Вайднер Е.И.
учитель английского языка
МОУ СОШ №7 г. Мичуринск Тамбовской области
Friday. Earth Day.
| PEOPLE | ANIMALS | FOOD | LANGUAGE | THE MOST |
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| If a person gave up smoking, does she need more or less time to sleep at night? The average person who stops smoking one hour less sleep a night. | Do you believe, that all polar bears are left handed? Yes. | If you follow the diet, what can help you to lose more weight: to sleep more or less? Dieters who sleep more take off more fat that those who sleep less. | What are the most and the least used letter in the English alphabet? The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Z' is the least used!
| What is the world’s deepest lake? Lake Baikal is 1.7 kilometers deep. It's about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water. |
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| Which colour is the best to help people calm down? The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones. | There is only one animal, that can recognize themselves in a mirror. Who’s that? Chimps are.
| How long can a person live without food or water? A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
| What is special about number “4”? The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value. | Which of the Earth’s oceans is the largest? The Pacific Ocean 165 million square kilometers. It is more than two times the size of the Atlantic. It has an average depth 3.9 kilometers.
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| What is dirtier: an average office desk or a toilet? The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet. | Who can go longer without water: a camel or a rat? A rat.
| What is the highest-calorie fruit?
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit. | What is special about the sentence: WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW..? 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverses, it'll give the same sentence. | What is the longest river? The Nile River in Africa is 6,695 kilometers long.
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| If a man and a woman have absolutely identical clean shirts, which are of the same colour and same size, how can they distinguish them? Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left. |
| How much honey can bees make after visiting 4 million flowers? To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
| Which is the product that never spoils? Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
| Do you know, that the word “News” is an acronym? What are the full words? The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South! | What is the most populated city in the world? Tokyo, with more than 37 million residents. |
| What can be the harmful effect of the headphones on people’s ears, other than impairing hearing? Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times. | What is the most dangerous animal in the world in our everyday life? The common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
| A common animal, which eats everything, but not cucumbers? You can find it sometimes at home. Cockroaches | What means of transport is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese? The word taxi. | What was the lowest temperature ever measured on Earth? The lowest temperature on Earth was -89.6°C at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica July 21, 1983. |
| Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Which one smells it more pleasant? Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. | What are the animals who like to eat the fruits of trees, which are struck by lightning more than any other tree? Pigs eat oak trees’ acorns.
| What is the fruit that is the most efficient at waking you up in the morning? Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. | What is special about the word “Rhythms”? The longest word in the English language with no vowels. | What was the highest temperature on Earth ever?
58°C in Libya in 1922. |
Команда, где больше девочек, выбирает первой тему и количество баллов (уровень сложности). Например “Food - 3”, учитель зачитывает вопрос: “What is the highest-calorie fruit?” Команда отвечает: “It’s avocado!”. Если ответа не последовало или ответ неверный, право ответа переходит второй команде. Исключение составляют вопросы с ответами «да»/«нет», «верю»/«не верю», и любом другом случае, если оставшийся правильный вариант ответа очевиден.
При ответе на вопрос в соответствующую клеточку ставится символ или начальная буква команды, заработавшей этот балл.
Итог игры подводиться по сумме баллов в клеточках, набранных командами. У кого их больше - тот и победил.
