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1、愚人节的英语演讲学生 愚人节的英语演讲1To end our special news bulletin, said the voice of the television announcer, were going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria. Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years. Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they
2、 have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual. Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks. The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this years
3、crop before the September rains. On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself. She has been helping her husband for thirty years now. Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed. This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the
4、 famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition! Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991. And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April lst. Were now going back to the studio.愚人节的英语演讲21st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by s
5、omeone. 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 is connected with the change in the calendar in the 16th century, which meant that 1st April wa
6、s 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 that you can play on your friends. For example, you could wear a black sweater and pull a piec
7、e 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 pick it up.All these are small-scale practical jokes which you might play on one other person or
8、 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, the media often try to make people believe something which is not true. Newspapers publish som
9、e 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 the fact that its a joke. For example the name of an expert quoted in the article might be an
10、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 - water which contained minus calories!And one of the most famous hoaxes ever was broadcast by the
11、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 taken in and wrote to the BBC asking how to grow their own spaghetti.愚人节的英语演讲3April Fools Day
12、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 mid1560s King Charles IX changed it from March 25 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in
13、 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 fool them. When he or she finds this , they shout “April Fish!”In England, people play jokes only
14、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 play small jokes on their friends and any other people on the first of Aprol. They may point dow
15、n to your shoe and say, “ Your shoelace is untied.” If you believe them and look down to see, you are an April Fool then.愚人节的英语演讲4In western countries, the annual April 1st fools Day means a person can play a variety of tricks and dont have to bear the consequences. Called a fools Day joke your tric
16、k will be forgive.This is a distinction between soft hearted and hard hearted day, soft hearted person who made that they have been cheated, but look very foolish. A woman set a few years to save her from the other women get a business card, and no notice of their intention to obtain a number of fri
17、ends there, and then with a lot of this kind of business card to go fools day party. She brazenly people flirt, suggesting that spend the night with her would be not fair of pleasure, and gave each one requires the men meet again a another woman card.Undoubtedly, during this holiday, magic goods sto
18、res will be refurbished to provide a lot of tricks. For example, sit up will happen harsh noise cushion; row will be fireworks after the match; and for those who want to fit a ball at the other faces of the people ready sarcoma, fake nose, glasses, beard and putty.愚人节的英语演讲5Its OK To Be Paranoid on A
19、pril 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 Fools Pranks.“Most of us have fun playing harmless April Fools tricks on each other but some folks inflict cruel and unusual punishment on t
20、heir 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 an 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?愚人节的英语演讲学生
