Google has cancelled all April Fool’s Jokes for this year. WebEnglish.se totally agrees with the recommendation not to come up with any corona-related pranks, due to all the misinformation that is already around. The WebEnglish.se theme page about April Fool’s Day is more about the culture, history and even ethics about the holiday and not about any nasty pranks.
April 2nd is Children’s Book Day, which might give you a new reason to entice your students to read and/or listen to more children’s books (4-6). (Audiobooks 2-3, Audiobooks 7-9)
The main holiday in April is Easter. WebEnglish.se Easter theme page for the elementary levels has been revamped to follow the same template, according to skills, as other theme pages. Year 6 overlaps in both Easter 1-6 and Easter 6-9 to make it easier for teachers working in different school systems only to work with one page.
Earth Day is on the 22nd of April. Since last year, WebEnglish.se has added a new theme, Climate Crisis, and a new level, Environment B1, to the (updated) lesson plans and materials of other environmental topics: Environment EZ (5-7) and Environment 8-9. For teachers who wish more ideas to their environmental studies WebEnglish.se recommends following a new(ish) Facebook page called ELT Footprint.
The Literary World is celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday on April 23rd, which presumably was also the day he died in 1616. For Shakespeare studies, you can choose between three pages; Shakespeare EZ (6-7), Shakespeare’s Life (8-9) and Shakespeare’s Work (8-9).