Section B 第五课时 (2a -3b)

Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.

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spaghetti n.意大利面条

hoax n.骗局；恶作剧

sell out卖光

embarrassingadj. 害羞的

lady n.女士；女子

officer n.军官；官员

2a2a

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.

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

The most famous trick played.

Examples of funny storied that happened on April Fool’s Day.

An introduction to April Fool’s Day.

A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day.

2b2b

Read the passage quickly. Then match each paragraph with the main idea.

1.Why did the supermarkets run of spaghetti

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 ad much spaghetti as they could.

2c2c

Read the passage again and answer the questions.

2.What did the TV show say the special water could do?

They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months.

3.Why did the TV star’s joke have a bad

ending?Because he fooled her girlfriend. He made

her sad.

4.When did Orson Welles tell people about

aliens from Mars landing on the earth?

5.Why did so many people believe Orson Welles?

In October, 1938.

He made his story sound so real.

6. Which of these stories is the most believable?

Which is the least believable? Why?

I think the story told by Orson Welles is the

most believable one. Because it made

hundreds of people believed the story, and

fear spread across the whole country.

7. Would you be fooled by any of these stories?

I think the story that there would be no

more spaghetti because the spaghetti

farmers in Italy had stopped growing

spaghetti is the most unbelievable. Because

farmers in Italy would never stop growing

spaghetti.

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).

had appeared

rushed

had found out

disappeared

2d2d

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

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

endedhad lost

told

had ran away

a. the funniest joke

b. the most embarrassing joke

c. the most creative joke

2e2e

Tell your funny story from 2a to the class. The class will vote for:

What’s your

story?

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...

What was the date?

What happened first?

Was this lucky or unlucky? Why?

What happened next?

How did the day end?

How did you feel about this day?

3a3a

Can you remember a lucky or an unlucky day? What happened? Make some notes about what you remember.

My lucky/ unlucky day

I will always remember the date...

This was the luckiest/ unluckiest day of my

life...

When I woke up that morning...

Later that day...

Write a story about your lucky orunlucky day and tell your story to a partner or the class.

3b3b

I couldn’t believe...

Then/After that,...

Finally,...

I think...

What a lucky/ an unlucky day!

1. One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England annou

nced that there would be no more spaghetti because t

he spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spa

ghetti.

announce 作及物动词，意为“宣布； 述说； 声称”， 侧重预报人们所关心或感兴趣的事情，尤指新闻之类的消息。如： Our manager announced that he would take

charge of it. 我们经理宣布说他将负责此事。

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2.By the time people realized that the story was a hoax,

all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold

out.

（ 1 ） hoax 作动词，意为“欺骗；戏弄”。如： They hoax him out of his money. 他们骗去他的钱 .

Dr. Fassbender and Operation Looking Glass are

certainly no hoax. 法斯本德教授和他的窥镜系统可不是开玩笑的 .

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hoax 还可作可数名词，意为“骗局；戏弄；恶作剧。”如： They were the victims of a cruel hoax.

他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。He denied making the hoax call but was convicted afte

r a short trial. 他否认打过恶作剧电话，但经过一番短暂的审讯后被判有罪。

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（ 2 ） sold out 是 sell out 的过去式和过去分词形式。

sell out 意为“卖光，脱销”。如： All the tickets for the last performance have sold

out already. 最近一场演出的票已经全部卖光。Seven impressions of the novel have been sold out. 这本小说印了七次都卖光了。

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用所给词的正确形式填空。1.They got _________(marry) 10 years ago.

2. Stars ___________(appear) in the day and appear

at night.

3. The story isn't ___________ (believe).

4. He likes the films with a happy ________ (end).

5.People have some new ____________ (discover)

every day.

marrieddisappear

believable

ending

discoveries

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