PHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES
7A PAST MODALS
Two fathers and their two
sons went fishing. They each
caught one fish to take home
with them. They did not lose
any fish, but when they arrived
home they only had three fish.
How could that be?
A boy was rushed to the
hospital accident and
emergency department. The
A&E doctor saw the boy and
said, ‘I cannot operate on this
boy. He is my son.’ But the
doctor was not the boy’s father.
How could that be?
A man was going for a walk,
when it started to rain. The
man didn’t have an umbrella
and he wasn’t wearing a hat.
His clothes got soaked, yet not
a single hair on his head got
wet. How could this happen?
2ND EDITION C1
A man fell off a 30 m ladder A girl was sitting in a house at
but he didn’t get hurt. How will night with no lights on reading
he have escaped injury? a book. How could she read?
A lift was on the ground floor.
There were four people in the
lift including me. On the first
A woman was in a cabin and
floor, one got out and three
it was pitch black. She had
got in. On the second floor,
one match. In the cabin were
two got out and six got in. The
a newspaper, a lamp, a candle
lift got stuck before it reached
and a fire. Which will she have
the third floor. Everyone else
lit first?
spent the night in the lift, but
I went home. How must have I
escaped?
A group left their campsite and
hiked south for three miles.
Beth’s mother had four
Then they turned east and
children. She named the first
hiked for three miles. They then
Spring. She named the second
turned north and hiked for
Summer, and she named the
three miles, at which time they
third Autumn. What must have
came across a bear inside their
been the name of the fourth
tent eating their food! What
child?
colour must the bear have
been?
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