 Play Audio  April 1st is an unofficial holiday in the United
States called April Fool's day. In the past, April 1st used to
be celebrated as the New Year. And then in the year, I think,
1592, or something like that, the official New Year was changed
to January 1st and some people never heard of this change so
they continued to celebrate the New Year on the April 1st, but
the people who knew of this change called them fools. A fool in
English is someone who is not smart. We have many words for this
in English: dumb, a dummy, stupid, imbecile, idiot, but you're
all nice people so you'll never need to use those words so you
can forget that. But the people who continued to celebrate the
New Year's on April 1st were called April fools. So a tradition
started, that on April 1st people would try to make, would do
pranks on other people.  A prank is trying to get someone to
believe that something false is true, or playing some kind of
trick on them. One trick for example would be to give someone a
present and as the