AEE 294: Don't Be a Fool! Learn About April Fool's Day with All Ears English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Come back to our blog and have a conversation with us! Go to http://www.allearsenglish.com/294 Get your FREE IELTS Cheat Sheet: http://www.allearsenglish.com/evaluation April Fool’s Day is coming up later this week. Are you ready for it? How do you celebrate April Fool’s Day in your culture? Today you’ll learn what many Americans do on April Fool’s Day and you’ll get a few new vocabulary words for this day. It’s common to play jokes on friends and colleagues at work or at college in the United States. It’s especially common in colleges because students live together with their friends in dormitories. Vocabulary for April Fool’s Day: Gullible: To trust people and believe things that people say, even if those things are not true. Practical Joke: A joke that you play on someone (not a spoken joke). You act out this kind of joke. A prank: A practical joke, a joke that is acted out Gag gift: A silly gift that is not meant to be serious but is meant to be a joke What should you do if someone plays a joke on you? Don’t take it too seriously. Laugh at it. Have a good time. Leave a message in the comments. How do you celebrate April Fool’s Day? Let us know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Eears English podcast episode 294.
0:03.4	Don't be a fool.
0:04.8	Learn about April Fool's Day with All-Eers English.
0:07.8	Welcome to the All-Eears English podcast
0:12.4	where you'll finally get real native English conversation and
0:17.0	fluency for business and life.
0:20.4	We believe in connection, not perfectionion when it comes to learning English.
0:25.8	Now here are your hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you from Boston and New York City,
0:38.0	USA.
0:40.0	Hey Lindsay how are you? I'm okay. What's up Michelle? Yeah, I need to talk to you about something kind of big. Yeah, what's up? What's happening? Yeah, unfortunately I'm actually going to have to leave all
0:54.9	years English. So what? Are you kidding me? Why? Yeah, I'm sorry. I mean, I just got another job and it's just like I don't know it's like a better deal so
1:03.7	what job could be better than all yours English.
1:06.2	Oh I Lindsay I really don't want to talk about that right now it's just better
1:09.8	okay? That's crazy what can I do to get you to stay with us here?
1:13.0	Listen, I don't think there's anything you can do.
1:15.0	Oh my God, no, Michelle, you're killing me.
1:18.0	Tell me I'm joking.
1:19.0	April Fools! April Fools!
1:21.0	April Fools!
1:22.0	So Michelle is not leaving all yours English, thank God, and today you'll learn how Americans
1:27.4	celebrate April Fool's Day and what you can do to prepare for the big day.
1:33.0	Hey Michelle, what's up?
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