Unit 6 By the time I got outside,
[00:07.14]the bus had already left.
[00:10.03]SECTION B
[00:11.87]1a Put these words in the correct columns
[00:16.86]in the chart.
[00:19.03](Some words can go in more than one column.)
[00:23.50]fool costume
[00:27.30]go off
[00:29.84]get dressed
[00:32.58]show up change
[00:37.67]exhausted invite embarrassed
[00:45.43]get up empty realize clock stay up
[00:56.77]1b PAIRWORK
[00:59.50]Tell your partner about something
[01:02.14]that happened to you recently.
[01:05.19]Use two or more words from the list above.
[01:09.77]Last Friday night my friend invited me to his
[01:14.53]brithday party.
[01:16.34]On Saturday,I got up late and...
[01:20.62]2a Dave, Nick, and Joe
[01:23.92]are talking about April Fool's Day.
[01:26.52]Listen and write each person's name
[01:28.97]under the correct picture.
[01:31.76]Have you ever been an April Fool, Dave?
[01:34.56]Yes, I have.
[01:36.08]A friend once invited me to a costume party.
[01:38.69]When I got there,I found that he had fooled me.
[01:41.58]It wasn't a costume party.
[01:43.39]I was the only person wearing a costume.
[01:46.19]I was really embarrassed.
[01:48.02]How about you, Nick?
[01:49.86]Well,last April Fool's Day,
[01:52.12]when my alarm went off I got up,took a shower,
[01:55.51]got dressed, and went to school.
[01:57.90]But when I got there,the school was empty.
[02:00.76]I was the only one there.
[02:02.77]After an hour, the other kids showed up,
[02:04.91]and I realized that my brother had fooled me.
[02:07.73]He had? Uh-huh.
[02:09.67]He had changed the clock to an hour earlier.
[02:13.14]What happened to you on April Fool's Day, Joe?
[02:16.14]Well, I was sick last April first.
[02:18.53]My friend called me and told me
[02:20.60]we had a math test the next day.
[02:22.50]By the time I got to math class,
[02:24.02]I was exhausted because I had stayed up
[02:26.24]all night studying.
[02:27.59]Then I found out that my friend had fooled me.
[02:29.92]We didn't have a test at all!
[02:32.29]2b Listen again.
[02:34.81]Who says each of the phrases below?
[02:37.72]Write "D"(for Dave), "N"(for Nick)
[02:41.91]and "J"(for Joe).
[02:44.94]2c GROUPWORK
[02:48.31]Tell the April Fool's Day stories.
[02:52.02]Use the information from 2a and 2b.
[02:57.67]What happened to Dave on April Fool's Day?
[03:02.22]Well,a friend invited him to a costume party...
[03:08.30]3a Which of these stories is the most believable
[03:13.62]Why? Which is the least believable?
[03:17.81]Why?
[03:20.03]Would you be fooled by any of the stories?
[03:24.86]In 1938,a radio program by actor Orson Welles
[03:30.33]announced that aliens from Mars had landed
[03:33.00]on the Earth.
[03:35.46]He described where they had landed,
[03:37.66]and told how they were moving
[03:39.11]across the United States.
[03:41.94]Welles was so convincing
[03:43.96]that hundreds of people believed the story,
[03:47.14]and panic set off across the whole country.
[03:51.18]By the time the authorities revealed
[03:53.53]that the story was a hoax,
[03:55.52]thousands of people had fled from their homes.
[04:00.44]One April Fool's Day,
[04:02.04]a reporter in England announced,
[04:05.44]that there would be no more spaghetti
[04:07.89]because the spaghetti farmers in Italy
[04:11.10]had stopped growing spaghetti.
[04:13.25]Many people ran to their local supermarket
[04:17.02]to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
[04:20.10]By the time people realized
[04:22.44]that the story was a hoax,
[04:24.74]all of the spaghetti across the country
[04:27.27]had been sold out.
[04:30.56]A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend
[04:33.57]onto his show on April Fool's Day.
[04:36.82]He asked her to marry him.
[04:39.59]She was thrilled,
[04:40.96]because she really wanted to get married.
[04:44.14]However, when she said "Yes",he replied,
[04:47.56]"April Fool!"
[04:49.28]That little joke didn't have a very happy ending
[04:52.97]The TV star lost both his girlfriend
[04:56.17]and his show.
[04:58.97]3b Write a magazine story about Nick in 2a
[05:05.13]and 2b.
[05:06.80]Use the notes below.
[05:09.74]3c Write about a joke you played on someone
[05:15.28]or a joke someone played on you.
[05:18.89]Tell what happened first,
[05:21.02]what happened next,and what you realized.
[05:26.02]4 Can you Believe It?
[05:29.84]Tell your funny story from 3c to the class.
[05:35.55]The class will vote for the:
[05:38.71]a.funniest joke
[05:42.26]b.most embarrassing joke
[05:45.92]c.most creative joke
[05:49.98]What's your joke?
[05:52.80]Well,last year,on the first day of school,
[05:57.34]my sister put a piece of paper on my back
[06:00.97]that said "Please say hello."
[06:04.31]All day at school ...
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