1. INSERT THE MISSING WORDS ABOUT THE APRIL FOOLS' DAY!

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April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is the ____________ (1.) day of April. It is traditionally a day for ____________ (2.) pranks on unsuspecting people. In many countries it is the custom on this day to play tricks on people. A favourite joke is to send someone on a fool's errand, a search for something that does not exist. The victim is called an April ____________ (3.).

No one knows where the April Fools' custom ____________ (4.). The origin is uncertain but may be related to the arrival of ____________ (5.) in late March, when nature is said to "fool" humanity with changes in ____________ (6.). Another explanation has to do with the change to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, which moved New Year's Day to January 1.

When a person grows confused or realizes he is being ____________ (7.), the joker calls out “April Fool!”. In France, people stick cut-out paper fish on another person's back or send them anonymously in the mail. People also gift each other gag ____________ (8.) and then when the victims are taken in by ____________ (9.), all the witnesses shout 'April Fool' at once. The innocent pranks such as prompting somebody that their shoelaces are undone or that they have something on their faces are quite common. ____________ (10.) love to use the opportunity to prank their classmates and even their schoolteachers.

2. MATCH THE WORDS WITH THEIR DEFINITIONS!

a prank to crack jokes gag gifts

to make jokes funny, humorous gifts a practical joke

3. APRIL IS THE MONTH, ASSOCIATED WITH - WRITE THE KEY WORDS:

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1. ____________________________________________________________________

2. ____________________________________________________________________

3. ____________________________________________________________________

4. ____________________________________________________________________

1. INSERT THE MISSING WORDS - FAMOUS QUOTES AND SAYINGS ABOUT FOOLS AND FOOLISHNESS!

1. The first of April is the day we ______________ what we are the other 364 days of the year. (Mark Twain)

2. You will do ______________ things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)

3. The more pity, that ______________ may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. (William Shakespeare)

4. The point of living and of being an optimist is to be ______________ enough to believe the best is yet to come. (Peter Ustinov)

5. Talk sense to a ______________ and he calls you foolish. (Euripides)

6. It is human nature to think wisely and act ______________. (Anatole France)

1. APRIL FOOL'S PRANKS - choose your favourite!

1. Hard boil an egg and place it in the regular egg carton the night before. In the morning, ask someone to help you make breakfast and beat the egg to make omelettes. Hand them the hard-boiled egg and watch them trying to crack it!

2. Late at night, fill the hair-dryer with baby powder. Catch the expression of someone who has just washed his or her hair and turned it white by using the hair dryer.

3. Draw funny eyebrows and a moustache on the faces of your family members while they are asleep.

4. This can be done in a class, an office or at home. Ask your friends, colleagues and siblings to perform particular actions together at the same pre-planned time like dropping their pencils at the same time, to tie shoelaces, to reboot their computers, to drink water or any such innocent actions. These synchronized actions are sure to surprise anybody who will wonder about what is happening.

1. DECIDE: a TRUTH or a PRANK?

1. Japanese long-distance runner Kimo Nakajimi entered the London Marathon in 1983 but got confused by a translation of the rules and thought he had to run for 26 days, not 26 miles. He was discovered, after the race was well over, out running in the English countryside.

A) TRUE

B) APRIL FOOL

2. Swiss farmers enjoyed a particularly good spaghetti crop from the country's spaghetti trees in 1957.

1. TRUE

2. APRIL FOOL

KEY

1.

1. first

2. playing

3. Fool

4. began

5. spring

6. weather

7. tricked

8. gifts

9. surprise

10. children

2.

Prank: a practical joke

To crack jokes to make jokes

Gag gifts: funny, humorous gifts

3.

1. the April Fools' Day - 1^st April

2. spring

3. rainy weather, April rain, rainbow

4. the Earth Day - 22^nd April

4.

1. remember

2. foolish

3. fools

4. foolish

5. fool

6. foolishly

5.

Students decide

6.

1. APRIL FOOL

2. APRIL FOOL

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