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uniT – 2

PRosE

ThE scholaR's MoThER TonguE

Preparatory activity :

1. can you answer the following riddles?

• What is the longest word in the English language?

• What starts with ‘P’, ends with ‘E’ and has millions of
letters?

• What word begins with ‘e’, ends with ‘e’ and has one
letter?

• Which ‘pillar’ keeps crawling all the time?

• What has size and shape but no weight?

• Which son may prove dangerous?

• What cannot move or walk, but can go from place to
place?

• Which letter in the English alphabet always asks a
question?

2. Puzzle

Read and enjoy :

One day Akbar drew a line with his royal hand on the floor
of the open court, and commanded, ‘Make this line shorter
but don’t by any means erase any part of it’.

Everyone was stumped by this puzzle. When it was Birbal’s
turn, he at once…………(what did Birbal do?)……

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