We all know the benefits of solving riddles for children and adults. These entertaining puzzles are an excellent trainer for developing intelligence, expanding vocabulary and improving a huge number of useful skills. In addition, solving riddles is an extremely exciting activity that can captivate boys and girls of different ages for a long time and make them compete with each other.
A special place among riddles for children and adults is occupied by charades - unique puzzles composed in poetic form. Although charades can be simple, in the vast majority of cases they are incredibly difficult to solve, which is very popular with those who like to train their intelligence.
What is a charade?Charade is a verbal entertainment that presents a short riddle in the form of poetry or prose. Moreover, the answer to such a riddle may consist of one or several words, depending on the complexity of the charade and the nature of its composition.
In most cases, the charade involves one rather long word that can be divided into several parts. Each of these parts represents another word, mostly monosyllabic. To solve the charade, you need to break it down into several riddles, determine the answer to each of them, and then put these parts together.
Meanwhile, charades can be somewhat different. In particular, in such a riddle a pair of words can be guessed that differ in one letter or in any other way. In this case, the text of the charade will contain explanations of each of these words, as well as an indication of one or more differences between them.
Charades are an extremely exciting and useful entertainment that helps expand vocabulary, develop ingenuity, and with the help of these interesting puzzles you can arrange a fun competition between children of the same age or family members. In this case, charades will additionally contribute to the development and improvement of socialization skills, as well as the unity of the children's team.
Children's charades with answers
For children who are just getting acquainted with these unique riddles, even the simplest charades may seem too complicated. That is why, before playing this game with a child, it is necessary to clearly explain to him what exactly it is.
For better understanding, the text of the first charades should be written in large block letters and accompanied by simple drawings illustrating the hidden words. As a first experiment, charades in which not one, but 2 words are guessed, are best suited, for example:
There is a little word
From just one syllable.
And in that word, inside,
Replace "U" with "I"
And instantly the bird
It will turn into a fish. (Lun - Lin)
This word
Here's what it means:
With the letter "I" -
Health is depressing.
And will you change “I”
Starting with the letter "O" -
He gives health
One hundred percent. (Alcohol – Sports)
Classic charades, in which only one word is asked, for beginners should not include more than two parts. In most cases, the length of the searched word in such riddles is from 6 to 8 letters. In particular, the following word problems are suitable for younger schoolchildren:
You will find my first syllable then,
When water drips into the drops.
Pronoun - second syllable,
But in general, the school table is yours. (Steam + Ta = Desk)
There is a sentry on the first one,
The second one turns green in the forest,
And in general - it just gets dark,
You go to bed, and your working day is over. (Post + Spruce = Bed)
My first syllable is a preposition,
The second is a summer house,
But the whole thing is sometimes difficult to solve. (For + Dacha = Task)
The beginning of the word is forest,
The end is a poem
And the whole grows
Although not a plant. (Boron + Oda = Beard)
The end is at the bottom of the pond.
And the whole thing is in the museum
You will find it without difficulty. (Kar + Tina = Painting)
Complex charades with answers
In more complex charades, 3 or more parts are already connected. Here, prepositions, pronouns and musical notations are much more common, which are quite difficult to explain in the text of the riddle. Such charades are perfect for organizing a small competition between bored children or in the company of adults.
In addition, to solve such riddles, children often have to be grouped into groups of several people, since one student cannot cope with them. Try offering your child the following charades with answers, which are also suitable for a fun company:
Chalk at Grandfather's Seryozha the Loafer
I painted the entire fence on Monday.
Afterwards, I stood there thinking for a while,
He painted the upper part of the face.
And after this Seryozha added
A letter that looks a lot like a hoop.
Swamp swamp, without any rules there,
In essence, who is he, Seryozha? (Forehead + O + Shaking = Shaking)
You will find me at the bottom of the blue sea.
And in me from beginning to end
Two prepositions and three “tsa”. (U + C + Three + Tsa = Oyster)
First, dancing until you drop in the palace
And the first letter follows this, and at the end
The dog was the first one in space.
These are some very nice things!
The charade is written out exactly. Here's the result:
I was able to hide a musical instrument in it. (Bal + A + Laika = Balalaika)
I thought about it and wrote down in a charade:
First, a large and friendly team,
Who can sing any tune.
