The document contains a variety of puzzles, riddles, questions and activities including: 1) A riddle about a van crash where the injured boy is taken to the surgeon who says he can't operate as the boy is his son. 2) Questions about recognizing languages from phrases provided and identifying misspelled words. 3) An activity about diversity and inclusion in a hair salon setting. 4) Puzzles, riddles and quizzes including number sequences, what day of the week it is based on prior days, and holding something in your right vs. left hand.

1. Sample Starter Activities

2. Riddle
A van driver whistles to a nurse on the
street then swerves to miss a parked car
and crashes into a young boy and his
father who are driving to school. The
father dies at the scene. The boy is
transported to the hospital, taken
immediately into surgery... but the surgeon
steps out of the operating room and says,
"I can't operate on this boy - he is my son”!

3. Riddle - questions
• How can the boy be the surgeon’s son?
• Is the van driver a man or woman?

6. Can you recognise the languages?
• Bones tardes
• 午安 (ńgh ōn)
• Bon après-midi
• Guten Tag
• Boa tarde
• Добрый день! (Dobryj den'!)

7. • Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll
raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.
• How mnay wrdos are slept wonrg?
Can you read this?

8. Equality & Diversity
• You have five minutes to come up with five
ways in which Equality and Diversity are an
integral part of your GH19 & GH20 salon
services
• Please hand in your completed sheet as we
will discuss this further

9. If the day after the day before
yesterday was Tuesday, and the
day before the day after tomorrow
is Thursday, what day is today?
What can you hold in your
right hand, but not in your
left?

10. If you have me, you want to share me. If
you share me, you haven't got me. What
am I?
What gets wetter and wetter the more it
dries?
Which word in the dictionary is spelled
incorrectly?

11. What is it & what does it do?

12. Look at the picture below, imagine you are staying in one
of the tents. Why are you there? What are you doing?
Where are you going next? How are you feeling?

13. Quick Quiz
What is the capital city of England?
Where is Hadrian’s Wall found?
What is the capital city of Wales?
What are the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk together
also known as?
What is the capital city of Northern Ireland?
What is the famous clock and tower in the capital city
of England known as?
What is the capital city of Scotland?
What do people commemorate on November the 11th
every year?
Who is the prime minister?
Who is the patron saint of England?

14. Sequence
• 4, 8, 12, 16, _ _
• 22, 51, 80, 109, _ _ _
• 3, 9, 27, 81, _ _ _

15. 5 minute sand timer
5 minutes
End