人教版九年級英語下冊《Life is full of unexpected》SectionB PPT課件下載(第2課時)，共46頁。
Objectives
To learn the new words and expressions:announce, spaghetti, hoax, sell out,discovery, lady, cancel, officer, believable, disappear, embarrassing...
To know about the April Fool’s Day.
Warming up
USING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
Carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph can activate your own knowledge of the topic and help you guess what the whole text is about.
April Fool’s 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.
One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married. However, when she said “yes”, he replied, “April Fool!” That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.
One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States. Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country.
Language points
1. Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny.
end up (doing sth.) 以……結束；最終成為；最后處于
e.g. Every time she tried to argue with her husband, she ended up crying her eyes out.
每回她試著和她丈夫爭辯，她總是以流淚結束。
end up sth. 表示“結束某事”。
e.g. The scientist ended up his speech at last.
那個科學家最后結束了演講。
end up with sth. （以……）結束
e.g. The students began with speaking English, but ended up with speaking Chinese.
同學們以說英語開始， 卻以說漢語結束。
2. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
很多人跑到當地的超市搶購盡可能多的意大利面。
as +形容詞/副詞的原級+ as sb. can / could 相當于as + 形容詞/副詞原級+ as possible，意為“盡可能地……”，在句中作狀語。
例：We must do everything as well as we can.
= We must do everything as well as possible.
我們要盡量做好每一件事。
Homework
Make a conversation like Section B 2e.
Interview two Ss and write down their interesting stories that happened on April Fool’s Day.
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