He is something like a jackdaw, a nightingale,
But only without the letter at the beginning,
So that you all know the island on the Dnieper. (Choir + (P)Titsa = Khortitsa)
Questions for New Year's competitions, games, quizzes
1. What is the name of Santa Claus's brother? (Santa Claus)
2. Where does the Russian Father Frost live? (In Verkhny Ustyug)
3. Where do his relatives live? (In the North, in Lapland)
4. Each new year has its own name. Name it! (Year of the Rat, Year of the Ox, Year of the Tiger, Year of the Rabbit (Cat), Year of the Dragon, Year of the Snake, Year of the Horse, Year of the Sheep (Goat), Year of the Monkey, Year of the Rooster, Year of the Dog, Year of the Pig)
5. What fairy-tale snow heroes do you know? (Frost - Blue Nose, Frost - Red Nose, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Grandmother Snowstorm, Snow Queen, Snowman, December, January, February: brothers-months, Old Woman Blizzard, Uncle Snowstorm, Mister North Wind, etc.)
6. Name words associated with winter. (Winter, north, Arctic Ocean, polar explorer, penguin, polar bear, walrus, blizzard, snow, snowflake, icicles, drifts, frost, ice, sleigh, Christmas tree, skates, skis, ice slides, frost, blizzard, blizzard and etc.)
7. Remember poems by phrases -.
a) Wavy fogs, sad meadows, bellsmonotonous.
"Through the wavy mists
The moon is breaking through.
To the sad meadows
She sheds a sad light.
On the winter, boring road
Three greyhounds are running.
Single bell
It rings tiresomely..."
A.S. Pushkin. "Winter road"
b) The horse smells the snow, the carriage is flying, the yard boy is running.
Winter! Peasant triumphant
On the firewood it renews the path.
His horse smells the snow,
Trotting along somehow...
A.S. Pushkin, novel “Eugene Onegin”
c) The sorceress winter lay down in wavy carpets, the frost flashed. And we are glad.
Here is the north, the clouds are catching up,
He breathed, howled,
And here I am
The sorceress winter is coming.
She came and fell apart; shreds
Hanged on the branches of oak trees.
Lay down in wavy carpets,
Among the fields, around the hills...
A.S. Pushkin, “Eugene Onegin”
d) The sky is covered with darkness, like an animal it will howl, what are you doing, my old lady.
The storm covers the sky with darkness,
Whirling snow whirlwinds;
Then, like a beast, she will howl,
Then he will cry like a child,
Then on the dilapidated roof
Suddenly the straw will rustle,
The way a belated traveler
There will be a knock on our window.
Our dilapidated shack
Both sad and dark.
What are you doing, my old lady?
Silent at the window?
Or howling storms
You, my friend, are tired,
Or doze off to the buzzing sound
Your spindle?
A.S. Pushkin "Winter Evening"
d) A wonderful day, lovely friend, of northern Aurora.
Frost and sun; wonderful day!
You are still dozing, dear friend.
It's time, beauty, wake up:
Open, closed eyes
Towards northern Aurora,
Be the star of the north!
Under blue skies
Magnificent carpets,
Glistening in the sun, the snow lies,
The transparent forest alone turns black,
And the spruce turns green through the frost,
And the river glitters under the ice
A.S. Pushkin “Winter Morning”
8. Name fairy tales associated with the winter period of the year, with snow, etc. (“Snow Maiden”, “Snow Queen”, “Moroz Ivanovich”, “Morozko”, “Grandmother Snowstorm”, “Umka”, “12 months”, “ Silver Hoof”, “About Emelya the Fool”, “Winter Hut of Animals”, etc.)
9. Winter Games. Name them. (Hockey, snowballs, building fortresses and snowmen, sledding down the mountains, winter football, walruses, etc.)
10. Winter sports as you know them. (Hockey, speed skating, skiing, bobsleigh, luge, biathlon, figure skating, ski jumping, figure skiing, fishing (ice fishing), etc.)
11. Name winter-themed riddles.
White as chalk, it flew from the sky. He spent the winter and ran into the ground. (Snow)
The tablecloth was white and covered the whole world. (Snow)
In summer - gray, in winter - white. (Hare)
It grows upside down.
It grows not in summer, but in winter.
But the sun will bake her -
She will cry and die. (Icicle)
What kind of stars are through?
On a coat and on a scarf?
