Activity A – What do you know?

Activity A – What do you know?

1. Is April Fools’ Day celebrated in your country?

2. What typically happens?

3. Do you know anything about its history?

Activity B – Can you guess?

Read the headlines from an article about April Fools’ Day. In pairs, discuss what you think the joke was. Briefly summarise your ideas. Then compare your ideas with another pair.

Pasta grows on trees

The fastest pitcher of all time

Redefining pi

Left-handed toilet paper

The Taco Liberty Bell

Big Ben goes digital

Colour TV? Try stockings

Goodbye, Space Needle

Google Gulp

Don’t drink and surf

Activity C – Were you right?

Read the article and discuss which pair’s summary is closest to each of the actual stories.

https: //edition. cnn. com/2019/04/01/us/best-april-fools-day-pranks-trnd/index. html

Activity D – Build your vocabulary

What other words can you find in the article that are similar in meaning to ‘joke’?

Are there any differences in their meaning? (use a dictionary to check if you are not sure)

Activity E – Build your vocabulary

Find the following phrasal verbs in the article. What do they mean in the context of the text?

Phrasal verb	Meaning
come up with
catch on
go on
go over
be taken in
turn into
stock up
pop up
run in
work with
take out
put on
fall for
fall down
skip to
branch out
make way

Activity E – use new vocabulary – speaking contest

Think about April Fools’ pranks that:

- you have played

- have been played on you

- you have heard of

You have 5 minutes to think about what you are going to say. Then you have 5 minutes to tell the people in your group about the pranks. Score a point for each vocabulary item from this lesson that you use when you are speaking.

The winner is the person who uses the most words accurately and appropriately.