Лингвокультурологические особенности английских загадок

I am not known,

Yet how you miss me

When I have flown. (a time).

29. At the sound of me, men may dream

Or stamp their feet

At the sound of me, women may laugh

Or sometimes weep (music).

30. Say my name and I disappear. What am I? (Silence)
31. Three brothers share a family sport:

A non-stop marathon

The oldest one is fat and short

And trudges slowly on

The middle brother's tall and slim

And keeps a steady pace

The youngest runs just like the wind,

A-speeding through the race

"He's young in years, we let him run,

"The other brothers say

'Cause though he's surely number one,

He's second, in a way." (The hands on a clock (hour, minute, second).)

 

Английские загадки о продуктах

1. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? (an ear of corn / a chicken)
2. What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? (ate and eat)
3. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I? (an onion )
4. What does a skeleton order at a restaurant? (spare ribs)
5. In a marble hall white as milk lined with skin as soft as silk within a fountain crystal-clear a golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, yet thieves break in to steal its gold (an egg).
6. What work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished?(roasting meat on a spit)
7. Which fragment is correct? The yolk of the egg is white or the yolk of the egg are white? (Neither one! The yolk of the egg is yellow)
8. Clean, but not water, 
   White, but not snow, 
   Sweet, but not ice-cream, 
   What is it? (Sugar)
9. What kind of apple isn't an apple? (A pineapple)
10. Why did the bubble gum cross the road? (It was stuck on the bottom of the chicken’s foot).
11. When young, I am sweet in the sun. 
    When middle-aged, I make you gay. 
    When old, I am valued more than ever. (a wine)
12. A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. What is it? (an egg).
13. I go in dry and come out wet, The longer I'm in, the stronger I get. What am I? (A tea bag)

 

Английские загадки о растениях

1. Which room has no doors, no windows? (A mushroom).
2. Why is a cherry like a book?  (because it’s red)
3. What has lots of eyes but never sees? (A potato)
4. Where were lemons first found? (In a tree)
5. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it? A watermelon.
6. Reaching stiffly for the sky,

I bare my fingers when it's cold

         In warmth I wear an emerald glove

         And in between I dress in gold (A deciduous tree)

 

Английские загадки об одежде

1. What kind of tie does a ghost wear to a formal party? (a boo-tie).
2. When I am filled, I can point the way; when I am empty, nothing moves me. I have two skins, One without and one within. What am I? (a glove)
3. Five cupboards, but only one door (a glove).
4. 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 (Shoes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Фамилия И.О.                                                  Петрова А.И.

     

 

 

 

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