All through, cut-out,
And if you take it, there is water in your hand. (Snowflakes)
It does not burn in fire and does not sink in water. (Ice)
Who walks around angry and hungry in the cold winter? (Wolf)
One color in winter and summer. (Christmas tree)
He doesn’t run, he doesn’t tell him to stand. (Freezing)
No arms, no legs, but he can draw. (Freezing)
There is snow on the fields, ice on the rivers, a blizzard is blowing. When does this happen? (Winter)
Light, white fluffs fall from the sky in winter and circle above the ground... (snowflakes).
You will always find her in the forest -
Let's go for a walk and meet:
Stands prickly like a hedgehog
In winter - in a summer dress.
And he will come to us on New Year's Eve.
The guys will be happy.
The troubles of the merry ones are full:
We are preparing her outfits. (Christmas tree)
12. What proverbs, sayings, signs do you know about winter?
A lot of snow means a lot of bread.
January is the beginning of the year, winter is the middle.
How you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it.
No water in March - no grass in April.
Prepare the sleigh in the summer and the cart in the winter.
Frost on the trees means frost, fog means thaw.
December ends the year, winter begins.
Summer day - for a winter week.
Summer is a supply, winter is a pick-me-up. (Summer collects, winter eats)
You'll spend the summer, but in the winter you'll run away with your bag.
It's not winter, but summer in a winter dress.
The grain is harvested, so the winter is cold.
It’s not the snow that’s blowing, but the snow that’s coming from above.
Take care of your nose in the extreme cold.
The frost is not great, but it does not require you to stand.
In the winter cold everyone is young.
The tooth does not touch the tooth. (By cold)
A good owner will not throw his dog out into the street.
Smoke in a column means frost.
The cat hides its nose - to the cold weather.
13. Name female names associated with snow. (Snezhana, Snow White)
14. Name the fabulous snow berry. (Snowman)
15. Charades.
The cuckoo will tell you the first syllable in the forest,
The second syllable - it will lie like a wedge in the sea,
The word in general is milk, but not cow's milk,
They say it is good for health. (Ku-mys. Kumys)
You will see the first syllable in the score,
The other two are on elk or aurochs,
The whole thing - when you go on a hike,
You will find it under your feet. (Road. Road)
The first syllable is a large, heavy instrument,
Layer two - some poets are called that,
In general - at a difficult moment in life
They will give us a cash loan. (Pawn bard. Pawn shop)
The initial syllable is a dance movement,
The second syllable - it is in the theater and cinema,
In general it is a word or a sentence,
It serves as a pass for the military. (Password. Password)
The first syllable is the former measure of weight,
We bring the second syllable from the forest
On a winter day on a snowy road,
The whole thing is a four-legged friend. (Poodle-el. Poodle)
The first two syllables are a bird,
Nests far from noisy places,
The third syllable is a small animal,
He could have met you in the forest.
Connect the animal and the bird,
And the city should work out. (Raven-hedgehog. Voronezh)
On the first syllable we go for mushrooms,
The other two are the creation of poets,
The word in general has become fashionable these days
This is men's jewelry. (Bor-oda. Beard)
The first syllable - it comes from snow,
The second syllable appears on the body,
The whole - completes dinners,
Children love this dish. (Compote. Compote)
The initial syllable - do not be remembered by night,
The other two syllables give life to all of us,
And by the way, in general, people are all eager to:
They communicate and get to know each other. (Bes-food. Conversation)
The first syllable in the spring will be filled with birdsong,
Connect a two-syllable pronoun with it,
The whole word, when the time comes,
The tractor will pull you into the field. (Bor-ona. Harrow)
The first syllable in a thunderstorm makes noise and sways
(but one letter in it is excluded),
The second syllable is a story about what happened,
What actually happened.
