought their teacher a gift
for his birthday. Before opening the gift,
the teacher shook it slightly, and noticed
that it was wet in the corner. Touching his
finger to the wet spot and tasting it, he
asked, “A bottle of wine?” The students
answered, “No.” Again, he touched his
finger to the box and tasted the water. “A
bottle of beer?” His students replied again,
“No.” Finally the teacher asked, “I give
up. What is it?” His students said,
“________”
A puppy.

32. Joke 3
• In heaven, God wants all married men to make two
lines: one is for those who say they are the bosses in
their families, and the other one is for those who
admit that their wives are the bosses. All men stand
in the second line except one guy. God gets angry
with those men who stand in the second line,
“Shame on you! I created you but you were all
controlled by your wives!” He turned to the only one
man in the first line and says, “Tell them, my son.
How did you manage to be the boss in your family?”
Replied the man, “_________”
Well, I don’t know.
My wife told me to stand here.

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