British English Holidays April Fools Day
hi everyone I’m Gina the first of April
is April Fool’s Day a day to try and
fool your friends with jokes and a day
to have some light-hearted fun in this
lesson you’re going to learn about April
Fool’s Day in the UK there was a famous
April Fool’s story about penguins
published by the BBC what do you think
the story was we’ll show you the answer
at the end of this video
it has commonly thought that the reason
why the 1st of April is a day for tricks
is due to the changing of the calendar
currently we use the Gregorian calendar
and in new year starts on the 1st of
January
however previously the Julian calendar
was used and in this calendar a new year
starters on the 1st of April when a
change was made those who still
celebrated on the first of April were
mocked and called fools on the 1st of
April we play tricks on others and tried
to deceive the more gullible amongst our
friends the more outlandish these tricks
and deceptions are the better
however this custom should only last
until midday after midday April Fool’s
Day is over and tricksters shouldn’t
play any more tricks April Fool’s Day
isn’t just an event held between friends
every year major multinational
corporations celebrities and media
outlets also try to play tricks on the
public every year most major national
newspapers will carry a story or two and
the 1st of April that is a joke and the
game becomes trying to spot it the group
Hollander was first conceived in 1582 by
Pope Gregory the 13th but was not
adopted by the UK until 1752 delaying
the change resulted in eleven days being
skipped so that the calendar could run
correctly and now I’ll give you the
answer to the earlier quiz there was a
famous April Fool’s story about penguins
published by the BBC what do you think
the story was the BBC claimed that their
cameras in the Antarctic had captured
footage of flying penguins it was
claimed these penguins would migrate to
South Africa every summer how was this
lesson did you learn something
interesting do you have a day for
fooling in your country leave us a
comment at English class 101.com and
we’ll see you in the next lesson