In general, there is a reason for sadness:
A man lives alone. (Bo(r)-byl. Bobyl)
The first syllable is what is convenient for us on the way,
The other two are leading soldiers into battle,
And the whole is beautiful and incomparable,
When gardens in Japan bloom. (Sak-hurray. Sakura)
The initial syllable hovers over the water,
The second syllable adorns a man,
The word as a whole is friendly with the free wind,
At sea it serves as a motor for yachts. (Parus. Sail)
The first syllable is a big shock,
The next one is a cry of admiration,
The third syllable is agreement, unity,
Overall, a tasty treat. (Choco-o-lad. Chocolate)
The first syllable - it is in any ballet,
The other two carry trouble within themselves,
The word in general is pronounced by children,
That's what they lovingly call their father. (Dad-bullet. Daddy)
Dancers adore the first syllable,
The second syllable is swimmers’ equipment,
The whole thing is loaded into the ship,
To be stable in movement. (Ballast. Ballast)
The first syllable is made of seven notes,
The other two are a board game,
The whole thing will punch a hole in the board,
What is it - ask the carpenter. (Do-lotto. Chisel)
Everyone wants to look at the first two syllables,
Add to them the syllable - a ravine of great length,
And the word as a whole is before others
Dog lovers should find out. (Kinolog. Kinolog)
The initial syllable will turn green in the spring,
You take it without a letter, without one,
And add to it a word of two syllables,
It contains the result and meaning of the auction for the seller.
Whole, when you add up all the syllables,
You can see it on the river in the spring. (Le(s)-income. Ice drift)
The first syllable of the word connects,
The other two flow in Russia,
You fold them, and the songbird
Will fly in the spring to nest in the forest. (I-Volga. Oriole)
The initial syllable is pulled by a horse or a bull,
The second syllable is good when the gardens are in bloom,
We don’t notice the whole, everyone is used to it,
But if it weren’t for him, there would be no life on the planet. (Air spirit. Air)
16. Proverbs and sayings with the number “7”
Measure seven times, cut once.
Seven do not wait for one.
Seven nannies have a child without an eye.
Seven Fridays a week.
Seven with a spoon, one with a bipod.
Seven feet under the keel!
Seven kids are better than three pigs.
17. Tongue twisters.
Whey from yogurt.
Greek rode across the river,
He sees a Greek: there is a cancer in the river.
The Greek put his hand in the river -
Cancer by the hand of the Greek DAC!
Put the coal in the corner.
There is grass in the yard, and firewood on the grass.
Mom washed Mila with soap, Mila swallowed the soap.
Karl stole corals from Clara, Clara stole a clarinet from Karl.
Varya’s mittens disappeared on the boulevard.
A goat walked with a sideways goat,
A goat walked with a barefoot goat.
A goat walked with a sideways goat,
A goat walked with a barefoot goat.
Another type of word game is called charade. The components of a charade are individual small words that add up to a larger word. For a charade riddle, a description of each part is given, and then the meaning of the whole word. And the word is not always broken down into syllables.
The word "charade" comes from the French "charade" - a word that needs to be found. This last word-guess is divided into parts that have independent meaning. Each part of the main word is usually encrypted with poetic lines.
Charades were described in ancient literature, and they reached their peak in the salon culture of the 17th-18th centuries, and then disappeared from literature, surviving only as a game.
Here, for example, is how you can encrypt the word “sail” in poetry:
Three letters float like clouds,
Two are visible on a man's face,
And the whole sometimes turns white “In the blue sea fog.”
Here are more examples of riddle words for charades:
fa-sol, task, top-ears, pile-rice, Chalk-and-poplar, ball-a-laika, half-wasp, bar-suk, ox-window, caramel, par-us, wine- hail,boycott.
Perhaps you can try to come up with tasks for them yourself? Just keep in mind that charades do not use any words, but nouns in the nominative case.
The beginning is called a tree,
The end - my readers,
Here in the book the whole thing will be found,
And they are in every line.
(Answer: "Letters".)
The first syllable in surprise I exclaim,
I take the second syllable off the bookshelf,
When the first and second unite,
It will turn out to be the smallest particle.
(Answer: "A-tom.")
Part of the dance is my first syllable,
Wine is my second syllable,
Generally transported
Across the river with a tow rope.
(Answer: “Par-rum.”)
My first syllable is a preposition,
In the second we will live all summer,
And the whole is from us and you
He's been waiting for an answer for a long time.
(Answer: "Task".)
The end is at the bottom of the pond,
And the whole thing is in the museum
You will find it easily.
(Answer: "Painting".)
You will find the first syllable among the notes,
And the second thing is that the bull carries it.
Do you want to find the whole thing?
So look for him along the way.
(Answer: "Road".)
My beginning is in lead,
And in silver and steel,
And the ships are at my end
Yesterday we arrived at the pier.
And if you are friendly with me,
Persistent in training
You will be in the cold, in the rain and heat
Hardy and dexterous.
(Answer: "S-port.")
You will find my first syllable then,
When the water boils in the cauldron,
Pronoun - second syllable,
But in general, the school table is yours.
