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The Knight and the Dragon Riddle
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This riddle is very simple but the story is long. I have only used this with small groups of five or less. When I teach it, I usually go over the story with students (up until the first blank). Then I tell the students to turn their papers over and each student has to retell the story.
While they are retelling I often interrupt and try to force them to be more precise. I try to make sure they are using the definite and indefinite articles correctly. That is to say, when they introduce something in the story, they use 'a' and thereafter, they use 'the'. For example:
A dragon and a knight lived in a valley. The valley had six poison wells.
After every student has retold the story, then I ask them to plan their strategy as if they were the dragon. Usually, I have the bottom part folded over so that they can't see what comes next.
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Then I go over the bottom part of the page and I ask them to figure out why the dragon died and the knight lived. Usually, they can come up with an answer, and sometimes they even come up with an original answer.
Also see: Using riddles to Teach the Language of Logic and Precision by Yoda Schmidt. An ESL/EFL article.