This lesson gives students the opportunity to find out about what happens on April Fool’s Day, April 1st, in the UK. It’s the one day of the year when it’s acceptable to play jokes on your friends and colleagues. Many countries have their own equivalent of April Fool’s Day.

Topic: April Fool's Day

Age: Teenage/adult

Level: Intermediate+

Timing: 60-90 mins

Aims:

• To develop reading and speaking skills.
• To introduce students to April Fool’s Day in the UK.

Plan components

Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure.

Download lesson plan 115k pdf

Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:

• Six tasks based around April Fool's day in the UK.

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For more information about this topic you can visit these BBC and British Council sites:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/spring/april/index.shtml
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
• http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/april-fools-day

Jo Budden, Teacher, Materials Writer, British Council, Spain

The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. Where indicated, there is also audio available to be downloaded. Audio is supplied in mp3 format. If you have difficulty downloading the materials see the download section of the Help page.

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