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正文级别 1文级别 2,正文级别 3,正文级别 4,正文级别 5,标题文本,#,选择性必修一,Unit 1 Laugh out loud!(2),高二年级 英语,Using language,April Fools Day,Listening and speaking,Objectives,1.get the main idea of the radio program and choose the pictures mentioned.,2.note down some information and complete the notes.,3.tell a practical joke and make comments on practical jokes.,Lead-in.,Read about April Fools Day on P7.,Q:When is it celebrated?,A:On 1,st,April.,Lead-in.,Read about April Fools Day on P7.,Q:,Where is it celebrated?,A:In many parts of the world.,Lead-in.,Read about April Fools Day on P7.,Q:What do people do on this day?,A:They play practical jokes on each other.,Lead-in.,Read about April Fools Day on P7.,Q:How long do the jokes last?,A:Half or a whole day.,Pre-listening,Describe the picture and predict what the audio talks about.,A man is harvesting something off a tree.,Pre-listening,Describe the picture and predict what the audio talks about.,A man is,running near a house.,Pre-listening,Describe the picture and predict what the audio talks about.,Two,men are smelling a TV screen.,Pre-listening,Describe the picture and predict what the audio talks about.,People are washing lions in,the street.,Listen for main idea.,Listen and summarize the main idea.,Mark tells,the presenter Karen,about three of the,best,practical jokes,in history.,Practical joke:,a trick that is intended to embarrass someone and amuse others.,Listen for detailed information.,Task 1.Listen again and choose the pictures mentioned.,Answers:d c a,Listen for detailed information.,Task 2.Listen again and complete the notes.,Joke 1,Year:1698,Main story:A newsletter reported people going to watch,1.?,at the Tower of London.The joke was played on visitors,throughout the,2.?.,Answers:1.the washing of the lions,2.18,th,and 19,th,centuries,Listen for detailed information.,Task 2.Listen again and complete the notes.,Joke 2,Year:,3.?,Main story:The,4.?,introduced an invention called“Smellovision”.It allowed,5.?,over the airwaves.,Answers:3.1965,4.BBC News Channel,5.smells to be carried,Listen for detailed information.,Task 2.Listen again and complete the notes.,Joke 3,Year:,6.?,Main story:A news program told viewers that the spaghetti trees in Switzerland were having,7.?,Answers:6.1957,7.a really good harvest,Listen for detailed information.,Task 3.Discuss which of the practical jokes is the funniest and give reasons.,Sample,Student A,：,The jokes are really funny.I think the lion one is the funniest for it worked for more than two centuries.Which one do you think is the funniest?,Student B:Yes,the lion one is funny,but the funniest one I think is the smellovision one.It reminds of the Emperors New Clothes;how could people smell something out of a screen!And some even said their eyes watered by the onion,wasnt it ridiculous!,Sample,Student A:Yeah,funny enough.I am wondering if people would be annoyed when they knew they were fooled.,Student B:I guess not.Because thats on April Fools Day,，,the jokes meant no harm and were out of amusing intention.Actually,a lot of people laughed as they knew they were taken in.,Listen for speaking.,Read the script aloud and complete the box in Activity 10 with the useful expressions from the radio program.,Listen for speaking.,Karen:Hi,I am Karen and this is“Fun time”.Im joined today by Mark Collin.Hi,Mark.,Mark:Hello!,Karen:As you know,today is the 1st of April,or as we call it,April Fools Day and Marks here to tell us about three of the best practical jokes in history.,Listen for speaking.,Mark:Indeed.Lets start with the oldest recorded April Fools joke,which took place on the 1st of April,1698.Some people were told to go to the Tower of London to watch“the washing of the lions”.,Listen for speaking.,Of course,there were no lions at the Tower of London.This was reported in a newslettersimilar to todays newspaperson the second of April that year.Apparently,this practical joke worked so well that it was played on visitors throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.,Listen for speaking.,Karen:Well,Id be pretty annoyed if someone did that to me.OK,lets hear the next one.,Mark:OK.This is a practical joke from 1965.The BBC News Channel invited a university professor to talk about his invention called“Smellovision”.,Karen:Smell-o-what?,Listen for speaking.,Mark:Smellovision!This was a type of machine that allowed smells to be carried over the airwaves.During the interview,the BBC showed images of people actually smelling a TV screen!,Karen:But I dont get it How on earth did people actually believe that there was such a thing as“Smellovision”?,Listen for speaking.,Mark:The professor did a demonstration.He placed coffee beans and onions inside the Smellovision and asked people watching the program at home to phone him if they could smell anything.And people did!Some really believed they could smell coffee beans and onions.Some even said that the onions make their eyes water!,Listen for speaking.,Karen:I see.I guess you can convince yourself of anything if you r
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