Duygu ALDEMİR

080565006

CLASS/DATE : 302- 18.10.2010

LEVEL OF THE LEARNERS : INTERMEDIATE
AGE OF THE LEARNERS : 15-22
LENGTH OF THE LESSON : 20 MINUTES
AIM OF THE LESSON : To improve the students’ reading skills
MATERIALS : Pictures, handouts, videos, flashcards and music

Stage Aims of the stage Course Description Materials Grouping Timing

Pre-reading *to introduce the The teacher talks Some pictures Whole 2’
topic about the coming date, about the coming class,
*to attract the ss’ which is April 1st and date on the board individual
attention wants the ss think on a slideshow
*to make the ss about their own April
brainstorm 1st experiences in a
minute.
Pre-reading *to arouse their The teacher shows Some pictures of Pair work 2’
curiosity about the some pictures and the jokes made on
topic wants the ss guess April 1st
*to make them ‘’what happens, what
talk about the the joke could be
topic, share their there’’ by working
ideas and feel with their partners.
important
Pre-reading *to set the stage The teacher makes the Videos and Whole 2’
for the text which ss watch some videos handouts class
will be read by about April 1st and
connecting some passes to read the text
videos by asking if they learn
*to make the ss more about it.
more interested in
the text
While- *to make the ss get The teacher gives the Handouts, the texts Whole 4,5’
reading the general idea text and wants them to class and
(1st reading) about the topic read it and write the group
*to make the ss jokes’ names and their work
write the jokes’ dates by working
names and their groups.
dates by working
in groups
While- *to make the ss The teacher asks one Flashcards on Individual 2’
reading move and actively volunteer from each which the jokes’ but in the
participate in the group, wants them get names and their name of a
lesson a date and match it dates written and group.
with the joke’s name handouts, the texts
on the board.
While- *to make the ss The teacher wants the Handouts, the text Individual 4,5’
reading read the text in ss to read the text once
(2nd reading) detail and get the more and answer the
specific questions below the
information from text.
the text
*to check whether
they understand
the text

While- *to make their The teacher asks them Handouts, the text Individual 3’
reading creativity active to guess what the and whole
*to make them words written in bold class
guess the words could mean in the text
written in bold and tries to give the
*to check whether right meanings of
they have them and clarify the
understood the text words in the ss’ minds.
Post-reading *to improve their The teacher wants Individual
writing skills by them to talk to people
making them use around them, learn
their creativity and their April 1st
practice the experiences, and
information given imagine their best
in the text April Fool Joke ever
*to make them by benefiting from
interact with their own knowledge
people around and people’s
them experiences.
 APRIL FOOL
Most people know that April 1st is called April Fool’s Day because people often play
practical jokes on each other on this day. However it’s not just friends and family you have
to beware of- big companies, newspapers and TV stations also do their best to fool the
public.
In 1998 Burger King published an ad in USA Today announcing a new item for their
menu- the left-handed Whopper. This was the same as a normal Whopper, apart from one
thing- the burger itself was rotated 180̊ so that the ketchup would drip out of the right side
of the burger instead of coming out of the left. The ad fooled thousands of people, despite
being published on April Fool’s Day. And 2002, the British supermarket conglomerate, Tesco,
advertised a ‘’whistling carrot’’. The ad explained that the carrot had been genetically
engineered to grow with air holes down the side so that it would start whistling when it was
fully cooked.
These two adverts are relatively recent; whereas Britain’s most famous April Fool
hoax is much older. In 1957, the BBC documentary series Panorama showed Swiss farm
workers pulling spaghetti from ‘’Spaghetti tree’’. The programme told viewers that the
farmers were enjoying an excellent spaghetti harvest due to a very mild winter. As spaghetti
wasn’t very common in the UK at that time,, many people believed the report. Hundreds of
viewers even phoned up to ask where they could buy their own spaghetti trees.
Another famous April Fool’s Day joke, this time from 1962, comes from Sweden. It
was announced on the news that it had become possible to watch ‘’color programmes’’ on black
and white TVs because of some new technology the TV station had invented. People were
told to pull a nylon stocking over the screen so they would be able to watch the programmes
in color. Since almost everyone in Sweden had a black and white TV in those days, hundreds
of thousands of people tried to do this, even though the news was broadcast on the morning
of April 1st.
You might think that people were more easily fooled back in those days. Nevertheless,
you should be careful next April 1st- this time April Fool might be you!

--- After reading the text carefully, answer the questions below.

1) D you eat a hamburger by using one of your hands or you use both hands to grasp
and eat it?

2) Do you know how the spaghetti is made?

3) Was there colored TV in 1960s?