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Kate: Hello, I’m Kate Colin and this is 6 minute English. Today I'm joined again by
Jackie Dalton. Hi Jackie.
Jackie: Hi Kate
Kate: As you may know, yesterday, April 1st was April Fool's Day!
Jackie: Well, to be honest, I completely forgot …..until I was caught out that is…
Kate: Oh no – what happened?
Jackie: Well, my flatmate changed my clock so I ended up getting up a whole hour
earlier than I needed to. I only realised just before I was about to leave the
house and I heard the time on the radio. I felt quite silly!
Kate: Oh dear, but at least you were nice and early for work. I bet you'd have
preferred an extra hour in bed though. Well April Fool's Day is the one day of
the year when we are all allowed to have some fun and play a few jokes on our
friends and colleagues. Newspapers, radio stations and even large companies
have their share of fun as well. But before we go any further, here' s my
question for this week:
In the UK on April Fool's Day, we are traditionally allowed to play jokes on
people until what time. Is it:
a) midnight
b) midday
c) 4 o'clock
Jackie: answer
Kate: OK, we'll see if you answered correctly at the end of the programme. Next
we're going to hear from our colleague Carrie as she tells us what usually
happens on April Fool's Day. See if you can hear how she describes the jokes
that are played on people?
Carrie
It's usually people playing practical jokes on other people. So if somebody makes somebody
else look rather silly, by telling them something that isn't true, by playing a practical joke
on them.
Jackie: She called the jokes 'practical jokes' and these are when you play a trick on
someone or do something to make them look silly. So the joke my flatmate played
on me was an excellent example of a 'practical joke'. I'll get her back next year
though!
Kate: Another expression which has a similar meaning to 'practical joke' is 'hoax'. A
hoax is when people are deceived into thinking something false and it's usually on
a larger scale than a practical joke, involving many people. A 'media hoax' is
when the people in charge of the media (TV, radio or newspapers and online) play
a trick on their audience. Listen to what Carrie says about 'hoaxes'. What does
she think is the problem with 'media hoaxes'?
Carrie
The media have a lot of hoaxes, so you can pick up a newspaper on April Fool's Day and
there'll be a story in it that you know is a media hoax and it's clearly not true. Or not as the
case may be! I think the trouble is now that you pick up a newspaper on 1st April and you look
through and try and find the spoof story and quite often you'll pick something that maybe
isn't a spoof story at all, it really is a genuine story.
Jackie: Carrie says that the trouble with 'media hoaxes' is that now we all expect that's
there's going to be one and often we'll see a story and we think it's a hoax when
actually it's true.
Kate: We also heard the expression 'spoof story'. What does this mean?
Jackie: A 'spoof story' is a kind of practical joke or hoax and it's a story that's not true,
presented in a style that makes it looks like as though it's really true. So an
example of a spoof story would be a newspaper article saying that Elvis Presley
has been seen walking down the streets of London, when in fact he's been dead for
many years.
Kate: Yes, and it can be easy to be 'taken in' by these kind of stories. 'Taken in by' in
a phrasal verb we use when we believe something that isn't true.
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