"Life is full of unexpected" PPT courseware 3

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"Life is full of unexpected" PPT courseware 3

Warm up

Do you know the history of April Fool’s Day?

2a 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?

2b Read the passage quickly. Then match each paragraph with the main idea.

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.

2c Read the passage again and answer the questions.

1.Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti one April Fool’s Day?

Because a reporter announced that there would be no more spaghetti.

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

It was said that the special water would help people lose weight.

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

Because he lost both his girlfriend and his show.

4. When did Orson Welles tell people about aliens from Mars landing on the earth?

It was in October 1938.

5. Why did so many people believe Orson Welles?

Because Orson Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story.

2d Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

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).

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.

Language points

1. April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world.

April Fool's Day is a celebration that occurs in different countries around the world.

take place means "to happen; to proceed; to hold; to produce".

2. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other. April Fool's Day is April 1st every year. On this day, people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.

play tricks on sb. means "trick someone",

play jokes on sb. means "to joke on someone".

3. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could.

People rushed to local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as possible.

as + the original form of adjective/adverb + as sb. can / could is equivalent to as + the original form of adjective/adverb + as possible, which means "as much as possible..." and is used as an adverbial in the sentence.

Example: We must do everything as well as we can. = We must do everything as well as possible. We must try our best to do everything well.

Exercises

1. We ____________ (learn) 2000 English words since we came to this school.

The teacher said we _____________ (learn )2000 English words since then.

We ____________ (learn) 500 words last term.

We ______________ (learn) 2000 words by the end of last term.

2. He _________ (have) a meeting next week.

He ______(have) a meeting two weeks ago.

He told me he __________ (have) a meeting two weeks before.

3. ______you ______( be ) to the Great Wall?

The teacher asked if you ___________( be ) to the Great Wall?

Homework

Write a diary about your lucky or unlucky day.

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