Alternate Collaboration Exercise
I. Q. TEST #1
Here are some real puzzlers for you!
Decipher the hidden meaning of each set of words.
1
2
3
4
often
EXIT
belt
hitting
not
LEG
night fly
often
not
often
5
6
MIGR
7
AINE
8
9ALL5
SPRING
SUMMER
AUTUMN
N
once
_------E upon
a
time
S
WINTER
9
10
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE
GET
GET
GET
GET
11
breth
EMPLOY
T
MEN
esroh riding
15
14
13
12
wire
just
16
GRIMY
SMUDGED
FILTHY
BESMIRCHED
UNWASHED
FOUL
SOILED
TARNISHED
UNCLEAN
SOOTY
SULLIED
DUSTY
DO12”OR
After the groups have completed this phase of the exercise, pass out the answer
sheets. Instruct the students to score their individual and group worksheets by
totaling the number of correct answers.
ANSWERS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Hitting below the belt
Out on a limb
More often then not
Fly by night
A splitting headache
A man for all seasons
All in a day’s work
Westside story
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Forgive and forget
Short of breath
Accident prone
Horseback riding
Men out of work
Just under the wire
Dirty dozen
A foot in the door
INSTRUCTOR NOTE: SOME ANSWERS WILL NOT BE EXACTLY THE
SAME AS THE ANSWER SHEET. YOU’LL HAVE TO BE THE JUDGE. FOR
EXAMPLE: “MIDDLE OF THE ROAD” COULD BE “ A NARROW ROAD” OR
“A SPLITTING HEADACHE” COULD BE ANSWERED “A SPLITTING
MIGRAINE”
STEP 4: Post all the individual scores of each team member in the individual
score block of Overhead Slide OV-2 under the appropriate Group column.
- Have someone from each team calculate the average of the individual
scores and post that in the average block for each team.
- Post the score for the group consensus for each of the teams.