Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected. SectionB 2a-2e 课件(共20张PPT)

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学习目标：
1.能熟练掌握本课的重点单词，短语sell out, discovery, cancel, believevable, disappear, embarrassing 及句型By the time police offcers announced that the story was a hoax,thousands of people had left their homes.等
2.让学生学会利用背景知识更好理解文章的阅读策略，通过读前，读中，读后的阅读任务的完成,以培养学生的阅读能力。
3. 通过阅读了解愚人节的一些知识，分享愚人节的遭遇，增进友谊。
announce spaghetti hoax
sell out discovery lady cancel officer believable
disappear embarrassing
Task 1 Learn the new words in groups
2a Have you ever played jokes on others,
especially on Aril Fool’s Day Have
you ever been fooled by others
愚人节是英、美等国家一个特有的娱乐性节日。每年4月1日，朋友、熟人间往往用一些玩笑来相互愚弄、取乐。
被成功“欺骗”了的人被大家嬉笑为“April Fool”。甚至这一天有的报纸、广播、电视等公众媒体会煞有其事地刊登或播报自编的虚假信息，令公众上当，逗个乐子。愚人节由于其特定的愉悦氛围和文化特质，深受大众喜欢。
2b Skim the passage and match
each paragraph with the main idea.
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
Read Pharagraph1-2,answer the questions as quickly as you can.
1. Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti one April Fool’s Day
2. What did the TV show say the special
water could do
April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries arund 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 anounced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghtti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could .
Read Paragraph 1–2
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 aleady lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the time of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
The tickets_______________
(卖完了) with in 2 days.
were sold out
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.
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 Paragraph Three
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.
Q3 Why did the TV star’s joke have a bad
ending
与某人结婚 marry sb.
get married to sb.
have/has been married + 一段时间
Lucy and Peter ____________ last week.
She __________ a policeman last month.
She_____________________ for five years.
got married
married
have been married
3. Why did the TV star’s joke have a bad
ending
He lost both his girlfriend and his show.
Read Paragraph Four
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 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. By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
4. When did Orson Welles tell people about aliens from Mars landing on the earth
5. Why did so many people believe Orson Welles
It was in October 1938.
Orson Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story.
6. Which of these stories is the most
believable Which is the least believable
Why
I think the story of a famous movie star is the most believable. The story of aliens from Mars is the least believable. Because the movie star is living with people. People never see any aliens on the earth.
adj.可相信的
1. After the spaghetti story __________
(appear) in the news, everyone _______
(rush) to the supermarkets.
2. By the time people ________ (find out)
the story was not true, all the spaghetti
in the supermarkets _______________
(disappear).
Finish 2d
appeared
rushed
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.
4. By the time the show _____ (end), the TV star ________ (lose) his girlfriend.
5. By the time police officers ____ (tell)
the country that the story was a hoax,
many people ____________ (run away)
from their homes.
ended
had called
ended
had lost
told
had run away
Share your funny story with your partner.
When did it happen
Where did it happen
What was the trick/joke
What’s the result
What do you think of it？
a. the funniest joke
b. the most embarrassing joke
c. the most creative joke
embarrassed adj, 常描述人，常作表语
embarrassing adj.常描述事物，作定语或表语
She looks very ________________.
That was an ______________ situation for me.
embarrassed
embarrassing
A: What’s your story
B: Well, last year, on the first day of school, my sister put a piece of paper on my back that said “Please say hello”. All morning at school…