Little Red Riding Hood (satire and pub quiz with solution)
I wrote this extract for the university students of the University of Erfurt who are studying English as a Christmas ‘fun?’ end-of-term exercise. As the text is very specialised, it is accompanied by an acrostic pub quiz, which contains the most difficult lexical items. At first glance, the quiz may seem to be too difficult even for BA students, but a ‘pub quiz’ involves working in teams and our students managed to solve it very effectively. The key to the quiz shows that once one of the Three Wise Men has been solved, it is not a difficult task to work out the other two. However, each item needs to be correctly aligned with its definition, but then the range of options would be somewhat limited. Hopefully, the students will be challenged by the quiz, but it is a good idea to award appropriate small prizes for the best three teams.