九级Unit12 SectionB5(2a-2e).pptVIP

5. He asked her to marry him. 他向她求婚。 marry sb. 意为“嫁/娶某人”。 e.g. John is going to marry Jane. 约翰要和简结婚了。 get married to sb. 意为“嫁/娶某人;与某人结婚”，为短暂性词组。 be married to sb. 意为“嫁/娶某人；与某人结婚”，是延续性词组。 例： She married John last year. = She got married to John last year. = She has been married to John for one year. 她去年嫁给了John。 * 2a Have you ever played jokes on others, especially on Aril Fool’s Day? Have you ever been fooled by others? Tell your story to your partner. put up interesting paper on one’s back put different materials into the Cola put the toothpaste on one’s biscuits What can you see in the picture? 2.What does the passage may talk about? An UFO. It may talk about the little trick on the April Fool’s Day. Perhaps the trick is about the UFO. Look at the picture and questions in 2b. Then answer the questions below. Before you read 1 USING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE Carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph can activate your own knowledge of the topic and help you guess what the whole text is about. 2b While you read 2 Read the passage quickly. Then match each paragraph with the main idea. Reading tips April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in di?erent countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other. One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,