English APRIL FOOL'S DAY Words with Alisha

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