Live and Learn English with Jean Lee

Here are some fun brain-teaser riddles. Let us give them a try! (*Source: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/riddles-for-esl-students/ & picture source from https://englishteaching101.com/funny-brain-teasers-for-kids/ )   Riddles for Beginners        1.    How many letters are in the alphabet?    2.    What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?        3.    There’s a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?        4.    As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives? <Answer Keys for Beginner Riddles>    1.   11   (t-h-e-a-l-p-h-a-b-e-t)    2. ...

Let’s have fun with last weekend ‘s on-air challenge for the NPR Word Puzzle. Every answer is a word, name, or phrase in which the only consonants are L and T — repeated as often as necessary . All the other letters are vowels.  (You can listen to this Word Puzzle on https://www.npr.org/2020/05/17/857554125/sunday-puzzle-a-game-of-consonants ) Example: add up --> TOTAL      1.    Opposite of big      2.    Coffee made with hot steamed milk      3.    Name, as of a book or movie      4.    Dole out      5.    Sweepstakes game      6.    "For rent" sign (2 wds.)      7.    Lavatory      8.    Place to insert an electric plug      9.    No-holds-barred (two words hyphenated) ...

Can you guess the nicknames for the 50 US States? Why don’t we give it a try?  FYI, I have lived in the Golden State, the Prairie State, and am currently living in the Lone Star State. :)     1.      The Prairie State : 1. Kansas    2. Indiana    3. Illinois    2.      The Aloha State :   1.   Hawaii    2. Louisianna     3. New Mexico    3.      The Peach State : 1. Connecticut    2. Georgia    3. New York    4.    The Lone Star State :   1. Texas    2. Indiana    3. Colorado    5.    The Golden State : 1. California     2. Florida     3. New York    6.    The Beehive State : 1. Oregon    2. Wisconsin    3. Utah    7.    The...