Level - Intermediate and above

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.

Plan components

Lesson Plan: - guide for teacher on procedure including worksheet tasks and answers to tasks.

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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://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-trivia-hoaxes.htm
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-april-fool.htm

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

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