(Answer: “Par-ta.”)
From the squeak of birds - take my first syllable,
The second is from a ram's head.
Open the oven and find there
What you have eaten more than once.
(Answer: "Pie".)
The note is my first syllable,
Place an excuse next to it
And having solved the riddle to the end,
You'll get a facial expression.
(Answer: "Mi-na.")
First remember the measure of area -
You undoubtedly studied it at school.
The five letters following are inspired,
They cannot live without dance, music and stage.
Gawking at the weapons exhibits,
You will find the answer in the historical museum.
(Answer: “Ar-ballet.”)
Here it is - the first syllable.
The letter at the end opens the alphabet.
It’s a pity there is no answer: there was, but the answer floated out.
(Answer: "The missing".)
From paper - the very first syllable.
You could put sugar in it.
The second - he measures the information or
The musical style reveals to us...
The whole word is like a somersault,
You could see him at the circus.
(Answer: “Kul-bit.”)
At the beginning - a series of actions,
But - not walking or riding.
Then here the vowel comes,
And then it’s the other way around.
The answer is the beast hippopotamus.
You need to say otherwise.
(Answer: "Hippopotamus".)
Find the disease-infection,
And if you add a letter, right away
The new word is ready.
Ships have this word.
(Answer: "Anchor".)
Take the name of fish soup,
Attach the letter "M" to the beginning,
Right there familiar to everyone
The answer will be an insect.
(Answer: "Fly".)
The first is a note, the second is a game,
The whole will be met at the carpenter.
(Answer: "Do-lotto.")
The first syllable is called a river,
There is a second one on the ship,
Well, the whole is given
In honor of the military victory.
(Answer: "Firework".)
Pronoun, preposition,
Between them is the poet's surname,
And the whole is a famous fruit,
What is ripening at the end of summer.
(Answer: "Apple".)
Everyone knows my first syllable -
He is always in class.
We will add a union to it,
We'll put a tree behind it.
To find out the whole
The city should be named.
(Answer: “Chalk-and-poplar.”)
You will find my beginning in the field,
You learned the second and third at school,
When there was a grammar lesson,
One of them is union,
The other thing is a pretext.
Then, after making an effort,
Find the name of the tree.
But in general - the name of the hero city,
Whose military glory we are proud of.
(Answer: “Sev-a-s-poplar.”)
The first is a note, the second is the same,
But overall, it looks like peas.
(Answer: "Beans".)
Look for the first syllable in the dance,
The second two are a number and a preposition,
And we call people whole,
Ready to give their lives in battle
For the good of your homeland.
(Answer:"Patriot".)
My first syllable is a large stack of papers.
The Japanese are selling vodka from the second one.
But in general - trees are slimmer
Not a single alley knows.
(Answer: “A pile of rice.”)
The first syllable shines from the wall,
The rider races on the second,
And the third (who would have thought?)
We will find it in the Slavic alphabet.
But in general he is unpleasant,
The law is pursuing him.
(Answer:"Bra - horse - er.")
My first syllable is a preposition
The sign of agreement is my second syllable,
My third syllable is evil fate,
All together - we get it on holiday.
(Answer: "Present".)
The first syllable is needed to measure a circle,
The second two together mean “century”.
In general - firearms,
It would be better if no person owned it.
(Answer: "Gun".)
Geographical charades
1. In letters and notes you will find the capital of one of the Russian republics.
2. My first syllable is a sea animal. Sometimes they hunt him. And the interjection is the second Everything is a state, but which one?
3. Interjection - first syllable. Among the birds, look for the second. The third is the letter. I flow through the Urals like a river.
4. To show your skill,
Let's think with you
My first syllable is a pronoun,
The name of the forest is the second syllable
And at the end (go ahead!)
Let's take one consonant sound.
End of the charade! In one word
Let's name a famous city.
5. Everyone knows the first syllable -
He's always in class
We will add a union to it,
We'll put a tree behind it.
To find out the whole
We need to name the city.
6. The first is a consonant, the second is a preposition, the third is a country in Africa, the whole republic in South America.
Answers:
1. U-fa. 2 Kit-ai 3 Chu-owl-ya 4. You-bor-g. 5 Chalk-and-poplar. 6. B-o-livia.
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PO - TRI - Withe - nAnd - e This script allows you to divide words into syllables. Remember that the rules for dividing words into syllables and the rules for hyphenation are different rules.
