01 April 2011

April Fools' Day


Listen to this recording
and give short answers to the following questions:
1 How old is this holiday?
2 What did ancient nations celebrate on this day?
3 Which nation started to celebrate New Year on January 1st?
4 What happened to those people who didn't accept this change?
5 Which TV channel enjoys playing tricks on the viewers?
6 Which famous English landmark was declared to undergo significant changes?
7 What will happen - according to a TV channel - if you jump in the air at 9.47 this day?
8 What was the biggest success at Burger King's on this day in 1998?
Here are some fool quotes:

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time." (Abraham Lincoln)
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." (Bruce Willis)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise knows himself to be a fool." (Shakespeare)

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