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Unit 12
Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B 1a~1e
Learning goals
3. Sentence: What happened to Dave on April Fool’s Day?
1. Words & Expression: fool, costume, embarrassed, costume party
2. Functions: To give students listening and speaking practice.
What do you know about the April Fool’s Day?
Lead in
It is celebrated every year on the first day of April. It has been popular since the 19th century. The day is not a national holiday in any country, but it is well known in Europe, Australia, Brazil and the United States.
On this day, people play jokes and hoaxes on each other. The jokes and their victims are known as “April fools”.
April Fools’ Day
= April Fool’s Day
= All Fools’ Day
Nouns
(people, places, things) Verbs
(action words) Adjectives
(description words)
fool fool embarrassed
1a Put these words in the correct columns in the chart.
Some words can go in more than one column.
fool invite costume embarrassed go off call
get dressed empty show up realize change clock tired stay up
costume
call
change
clock
invite, go off
call, get dressed
empty, show up
realize, change
stay up
empty
tired
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1b Tell your partner about something that happened to you recently. Use two or more words in 1a.
e.g. Last Friday night, my friend invited me to his birthday party. When I got there, I found it was a costume party. I was the only person who wasn’t wearing a costume. I was really embarrassed.
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Look at the people in the pictures and guess their feelings.
scared
sleepy
shocked
embarrassed
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Last Friday night, my friend invited me to her costume party. I got dressed and showed up on time. I met many friends that I had not seen for a long time. They asked me to sing a song, but I am not good at singing. So I felt embarrassed at first, but then I told them a funny story which made everyone laugh. We stayed up fairly late. I got up late the next mo