人教版九年级英语全一册教学课件Unit 12第4课时(B 2a-2e)

发生；进行；举行；产生
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.
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.
发现，发觉 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 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.
lady cancel officer believable disappear embarrassing
n.女士；女子 v.取消；终止 n.军官；官员 adj.可相信的；可信任的
v.消失；不见
adj.使人害羞的 (难堪的或惭愧的)
Let’s read
embarrassing
cancel
disappear
1. What can you see in the picture? A UFO.
2. What may the passage talk about? It may talk about the little trick on the April Fool’s Day. Perhaps the trick is about the UFO.
2a on April Fool’s Day? Have you ever been fooled
by others? Tell your story to your partner.
老师叫你 马上去他 办公室！
对噢，老师 让我通知你 作业重写！
Look at the picture and questions in 2b. Then answer the questions below.
Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B 2a-2e
R·九年级下册
Words and phrases
announce spaghetti hoax discovery sell out
v. 宣布；宣告 n.意大利面条 n. 骗局；恶作剧 n.发现；发觉 卖光
One of the most famous tricks 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
3. How many stories are mentioned in this passage? Four.
2b
Read the passage quickly. Then match each paragraph with the main idea.
Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4
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spaghetti announce
officer hoax
lady discovery believable
Lead-in Retell the three boys’ stories
Dave
Nick
Joe
Have you ever played jokes on others, especially
play tricks on sb. 意为“捉弄某人” play jokes on sb. 意为“对某人开玩笑”
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 the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. 卖光