Here are some logic activities
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Logic for language learning Many
people enjoy puzzles and solving problems, and the use of logic can be
used to make grammar exercises more interesting. Sentence activities
such as putting words in order and
clozes are a common form of puzzles used in language learning, but
there are many more opportunites to help challenge our more
logically-minded students work on language. Here are some language
puzzles for students (and teachers!)
Arrow sentences Follow the direction of the arrows to find
the next word. For example, when you have found the second word I, which has an
arrow pointing lef
10
Last
day
he’s
played
jogging
near
an
ex
called
fiancee
Next
week
your
made
tnnis
together
a
best
sister’s
Fido
Tom-orrow
hour
I
did
skiing
with
the
elder
Great grand-
daughter’s
cooker
past
morning
who
saw
exercise
by
my
dog
aunts
boyfriend
Solution: There is only one possible answer. Last week is the only collocation for the past time in the first two columns. I is subject pronoun, so is the only possibility for the third position. ...played tennis is the only collocation in the next two columns. ...with my elder sister’s boyfriend completes the sentence. Note that fiancee has a double e and is therefore female, and thus not a possibility, cooker is a machine. ...with my dog called Fido is grammatically correct but logically impossible. Aunts is plural not possessive. If my great granddaughter has a boyfriend, it is extremely unlikely that I would be playing tennis.
Logic puzzle sentence
Fill in the grid with three six word sentences using the following information:
There is one sentence of each tense, past, present and future.
The past tense sentence is about the cinema.
All have the same subject.
One sentence has two words with double (oo) next to each other.
The present tense sentence is about a book.
Two words share the same second word.
The words ‘to’ and ‘am’ both occur twice.
Yesterday and its opposite both appear at the end of different sentences.
The future sentence contains a sport beginning with ‘s’.
‘Reading’ is the third word of one of the sentences.
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2
3
4
5
6
Past
went
the
Future
going
Present
I
a
Solution
Past I went to the cinema yesterday Future I am going to swim tomorrow Present I am reading a good book