Last March, my mother told my father and me that my grandfather would come in April. We were very happy because my grandfather was an interesting old man and he had not visited us since he went to Hong Kong. 　　On April 1 my father and I bought a lot of food from the supermarket and bought a big bunch of flowers home. Then we did some cleaning at home. At night when we were waiting for my ...[继续阅读]

    To end our special news bulletin, said the voice of the television announcer, we‘re going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria. Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years. Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual. Here you can see ...[继续阅读]

    It‘s OK To Be Paranoid on April Fools‘ Day . 　　 　　"On April First it‘s OK to be suspicious about believing anything, too good to be true!" According to a psychologist who has researched past April Fools‘ Pranks. 　　“Most of us have fun playing harmless April Fools‘ tricks on each other but some folks inflict cruel and unusual punishment on their friends when their p...[继续阅读]

    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 lon...[继续阅读]

    Growing up as a child, April Fools Day was the one holiday I never felt clever enough to take part in. I was creative enough to make a costume for Halloween, or bake a dozen heart-shaped cookies on Valentine‘s Day, but I never had any good ideas for playing pranks. 　　In elementary school, all my classmates would prepare a joke to play on April Fools Day. The joke was usually meant t...[继续阅读]

    From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool‘s Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history. 　　Here are several of the top ten April Fool‘s Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped. 　　S...[继续阅读]

     In the 16th century, people celebrated New Year‘s Day from March 25 to April 1. In the mid—1560s King Charles IX changed it from March 25 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in on April 1, so others called them April Fools. Each country celebrates April Fools‘ Day differently. In France, people call the April Fools “April Fish”. They tape a paper fish to their friends‘ back...[继续阅读]

    April 1st or"April Fools‘ Day" is a day of trickery? in the United States. Young students to older professionals? will use this day as a time to play funny tricks? on their fellow students and colleagues?. While sometimes these tricks get a bit mean, the day is really meant for playing light-hearted jokes on other people. 　　One of the best April Fools‘ jokes I have ever seen was a...[继续阅读]

    "The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." --Mark Twain 　　How do you think April Fools‘ Day originated? Did some joker in biblicaltimes decide to switch the frankincense and the myrrh? Was there a historicepidemic of spring fever-tomfoolery in a tiny Finnish town in the early1800s? Did a New Yorker in 1910 find a cockroach in his coffee c...[继续阅读]

    What is April Fools Day and how did it begin? Well, that is a very good question. The origin of this holiday is rather uncertain. However, the common belief holds that during the reformation of the calendar the date for the New Year was moved from April 1st to January 1st. During that time in history there was no television and no radio so word spread slowly. There were also those who chos...[继续阅读]