九年级英语unit12period6.ppt

10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water. Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married. However, when she said “yes”, he replied, “April Fool!” That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled. One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States. Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. By the time police o?cers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes. April fool’s Day no spaghetti sold out April fool’s Day England lose weight phoned the TV station to find out how to get the water to marry him his girlfriends was canceled October The USA Aliens from Mars had left their homes take place announced could had been sold out realized end up lost was canceled landed sound spread Language points 1.?April?Fool’s?Day?is?a?celebration?that?takes place?in?different?countries?around the?world. ?愚人节一种发生在世界上不同国家的庆祝活动。 take place 意为“发生；进行；举行；产生”。 take place 与 happen take place 通常指事先计划或预料到的事情发生，?还可表示“举行”的意思。 happen 常指具体的事情发生，特指那些偶然或出乎意料发生的事情，后接不定式，表示“碰巧；恰好”之意。 例：The?sports?meeting?will?take?place?in our? school.?运动会将在我校举行。 I?happened?to?be?in?the?lab?that?day.? 那天我碰巧在实验室。 2. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other. 愚人节是每年的四月一日，在这一天，人们互相捉弄开各种玩笑。 play tricks on sb. 意为“捉弄某人”，而play jokes on sb.则是“对某人开玩笑 ”的意思。 Its impolite to laugh at, stare at o