【愚人节】愚人节英语作文范文(二篇)

愚人节英语作文范文（二篇）

【篇一】

1st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by someone. It’s

April fool’s 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 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 fool’s 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 piece of white thread through it, so that people try to pull it off.

You could change the time on someone’s alarm clock so that they’re 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 a few people. But there’s also a tradition of large

In particular, 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. It’s entertaining to try to guess which stories are true and which are

fake. In the April Fool’s stories, they often include a clue to the fact that it’s a joke.

For example the name of an ‘expert’ quoted in the article might be a

n anagram of

‘April Fool’.

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