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PUZZLE STORIES

As you are traveling in the kingdom of Jerafa, you come upon a boy and a girl who are dressed exactly alike.

"I'm a boy," says the one with red hair.
"I'm a girl," says the one with black hair.

If at least one of them is not telling the truth, which is which?

A half-hour ago you parked your car facing east on a straight road that runs east and west. You get in and start driving. After driving for a few minutes, you find that you are now a mile west of your starting point. Why?

Ruling over the kingdom of Komosay was a very powerful king who had a beautiful daughter named Yamah. When Yamah fell in love with a poor peasant boy, the king was shocked and distressed. To show how fair he was, however, he promised to give the boy a 50-50 chance to marry his daughter by letting him choose one of two slips of paper. On one piece of paper would be written the word Marriage; on the other, the word Death. Because of his great love for Yamah, the boy agreed to take this risk. As he came near to the castle on the fateful day, he happened to overhear a conversation between the king and one of his attendants: "Your Majesty," said the attendant, "how can you do this thing, and let that unworthy boy have a chance of marrying your daughter?"

The deceitful king laughed and said. "The way I will do it, he will have no chance. I will write the word DEATH on both pieces of paper. But of course, he will not know that; he will think he has chosen the wrong piece of paper."

When the boy heard that, he was stunned, and didn't know what to do. But then he thought of a clever solution to the problem. When the time came to choose, he put his plan into action. The next day he and the princess were married. What was his solution?

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLE STORIES

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What Does It Mean to Learn a Language?: Some Perspectives on the
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ALAN CUNNINGSWORTH, Christ Church College, Canterbury

Syntactic Patterning as a Key to Meaning

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ADINA LEVINE and STELLA STATMAN, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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A Guide to Listening-Comprehension Exercises
RANDALL ROCKEY, Université d'Etat d'Haiti

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HENREID RAINS GREENSTREET LORRE

Excerpts from Radio Programs

NEWS AND IDEAS

Brazil. How to Teach the Present Perfect Tense, GYULA KARVALY
Chile. Teaching Numbers in Elementary EFL, MIGUEL LASCH FELDBERG
Third National Seminar in ESP

Hungary. Did I Say Something Wrong?, HELEN THOMAS
Israel. Testing Listening Comprehension by Radio, RAFAEL GEFEN

What Makes Our Teaching Really Worthwhile, HANA RAZ

Japan. A Notice from Cross Currents

Thailand. Teaching Writing in EST-A Communicative Syllabus, ARUNEE
WIRIYACHITRA

United Kingdom. An Integrated Listening, Writing, and Speaking Exercise,
ANN WARD

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Volume XXI
October 1983
Number 4

Anne Covell Newton
Editor

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Editorial Assistant

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Acknowledgments and copyright notices, when necessary, appear with the articles

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