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1、关于愚人节英语演讲2021 关于愚人节英语演讲11st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by someone. Its April fools Day, a day when people traditionally like to try to make a fool of someone else and laugh at them.There are lots of theories surrounding the origins of the day, but one explanation i

2、s connected with the change in the calendar in the 16th century, which meant that 1st April was no longer the beginning of the year. Those who still celebrated the New Year on 1st April were called fools.So what kind of pranks do people play on April fools Day? Well, there are lots of simple tricks

3、that you can play on your friends. For example, you could wear a black sweater and pull a piece of white thread through it, so that people try to pull it off. You could change the time on someones alarm clock so that theyre late for work. Or glue a coin to the floor and see how many people try to pi

4、ck it up.All these are small-scale practical jokes which you might play on one other person or a few people. But theres also a tradition of large companies attempting to fool a lot of people. For example a burger restaurant once claimed that they were introducing a left-handed burger!In particular,

5、the media often try to make people believe something which is not true. Newspapers publish some ludicrous stories every year, although some of them are actually true. Its entertaining to try to guess which stories are true and which are fake. In the April Fools stories, they often include a clue to

6、the fact that its a joke. For example the name of an expert quoted in the article might be an anagram of April Fool.Radio and television programmes have also fooled many people by broadcasting reports which are untrue. One programme announced the invention of an amazing new weight-loss product - wat

7、er which contained minus calories!And one of the most famous hoaxes ever was broadcast by the BBC itself in 1957! A very serious news programme called Panorama reported on the poor spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, and showed pictures of farmers picking spaghetti from trees! Hundreds of people were

8、taken in and wrote to the BBC asking how to grow their own spaghetti.关于愚人节英语演讲2April fools day is a day to play jokes on others, no one knows how this holiday began but people think it first started in france. in the 16 th century, people celebrated new years day from march 25 to april 1.in the mid1

9、560s king charles ix changed it from march 25 to january 1. but some people still celebrated in on april 1, so others called them april fools. each country celebrates april fools day differently.in france, people call the april fools “april fish”. they tape a paper fish to their friends backs to foo

10、l them. when he or she finds this , they shout “april fish!” in england, people play jokes only in the morning. you are a “noodle” if someone fools you.in scotland, april fools day is 48 hours long. they call an april fool “april gowk”. gowk is another name for a cuckoo bird.in the america, people p

11、lay small jokes on their friends and any other people on the first of aprol. they may point down to your shoe and say, “your shoelace is untied.” if you believe them and look down to see, you are an april fool then.关于愚人节英语演讲3Last March, my mother told my father and me that my grandfather would come

12、in April. We were very happy because my grandfather was an interesting old man and he had not visited us since he went to Hong Kong.On April 1 my father and I bought a lot of food from the supermarket and bought a big bunch of flowers home. Then we did some cleaning at home. At night when we were wa

13、iting for my grandfather, the bell rang and in came my mother. She smiled to us and said April fools!关于愚人节英语演讲4The long awaited April was approaching, and a plot was hatched secretly. The wife planned to make a fool of his husband, leaving a note on the table, saying : “ I have had enough days with

14、you, I must leave you!” Then she hid herself under the bed, keeping an eye on what was happening the next minute. The husband jumped with joy at the note. He was noticed making a call: “Honey, good news for both of us! my silly wife has left! ” he added, “it was foolish of me to marry such a stupid

15、girl! Stand where you are, I will throw myself to you. ” She heard the door slammed behind him.The unexpected sight flooded the wife in sadness. Having dragged herself from under the bed, she began to pack up, deciding to break away from the husband. In a flash, a note on the table came into her sig

16、ht, reading:”I have to say you are an idiot! I noticed your foot exposed outside. Kiss you, my baby! ”关于愚人节英语演讲5Its OK To Be Paranoid on April Fools Day .On April First its OK to be suspicious about believing anything, too good to be true! According to a psychologist who has researched past April Fo

17、ols Pranks.“Most of us have fun playing harmless April Fools tricks on each other but some folks inflict cruel and unusual punishment on their friends when their prank gets out of control. says Robert R. Butterworth, Ph.D., who has developed a list of questions that should be asked before planning a

18、n April Fools prank:Could the prank cause undue anxiety when uncovered? . Could it be misinterpreted by others as a serious event? . Does it involve deceiving more than a few people? . Is an element of fear or risk involved? . If you were on the receiving end of the prank, would you be upset?关于愚人节英语演讲2021