1、Unit 12Life is full of the unexpected.,Section B (2a2e),What day is April 1st？,What can people do on April Fools Day?,What kind of jokes can we play on April Fools Day?,Read the first sentence of each paragraph. Then match each paragraph with the main idea.,Paragraph 1Paragraph 2Paragraph 3Paragraph
2、 4, The most famous trick played Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fools Day. An introduction to April Fools Day A sad story that happened on April Fools Day,Fast reading,most famous trick,Examples,introduction,A sad story,Careful reading,1.Go through paragraph 1 quickly. Then fill in
3、 the blanks.,April Fools Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world . It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.,what,when,where,how,April Fools Day,April 1st,in different countries,play all ki
4、nds of tricks and jokes,2. Paragraph 2 : examples,two,First one : spaghetti (意大利面条)Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti ?,use up,A reporter,announced,Farmers spaghetti.,So, there would be no more spaghetti.,had stopped growing,People,ran to the supermarkets,to .,buy as much spaghetti as the
5、y could,Result,All of the spaghetti across the country .,had been sold out,2. Paragraph 2 : two examples,Second one : the discovery of .,special water,loseweight,in just four months.,By the end of the day , people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.,more than 10,000,What can
6、 you learn from the two examples? ( ),Each coin has two sides. Think carefully before you act.C. Where there is a will , there is a way. (有志者事竟成),B,3. Paragraph 3 : a sad story,A TV star,his girlfriend,onto his show .,invited,He asked her to marry him.,The lady was so happy and said yes.,But the man
7、 played a joke on her.,3. Paragraph 3 : a sad story,Do you think it is very funny?,It ended up being not funny. Because the TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.,What can you learn from the sad story?,Maybe we shouldnt play tricks about love or marriage (婚姻) .,Did the story have a h
8、appy ending? Why?,4. Read paragraph 4 aloud .Then fill in the blanks.,In October, 1938,Orson Welles,aliens from Mars had landed on the earth,thousands of people had left their homes,Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story , and fear spread across the whole country.,Wh
9、at does “ it ” refer to?,He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States.,Can we play jokes about things related to (与.有关) safety or crime (犯罪)？,Wed better not. If so, the world will be in a panic(处于恐慌中).,1. After the spaghetti story _ (appear) in the news,
10、everyone _ (rush) to the supermarkets.2. By the time people _ (find out) the story was not true, all the spaghetti in the supermarkets _ (disappear). 3. By the time the day _ (end), more than 10,000 people _ (call) the TV station to ask about the special water. 4. By the time the show _ (end), the T
11、V star _ (lose) his girl friend.5. By the time police officers _ (tell) the country that the story was a hoax, many people _ (run away) from their homes.,2d Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.,appeared,rushed,found out,had disappeared,ended,had called,ended,had lost,t
12、old,had run away,1.Talk about things happened to Mary and Dave on April Fools Day.,went off ; got up ; got dressed; went to school; empty; after an hour ; showed up ; her brother; changed her clock to an hour earlier,his friend ; gave him a biscuit ; felt strange ; put toothpaste ( /?tu:pe?st/ 牙膏) i
13、nto ; brushed his teeth,Post reading,practicing,Now its your turn to talk about your own stories . And well vote for :,a. the funniest joke b. the most embarrassing(尴尬的) joke c. the most creative joke,On April Fools Day , we can play different kinds of jokes , but wed better not play jokes about lov
14、e 、 marriage(婚姻) or things related to (与.有关) safety or crime (犯罪). The reporters also should be responsible for what they said. Jokes help us relax ourselves and we may not use them to hurt others.,Have a happy April Fools Day,Homework,Write a short passage about what happened to you on April Fools Day.,U盘、电脑坏了？教学资料不见了？以前的资料没保存？每一届重复劳动？找不到精品课件、试题、教案反思？各大文库价格昂贵？来【163文库】吧，你可以：上传分享资料赚取零用钱；创建教学空间，分类收藏存储资料；方便下届使用；百万教学资源供你下载；【平台地址：】,
