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课件网) Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected. Section B Reading (Period 3) 年 级：九年级 学 科：英语（人教版） 01 Understanding Use word chunks such as joke, sell out to discuss April Fool’s Day. 03 Innovation Develop and form how to play jokes in a proper way. Learning objectives 02 Application Summarize the history and influence of April Fool’s Day. A guessing game: what is it It can make people laugh. People like to show love on this day but not feel embarrassed if being refused. It happens on every April. April Fool’s Day People can play a trick on others. Pre-reading April Fool’s Day Have you ever played jokes on others Have you been fooled by others 呀！鞋带散啦！ What ! Pre-reading While-reading Fast-reading Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 ◆ The most famous trick played. ◆ Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool’s Day. ◆ An introduction to April Fool’s Day. ◆ A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day. 2b Read the article fast and match the main idea with each paragraph. Reading skill: Pay attention to the first and last sentences of each paragraph. The reason why the spaghetti had been sold out The thing people did after being told no more spaghetti The function(功效) of the special water The number of people who phoned to get special water While-reading Careful-reading Read Paragraph 2 and fill in the chart below. Because farmers stopped growing spaghetti. Running to …to buy as much spaghetti as they could. Helping people lose weight. More than 10,000 Q: What’s the purpose(目的) of playing such jokes Not all jokes end up being funny. While-reading Careful-reading Read Paragraph 3 and answer questions about a sad story. 1. What did the TV star do 2. Why did the TV star’s joke have a bad ending He asked his girlfriend to marry him. Because he lost both his girlfriend and his show. 3. If you were his girlfriend, would you be angry Why Because he hurt her deeply. We should play jokes properly. While-reading Careful-reading Read Paragraph 4 and tell the sentences True or False. One of the most famous tricks happened in April. Orson Welles is a director. Orsons Welles didn’t describe the way the aliens moved across the USA. Welles made the trick sound so real that thousands of people choose to leave their homes. F F F T October an actor Q: A UFO will land in our school. Do you believe that While-reading Careful-reading Background knowledge about the famous trick. While-reading Careful-reading Fear spread across the country. Hundreds of people rushed out of their homes. Some even hid themselves under the ground. The country was in a mess. It’s not only a joke! A hoax(骗局)! A rumor(谣言)! Hoaxes/rumors in life Some chain letters Phone hoax Rumors about an earthquake/covid-19 Post-reading Extended-reading A big earthquake (地震) hit Guangxi last month. But the earthquake was strongly felt by people in Zhanjiang, Guangdong. A rumor (谣言) s ... ...
