Task 1 – lead-in . (speaking, reading). (reading, speaking)

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Tasks: to discover the origins of the festival

to tell the difference between facts and hoaxes

to describe a practical joke

Preparation: make copies of the worksheet (1 copy for each student)

Skills: speaking, reading

Language: general grammar and vocabulary

Sources: Task ‚ – adapted from en. wikipedia. org – the FREE encyclopaedia

Task 1 – lead-in

(speaking, reading)

■ Write April Fool’s Day on the board and elicit Prima Aprilis as its Polish equivalent. Elicit the meaning of the phrase and/or some facts about the day, e. g. the fact that we play tricks on people (and we are allowed to do so).

■ Ask whether your Ss know the history behind the festival. Accept any ideas (do not evaluate them).

■ Distribute the worksheets and ask the Ss to read the text in Task Ѓ. After a while ask a few comprehension questions (see below). Solve any language problems.

questions ??? questions

[suggested comprehension questions: ] · Do we know when the first April Fool’s Day was celebrated? à NO, the origins are unclear. · When were the New Year celebrations longer: before or after 1582? à BEFORE, they took eight days. · People who accepted the new calendar were called fools. True or False? à FALSE. Those who did not accept the calendar became known as fools. · Do people get a day off on April 1^st? à NO. Because it is not a public holiday.

Task 2

(reading, speaking)

■ Explain the meaning of the word HOAX. Explain that there is a long tradition of newspapers publishing hoaxes (=false information) on April 1^st. One of the first and most famous television hoaxes was broadcast in 1957 on BBC. People watching BBC on that day could see that spaghetti grows on trees somewhere in Europe. Explain that in this task Ss are going to have a look at some hoaxes from 2004.

■ Pre-teach some new/difficult words. Point out that ‘SHEF technology’ is pronounced exactly as ‘chef’.

■ Explain that all the statements come from newspapers and magazines which were published on April 1^st, 2004. Most of them are hoaxes, i. e. untrue, made up, while 2 of them are facts. Still, people thought that they were hoaxes as well. Your Ss’ task is to choose two statements which they think are true.

Key

Genuine events that had been interpreted as April Fools: · The National Archives (UK) revealed that during the Cold War, there were British plans to use chickens to regulate the temperature in a nuclear bomb. · The Associated Press reported that Google would start an e-mail service with 1 GB of storage for each user.

The remaining statements are all hoaxes.

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