How to break a word into syllables
1. In the Russian language there are sounds of different audibility: vowel sounds are more sonorous compared to consonant sounds. It is vowel sounds that form syllables and are syllabic. A syllable is one sound or several sounds pronounced with one exhalation push of air: vo-da, na-u-ka.
There are as many syllables in a word as there are vowel sounds.
Consonant sounds are non-syllabic. When pronouncing a word, the consonant sounds “stretch” towards the vowels, forming a syllable together with the vowels.
2. A syllable can consist of one sound (and then it must be a vowel) or several sounds (in this case, in addition to the vowel, the syllable contains a consonant or a group of consonants): rim - o-bo-dok; country - country; night light - night light; miniature - mi-ni-a-tyu-ra. If a syllable consists of two or more sounds, then it must begin with a consonant.
3. Syllables can be open or closed.
An open syllable ends with a vowel sound: vo-da, country.
A closed syllable ends with a consonant sound: sleep, lay-ner.
There are more open syllables in Russian. Closed syllables are usually observed at the end of a word: no-chnik (the first syllable is open, the second is closed), o-bo-dok (the first two syllables are open, the third is closed).
In the middle of a word, a syllable, as a rule, ends with a vowel sound, and a consonant or group of consonants coming after a vowel usually goes to the subsequent syllable: no-chnik, di-ktor.
In the middle of a word, closed syllables can only form unpaired voiced consonants [th], [r], [r'], [l], [l'], [m], [m'], [n], [n'] (sonorant): may-ka, Sony-ka, so-lom-ka.
4. Sometimes two consonants can be written in a word, but sound one, for example: get rid of [izh:yt’]. Therefore, in this case, two syllables stand out: and-live. The division into parts corresponds to the rules of word transfer, and not division into syllables.
The same can be seen in the example of the verb to leave, in which the combination of consonants zzh sounds like one sound [zh:]; therefore the division into syllables will be - leave, and dividing a word to hyphenate is leave.
Errors are especially common when highlighting syllables in verb forms ending in -tsya, -tsya.
The division vit-sya, zhets-sya is a division into parts for transfer, and not a division into syllables, since in such forms the combination of letters ts, ts sounds like one sound [ts].
When dividing into syllables, combinations of letters ts, ts go entirely to the next syllable: vi-tsya, zhmy-tsya.
5. When combining several consonants in the middle of a word: two identical consonants necessarily go to the next syllable: o-flow, yes-ny; two or more consonants usually go to the next syllable: sha-pka, equal. The exception is combinations of consonants in which the first is an unpaired voiced (sonorant): letters r, rj, l, l, m, m, n, n, y: mark-ka, dawn-ka, bul-ka, stel-ka, dam-ka, ban-ka, ban-ka, bark-ka.
Charade- one of the popular types of word puzzles. Charade consists of guessing a word, parts of which can be independent words (syllables). Unlike other types of word puzzles (anagrams, metagrams, loggriffs), in charades the highlighted parts of the word do not have to be nouns, they can be any parts of speech. For example:
- If you combine two notes, you can make soup from the resulting new word. (Beans).
- If you add the necessary housewife seasoning, which is always on the dinner table, to the third note, you can get a legume plant (Fa-sol).
- The first is a preposition, the second is a girl, the whole is a mandatory attribute of a fisherman. (Fishing rod).
- The first is used in the game, the second is the mainland, the whole thing can be found in a fantasy fairy tale. (Fantasy).
Most often, poetic charades are used:
The beginning is sung by a group of people,
The second one bites us painfully,
And together it will turn out
New Year's game. (Chorus gadfly).
My first syllable is a big pile of papers,
And from the second, the porridge will be thicker.
But in general - the tree is slimmer
Not a single alley knows. (Cypress).
The first charades appeared in ancient Rome. But they were especially loved by noble people in the 18th century. Charades were often played in noble salons. Here is a charade composed at that time by an unknown author:
A barely noticeable worm, but dangerous for furs,
- There is my first one.
The sign in the alphabet is silent
- Second. And the poet and comedian-magician
There is a whole charade of this. (Mol-er).
Nowadays, charades have become an integral part of any competitions for both children and adults. They have also become popular in Internet games.
But the most interesting thing, especially for smart kids, is not making and guessing charades, but composing them. Using the cognitive interests of younger schoolchildren, the teacher can organize a game.
