初中英语山东版九年级--Unit 6-B

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 2

[00:16.86]in the chart.

[00:19.03](Some words can go in more than one column 1.)

[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 3       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 4 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 5 revealed 6

[03:53.53]that the story was a hoax 7,

[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 8 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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