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BBC AprilFool Activities

The document is a listening comprehension exercise from a BBC Learning English podcast about April Fool's Day. It provides vocabulary related to practical jokes and asks questions to test understanding of how April Fool's Day is celebrated in the UK and examples of media hoaxes and spoof stories that people sometimes encounter on April 1st.

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BBC AprilFool Activities

The document is a listening comprehension exercise from a BBC Learning English podcast about April Fool's Day. It provides vocabulary related to practical jokes and asks questions to test understanding of how April Fool's Day is celebrated in the UK and examples of media hoaxes and spoof stories that people sometimes encounter on April 1st.

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BBC LEARNING ENGLISH

6 MINUTE ENGLISH: APRIL FOOL’S DAY

VOCABULARY
Be caught out: be taken unaware or by surprise.
Deceive: give a false impression or cause to accept as true what is false.
Large scale: large number of people or things.
Bumper crop: cosecha extraordinaria
Come across: find, discover

LISTENING COMPREHENSION
A. EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF THE FOLLOWING EXPRESSIONS:
practical jokes

media hoax

spoof story

gullible person

prankster

B. ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS.


1. What happened to Jackie on April Fool’s Day?

2. What happens on April Fool’s Day? Until what time are people in the UK allowed to
play jokes that day?

3. According to Carrie, what is the problem of picking up a newspaper on April 1st?

4. Can you give an example of a spoof story?

5. What is the most famous media hoax?

6. Why have the BBC been quite naughty pranksters in the past?

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