愚人節(jié)英語作文范文（二篇）

1、第 PAGE4 頁 共 NUMPAGES4 頁愚人節(jié)英語作文范文（二篇）【篇一】1st 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 o

2、ne explanation is 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 o

3、f simple tricks that you can play on your friends. For exle, 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 peo

4、ple try to pick 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 panies attempting to fool a lot of people. For exle a burger restaurant once claimed that they were introducing a left-handed burger!In parti

5、cular, 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 c

6、lue to the fact that its a joke. For exle the name of an expert ed 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.【篇二】In the 16th 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 on April 1, so others called them April F

9、ools.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 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 fi