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Practice 5 What If…? Ludic and literary environment

Social language practice: Guess and formulate hypotheses about past events.

In this practice you will solve and propose different
riddles to create your own anthology .

Warm-up stage riddle (n.): acertijo depth
fence (n.): cerca, valla ripe
dig (n.): excavar Glossary on
1. Read along while you listen to the following logic riddle. TRACK 33 page 182

Things I know The Mystery of the Bitten Carrots

Please tell me something
some very strange things happened to my
interesting, a story that OK, if that’s what you want. A few years ago,
makes me think. uncle that we cannot yet explain.
Well, my uncle is a farmer and one day he
What happened decided to plant vegetables on fifteen square
session 1 he knew that there were rabbits around that
to your uncle?
meters of his land. He cleaned almost all the
soil of weeds and planted carrots. However,

could come and eat the carrots.
He installed a wire fence around the garden.
What did your uncle do to
prevent the rabbits from The fence was two meters high and reached
two meters below the ground.
eating the carrots?
So, the rabbits could not jump the fence nor
Why did he put the fence at dig under it. Rabbits never, never dig more
that height and at that depth? than a meter and a half underground.

Well, some time passed, and the carrots
And what were growing very well, they were almost
happened next? ripe. But one day, he began to find bitten
carrots on the ground. My uncle could never
Rabbits don’t fly, they don’t explain how the rabbit had gotten in and out.
do magic and they never dig
more than a meter and a half
under the ground ... There has What do you
to be a logical explanation. think happened?

Mmm... Let me think...

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