Meaning of APRIL FOOLS! - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So it's April Fool's Day today.
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April 1st is the day of the year that we call April Fool's Day.
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And April Fool's Day is a day where you play tricks on people and then when they realize
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it's a trick or even when they don't realize it you yell, "April Fools!"
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One of the tricks that teachers sometimes do on April Fool's Day is when their students
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walk into class they say, "I hope everybody's ready for the test today."
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and then the students get a little bit stressed because no one knew there was a test that
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day.
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It works best if you actually have a stack of fake tests ready to go and then you say,
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"Everyone has 5 minutes to study and we'll start the test."
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And then you let them kind of whisper to each other, "What's the test on?
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I didn't know there was a test."
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And then after most of them are sufficiently stressed you yell, "April Fools!"
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