Hello!

Semana passada tivemos uma entrevista com o autor dos livros de pensamento lateral e inovação, Paul Sloane. Hoje trago 04 quizzes de lateral thinking para você ver como estão suas habilidades de resolver problemas criativamente.

Os quizzes estão em inglês e embaixo de cada um deles há o vocabulário das palavras e expressões mais difíceis. Deixe sua sugestão de resposta nos comentários que em breve

01. Shoe shop shuffle
In a small town there are four shoe shops of about the same size and each carries a similar line of shoes. Yet one shop loses three times as many shoes to theft as each of the other shops. Why and how did they fix the problem?

yet – porém
theft – roubo

02. The school inspection
A schoolteacher knew that the school superintendent would visit the next day. The superintendent would ask questions such as spellings or mental arithmetic of the class, and the teacher would choose a pupil to answer. The teacher wanted to give the best impression of the school. What instructions did she give the children in order to create the best impression and maximize the chances that the right answer was given to each question?

spelling – ortografia
pupil – aluno

03. Brush fires
The Los Altos Hills County Fire District commissioners in California had a severe problem with brushwood fires on the slopes of the hills around the town. If they cleared away the brushwood with tractors they could cause sparks which would start fires. What did they do?

slope – declive, ladeira
hill – colina, morro
clear away – limpar
spark – faísca

04.The coconut millionaire
A man buys coconuts at $5 a dozen and sells them at $3 a dozen. Because of this he becomes a millionaire. How?

Amanhã trago a resposta dos quizzes (in English, too!).