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课件网) 学练优九年级英语下（RJ） 教学课件 Section B (2a-Self Check) Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected. Learning goals Words & phrases: announce, hoax, sell out, discovery, lady, cancel, officer, believable, disappear, embarrassing Sentence: April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. 指挥；军官 使人尴尬的 不见；消失 宣布；声称 女士 取消；注销 可信的 发现；发觉 Can you say these words Game 指挥；军官 使人尴尬的 不见；消失 宣布；声称 女士 取消；注销 可信的 发现；发觉 Match and read the words！ Matching believable cancel officer discovery disappear lady embarrassing announce April Fool's Day The teacher asks you to go to her office. You fail the English test. Lead in Have you ever played jokes on others,especially on April Fool’s Day Have you ever been fooled by others Tell your story to your partner. ... 2a Presentation Read the passage quickly. Then match each paragraph with the main idea. Paragraph 1 One of the most famous tricks played Paragraph 2 Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool’s Day Paragraph 3 An introduction to April Fool’s Day Paragraph 4 A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day 2b 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. 动词的形式分类 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 “发生；进行； 举行；产生” play tricks on sb. 意为“捉弄某人”，而play jokes on sb.则是“对某人开玩笑 ”的意思。 as +形容词/副词的原级+ as sb. can / could 相当于as + 形容词/副词原级+ as possible，意为“尽可能地……”，在句中作状语。 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 cancelled. end up doing sth.意为“以 ...... 结束 ... ...
