Eleven autumn riddles with a ten-second timer – read the clue, make your guess, then the picture gives the answer.
Eleven riddles about autumn, one at a time: a clue appears on the screen, the timer gives ten seconds, and then the answer arrives as a photograph. There is no voice-over – the clues are written, so children read them themselves and the video works with the sound off.
Every riddle is built the same way: present simple with I – I fall from trees, I grow in an orchard, I keep your neck warm – and ends with What am I? After a few rounds learners can write their own riddle on the same pattern, which is where the speaking starts.
The riddles and the answers
- I fall from trees when summer ends. I can be red, yellow, or brown. – a leaf
- I'm orange, round, and people carve funny faces into me. – a pumpkin
- People wear me when the weather is chilly. I keep your neck warm. – a scarf
- I'm small, brown, and squirrels love to collect me. – an acorn
- I grow in the forest. Some people eat me, but some of us are poisonous. – a mushroom
- I come after summer and before winter. – autumn (fall)
- I stand in a field and scare birds away, but I'm not alive. – a scarecrow
- I'm small and fluffy. I collect acorns before winter. – a squirrel
- You can't see me, but I shake the trees and rustle the leaves. – the wind
- I grow in an orchard and keep the doctor away. – an apple
- I glow on Halloween night with a candle inside. – a jack-o'-lantern
Level A1–A2, ages 6–10. Pause on each riddle, let the class read it aloud and answer in a full sentence – I think it's a pumpkin. The ten seconds on the timer are the thinking time; the words worth pre-teaching are chilly, to carve, an orchard, to rustle and poisonous.