English Speaking Club-Osvita, Meeting #452 " April Fools’ Day"
Time: April 4, 18:30 - 20:00
Place: Voskeresenska St. 23, Department of Documents in Foreign Languages, Dnipro Central Municipal Library
- What are some tricks people play on April Fools’ Day?
- What is the background of this day? Do you have the same tradition in your country?
- Do you play tricks on April 1st?
- What sort of tricks do you play?
- Have you ever tried fooling your family on April Fools' Day?
- Do you always look forward to April Fools' Day?
- Have you ever been tricked on April 1st?
- Are you mad if someone plays tricks on you?
- Do you know anyone who got married on April Fools' Day?
- Did someone play a trick on you? What was it?
- Have you ever been fooled on April Fools' Day? If yes, how did you feel then?
- How would you feel if you were being fooled by your dearest friends?
- What types of pranks are appropriate for April Fools' Day?
- Tell about the funniest prank you've ever experienced.
- Brainstorm a list of harmless pranks and share them with others.
- While many pranks are harmless, some are harmful. Give an example of a harmful prank.
- Are harmful pranks ever appropriate? Why or why not?
- Have you ever been the victim of a harmful prank? If so, tell about the experience. How did it make you feel? How did you react?
- How does a prank or trick differ from a hoax?
- Have you ever fallen for a hoax? If so, tell about the experience.
- Have you ever tried to convince someone else that something was true when it really wasn't? Describe the experience.
- Have you ever heard of these April Fools' Day classics?
- In 1965, the BBC TV announced the creation of "smellovision." Aromas from the TV studio would be broadcast to TV sets across the nation.
- In 1980, the BBC said that Big Ben would go digital. People angrily complained about changing the world-renown English landmark. The BBC service in Japanese even announced that the hands would be sold to the first four people to call the station.
- Again, the BBC announced that an astronomical event would precisely align Pluto and Jupiter. The result would lesson the Earth's gravity. If anyone jumped in the air at exactly 9:47 a.m. on April 1st, they would feel a strange, floating feeling. The BBC received hundreds of phone calls. One woman even said that she and her eleven friends had floated around the room!
- And last, in 1998, Burger King in America advertised a "left handed Whopper" hamburger. It had been designed for left-handed customers, and all the ingredients were rotated 180 degrees. Thousands of people rushed to the restaurant to try the new sandwich, and many more ordered the original "right-handed" version.
- Is fan death a hoax? Why? (Fan death is a well-known superstition in Korean culture, where it is thought that running an electric fan in a closed room with unopened or no windows will prove fatal. Despite no concrete evidence to support the concept, belief in fan death persists to this day in Korea).
- A gullible person believes things very easily. Do you consider yourself to be gullible? Why or why not?
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