Games involving solving and composing charades can be very diverse. For example, you can invite several micro-groups (teams) of students to find 5-6 words in the dictionary that can be divided into parts equal to independent words. During the game (at any lesson as a warm-up-rest or during a break), the teams will collectively compose charades and take turns telling them to their opponents. Guessing time - 30 seconds. For each correct answer - 1 point, for an error or lateness 1 point is deducted. For example, the word “ash” is chosen. It can turn into a charade: “The first is a pronoun, the second is coolness, the whole is a tree.”
Another version of the game is making charades using cards, on which various syllables are written. In this game, mini-groups (teams) or individually will need to put together charades from existing parts. For this version of the game, the teacher needs to prepare in advance identical sets of cards with written parts of charades, which will then need to be handed to each participant or each team. In one minute, the participants of the game must create words from the available parts.
Examples of components of charades (cards):
1. Whale, trace, spruce, experience, pass, steam, port, mustache, bale, floor, rice, wasp, sack, weight, round, point, gas, dock, spruce, fret, hay, mouse, shaft, yak, fair. The answers may be as follows: jacket, pathfinder, passport, sail, cypress, culture, news, gazelle, report, hayloft, arsenic, fair, strip.
2. Chorus, re, pass, fort, count, yar, cult, truck, fight, tulle, vat, tack, knock, count, spruce, punishment, shooting range, go, bone, mark, para, gadfly, com, pan. Possible answers (words): brightness, oboe, quiver, tavern, astrakhan, paragraph, tulip, round dance, compass, trick, remark, tie.
3. Ar, at, kar, lot, om, pa, pi, son, tick, yew, tol, tone. Possible answers (words): arat, lobster, dad, python, pilot, attic, crowd, carat, sonar, cardboard, aroma, squash.
It’s even more interesting not to pronounce the charade, but to depict it in the form of a skit. You will need rich imagination and ingenuity to depict objects. But how much delight and positive emotions!
Here are a few words that are easy to use to make charades:
- balalaika, mumble, beard, grapes, domino;
- oriole, sausage, cabbage, Krylov, fist, aspen;
- panorama, story, tailor, dishes, conversation, family;
- dog, magpie, temperature, cod, lesson, injection, seagull;
- ditty, drawing, sneak, anchor.
And these are examples of more complex words for composing charades:
- ram duct (ram duct), air duct (air-air duct);
- hunger (hunger-knapsack), long-term construction (long-term);
- comparator (com-para-tor), mood (mood);
One of the popular types of charades is making up new words, which must contain the originally specified word. Compiling such charades can be done in any lesson as a warm-up and relaxation.
1. Add any other word to a given word and get a new one. For example, what new words can be obtained from the word “kol” by adding independent words to it? (Col - lecture, bone, ode, vat. New words: collection, barb, deck, quiver).
2. Attach any independent words to the given word and get a completely new one, the ending of which will be the originally given word. For example, what new words can be obtained from the word “spruce” by placing independent words in front of it? (Grifel, whale, post, pood, staff - spruce. New words: stylus, jacket, bed, poodle, stack).
3. By placing any words, prefixes or conjunctions in front or behind the words “cat” or “dog”, create a chain of new words. Who can do it faster? Who can make up the most words that must contain the words “cat” or “dog”? (Kettle, hiccup, scotch, rumble, clatter, arctic fox, song, sand, arrogance, elbow, pulp, boycott, gurgle, pestle, sandy loam, herpes, kettle, cutlet, knapsack, cottage, cattle, nicotine, tickle, small fry, slush , chirping, gudgeon).
4. Who can make up the most words ending in “me”? (Name, udder, seed, crown, burden, time, banner, flame, tribe, stirrup, etc.).
5. Who can come up with more and faster words that would serve as the end of the first word and the beginning of the second. For example: me (...) pancake. Answer: shock. Word options: according to (current) ar; run (mot) or; pi(.lot) ok; to you (pir) amida; go (fight) cat; talk (thief) from; on (genus) din; ku (ma) ma; on (gar) already; at (vet) ka; about (white) ka; at (stup) a; at (count) wasps; com (pass) port; im (port) tick; at (gar) already.
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(Source - Dick N.F. One is a word, two is a word: entertaining games with letters and words in elementary school / N.F. Dick. - Rostov n/D: Phoenix, 2008. - 285 p.)
