Learn English words about April Fool's Day in the US
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| April fool’s Day. That’s recording, isn’t it?! Welcome back to weekly words. My name is Alisha and today we are going to talk about a holiday. So let’s get started with April fool’s Day. |
| April fool’s Day is the 1st of April every year and on this particular holiday, you are expected to play jokes and pranks on your friend. April fool’s Day is celebrated on the 1st of April every year and it is a special holiday that is specifically for playing pranks. Usually these pranks are supposed to be harmless or not actually supposed to hurt anybody. I really hate April fool’s Day because I can’t ever tell when someone is telling a lie or not on this day. |
| First word here is to fool, to fool as a verb is a word that means to trick somebody or to deceive somebody. That’s the whole premise of this holiday, that’s the whole point of this holiday is to fool your friends and to fool your family members. In a sentence, I fooled my mother on April fool’s Day this year. I told her that I was pregnant, I am not. I fooled my mom on April fool’s Day this year. I told her that I had been expelled from school for punching someone. |
| All right, the next word is practical joke. A practical joke, it’s a specific type of joke or a specific type of prank which is just a trick that you play on your friends and family a harmless trick just to make them laugh or just to confuse them for a moment. So let’s see. In an example sentence, one of my favorite practical jokes is covering a doorway with saran wrap so that when someone walks through it, they get caught in the saran wrap and are a little confused for a second. I think that’s hilarious. |
| The next one is prankster. Prankster is a noun, prankster refers to anybody not just on this holiday but anybody who likes to play pranks on somebody else. So maybe you have a friend who is a prankster who likes to do practical jokes or who likes to just trick people from time to time. One of my friends is a real prankster. He is hilarious. |
| The next one is plastic wrap. I’ve just talked about plastic wrap. Plastic wrap also called saran wrap. Saran wrap is a brand, it’s synonymous with the product generic brand name. That was a video we did a while ago. You can look it out. Plastic wrap is a clear – clear film that you usually use to cover food in your refrigerator or maybe if you put something in the Microwave but it is also commonly used on April fool’s Day to play pranks on friends. So like I’ve just described putting it over a door because you can’t see it really. It’s maybe it’s hard to see very quickly and very clearly. So people can walk into it or I’ve heard of even like really cruelly some people covering like toilet seats with Saran wrap. In a sentence, try using plastic wrap to trick your friends, try using plastic wrap to trick your friends on April fool’s Day this year. |
| All right, that is the end of April fool’s Day vocabulary words. So on April fool’s Day this year, on April 1st, you can try to play a few practical jokes on your friends. Tell us about your favorite practical jokes or tell us if you played some practical jokes on your friends or family members in the past. Leave us a comment down below so you can check it out. Thanks again for joining us this week and we will see you again next time, bye. Hold on, mom April! |
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