45150 april fools day

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England  January 1st  April  Philadelphia calendar  fools prank  noon
1. Fill in the blanks:
April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day is one day of the year when you're allowed to
mercilessly __________ your friends, family and co-workers. How exactly did this day
come about? We don’t actually know for sure what started the celebration of April
Fools’ Day. Evidences can be found as early as 1500 but these accounts are
infrequent and not very detailed.
The most popular theory is that it began around 1582 in France during the
reformation of the ____________. Before France adopted the Gregorian calendar, they
celebrated the New Year for eight days, beginning on March 25 th and ending on April
1st. When they switched the calendar systems, the 8 th day moved from April 1st to
____________________________.
Because they didn't have internet, phones, social media and a mail system, a lot of
people didn't hear about this change until years later. Those who did not hear about
the change continued to celebrate New Year in _________. Others refused to
celebrate it out to rebellion. Those that have been informed of the change and
adjusted their calendars begin to make fun of these ___________ who were informed
or rebellious. This harassment evolved into a tradition of playing pranks on the first
day of April and then spread to other countries.
However April Fools’ Day was already established in ________, which did not change
calendar system until 1752. Also people were already engaged in pranks and lightheartedness around this time of year, long before the French switched their
calendar systems, such as in the case of the ancient Roman Festival of Hilaria.
Modern celebrations of April Fools’ Day have slightly different traditions depending
on the country you are in, but they all have the similar theme of pranking and
humiliating individuals. In France they try to tape an image of a fish to your back
without you noticing it and in Portugal they throw flour to you. In England, you’re
only supposed to put jokes until _________ and if you put a joke after noon, you’re
called an “April fool”. In the US as in Britain, even popular media outlets and

companies have been known to get involved in the fun.
In 1996 Taco Bell announced that it had purchased the liberty bell from the city of
________________ and that it was going to rename it as the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1192
NPR claimed that Richard Nixon would be running again for president. The British
publication, The Guardian, famously pranked the public in 1977, when they said
that a semicolon-shaped island in the Indian Ocean had been discovered. This hoax
is credited for launching the trend of April Fools’ Day pranks by British tabloids.

a fool

a hoax

gullible

practical joke

ANSWER KEY

prank

prank - calendar – January 1st - April – fools – England – noon - Philadelphia

prankster


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