(共15张PPT)
Unit 12
Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B
(2b-2d)
Warming up
Have you ever played jokes on April Fool’s Day
Lead in
Have you ever been fooled by others
Tell your story to your partner.
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
Task 1 -- Research & Interaction
3a
Read the passage quickly. Then match each paragraph
with the main idea.
Task 2 -- Research & Interaction
Read the second paragraph together and answer the questions.
1. Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti one April
Fool’s Day
A reporter announced that there would be no more
spaghetti because spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.
用光，用尽
2. What did the TV show say the special water could do
It was said that the special water would help people lose
weight.
Read the third & fourth paragraph in groups and answer the questions.
Research & Interaction
1. Why did the TV star’s joke have a bad ending
He lost both his girlfriend and his show.
2. When did Orson Welles tell people about aliens from Mars
landing on the earth
It was in October 1938.
3. Why did so many people believe Orson Welles
Because Orson Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story.
Research & Interaction
After reading the passage, express your own ideas.
1. Which of these stories is the most believable
Which is the least believable Why
可信的
I think the first is the most believable because it’s possible that farmers in Italy stop growing spaghetti.
And the second is the least believable because there’s no water like this on the earth.
2. Would you be fooled by any of these stories
Yes, I would. / No, I wouldn’t.
被…愚弄
Task 3 -- Feedback
Read the passage together and fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
2d
1. After the spaghetti story _______(appear) in the news,
everyone _______(rush) to supermarkets.
appeared
rushed
2. By the time people ________ (find out) the story was not
true, all the spaghetti in the supermarkets ____________
(disappear).
found out
had disappeared
3. By the time the day _____ (end), more than 10,000 people
_________ (call) the TV station to ask about the special
water.
ended
had called
4. By the time the show _____ (end), the TV star _______
(lose) his girl friend.
ended
had lost
消失
5. By the time police officers ____ (tell) the country
that the story was a hoax, many people _________
(run away) from their homes.
told
had run away
发生
和…开玩笑
尽某人所能…
4.卖光
5.以…而告终
6.娶/嫁某人
7.和某人结婚
8.使它听起来如此真实
take place
play jokes on…
as… as sb. could
sell out…
end up doing…
marry sb.
get / be married to sb.
make it sound so real
Research & Extension
& sold out… & sold…
Puzzling sentences
It happened on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
它发生在每年的4月1日，这是一个许多人会互相搞各种各样的恶作剧和开各种各样的玩笑的日子。
When many people … on each other为定语从句，由关系副词when引导，先行词为a day.
I’ll never forget the day when I joined the Party.
我永远忘不了我入党的那天。
Puzzling sentences
By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
等人们意识到这是一个恶作剧时，全国所有的意大利面条已经卖光啦。
比赛的门票已经全部售完了。
过去完成时的被动语态: had been done
sell out 卖光
The tickets of the game have been sold out
用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。
There is always something _________ (expected) in our daily life, so try your best to solve it.
When I got into the room, the bell __________ (ring) for many times.
3. Many people _________ (fool) on April Fool’s Day in my class last year.
4. What he said is _________ (believe). We can do as he said.
5. By the time we saw it, the strange sound _______________(disappear) already.
unexpected
had rung
were fooled
believable
had disappeared
Practice makes perfect
Practice makes perfect
Yesterday I used up all the salt to cook dumplings. I need
to buy some now. (替换划线部分)
A. ate up B. run out of C. ran of D. ran out of
2. --- Jim, you look sleepy. What’s wrong
--- I _____ to write a report last night
A. looked up B. ended up C. stayed up D. took up
3. The sports meeting _____ in our city next week.
A. will take place B. will happen
C. took place D. happened
4. The mobile phone has influenced people’s life a lot since it _______.
A. invents B. invented C. is invented D. was invented
1. Reading: April Fool’s Day
2. Language points:
发生
和…开玩笑
尽某人所能…
4.卖光
5.以…而告终
6.娶/嫁某人
7.和某人结婚
8.使它听起来如此真实
take place
play jokes on…
as… as sb. could
sell out…
end up doing…
marry sb.
get / be married to sb.
make it sound so real
