April-Fools教学课件.doc

Festival Note 1) April Fool’s Day 1st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily ( 1 ) by someone. It’s April Fool’s Day, a day when people traditionally like to try to ( 2 )someone else and laugh at them. There are lots of theories surrounding the ( 3 ) of the day, but one explanation is connected with the change in the calendar in the 16th century, which meant that 1st April was no longer the beginning of the year. Those who still ( 4 ) the New Year on 1st April were called fools. So what kind of pranks do people play on April Fool’s Day? Well, there are lots of ( 5 ) that you can play on your friends. For example, you could wear a black sweater and pull a piece of white thread through it, so that people try to pull it off. You could change the time on someone’ s ( 6 ) so that they’re late for work. Or glue a coin to the floor and see how many people try to ( 7 ). All these are small-scale practical jokes which you might play on one other person or a few people. But there’s also a tradition of large companies attempting to fool a lot of people. For example a burger restaurant once claimed that they were introducing a ( 8 ) burger! In particular, the media often try to make people believe something which is not true. Newspapers publish some ludicrous stories every year, although some of them are actually true. It’s ( 9 ) to try to guess which stories are true and which are ( 10 ). In the April Fool’s stories, they often include a clue to the fact that it’s a joke. For example the name of an ‘expert’ quoted in the article might be an anagram of ‘April Fool’. Radio and television programmes have also fooled many people by broadcasting reports which are untrue. One programme announced the invention of an amazing new weight-loss product - water which contained minus calories! And one of the most famous hoaxes ever was broadcasted by the BBC itself in 1957! A very serious news programme called Panorama reported on the poor