100: Telling Lies

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Idioms, Proverbs and Expressions:

  1. Cock-and-bull story: An untrue story:
    1. The retired old men were sitting in the park, exchanging cock-and-bull stories.
  2. Honesty is the best policy: You should always be honest and truthful.
    1. In the opening ceremony, the CEO reminded the entire staff that honesty is the best policy.
  3. Hook, line and sinker: To buy or accept an item or idea very easily without analyzing it first – To be deceived:
    1. I was such a dupe. I just swallowed the whole idea as a hook, line and sinker.
  4. White lie: A lie that is harmless and light:
    1. Jack is not a liar. In fact, it was just a white lie.
  5. Be economical with the truth: To lie:
    1. Nobody would have believed me if I had told the truth, so I had to be economical with the truth.

Words and Phrases:

  1. Charlatan: A dishonest person who tells lies about his skills and experience
  2. Hypocrite: A dishonest person whose beliefs and actions are contradictory
  3. Fabricate (V): To invent a story that is untrue
  4. Concoct (V): To fabricate a story that is untrue
  5. Lie detector: A machine that is used to detect or spot lies

Questions about the Video File:

  1. What is the difference between lie spotting and truth seeking?
  2. What specific change happened to the lecturer and her interaction with others after publishing her book?
  3. What are lie-spotters armed with?
  4. What is the meaning of ‘proposition’?
  5. How do you re-interpret this phrase: “A lie is a cooperative act”?
  6. When do lies have dramatic costs for us?
  7. Who is a con man?
  8. True or False: We tell lies to the people we know less frequently than those whom we don’t know. 
  9. What do people try to conceal by telling lies?
  10. What is a white lie?
  11. True or False: Introverted people tell more lies in comparison to extroverted people.
Level: 
B1 (Intermediate)
B2 (Upper-intermediate)
Tags: 
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There are 43 Comments

Submitted by Hossein-Hariri on Sat, 2016/05/21 - 13:50

Dear students, please note that you MUST create a question about this session as I have done. Your question is your ticket to the session. Write your questions in the form of comments here.

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/29 - 10:20

Noble lies is other name of white lies.

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/29 - 10:41

Include:

1) Maintain security of the country

2) Peace between individuals, for example the relationship between husband and wife

3) Save the lives of innocent people

and ...

Of course, I have to say that these lies are not sworn. And if they are exposed not have much impact.

Submitted by Hossein-Hariri on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 16:24

This question is not going to be responded to in the class as it may arouse some problems. Please do NOT make religion-based questions.

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 18:03

But I can bring some source for this.
We also saw an example about this on movies.
Surely you have seen "Prophet Yousof" movie.

Submitted by Fateme on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 18:31

The point is that we are supposed to not talk of the realms of religion and politics.

Submitted by Hossein-Hariri on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 18:56

That's right.

NO RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS ARE ALLOWED AS WE ARE RECORDING THE SESSIONS.

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 19:42

Ok!
So this question is without numbering to be discussed in class.
Ok?

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 19:21

I didn't see video file because it is difficult for me that i understand it.
If it is what I know;
Perhaps it be harmless but isn't unimportant!
I see it has a big result and is necessary to say.

Submitted by Hossein-Hariri on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 16:15

Please note that we are not going to talk about 'white lies'. The topic is 'telling lies' as you can see in the title of this course.

I said that because all of your questions are related to white lies.

Submitted by Hossein-Hariri on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 16:15

Dear students,

Please put a number before your questions so that we could refer to them more easily in the class.

Thanks.

Submitted by Fateme on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 18:24

6. According to researches men lie more than women. What do you think of this finding? 

7. How do we can break the habit of lying?

 

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/29 - 10:57

If repeated; with the publication of this ploy,as before people are not valued for speak of this person that said that white lies.

So the habit will leave spontaneous!

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/29 - 11:17

men or women?

this question has a general aspect.

Social and employment conditions and policies that govern a society can be effective in lying. We can't say with sure which more lie? men or women?

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/22 - 21:45

Dear Fatemeh;
I think that the questions should be sent separately until we can send our answers to reply this.

Submitted by Hossein-Hariri on Mon, 2016/05/23 - 17:36

That's right dear Gilnar.

Let's create an independent entry for each question to be able to refer to them more easily.

Submitted by fatemeh2 on Tue, 2016/05/24 - 15:20

12. How can parents help their children in avoidance of telling lies? Or what should parents do to have honest children who hate telling lies?

Submitted by fatemeh2 on Tue, 2016/05/24 - 15:30

13. Consider a situation that a person is addicted and doesn't mind telling lies. How can we help him/her be aware of the disadvantages of telling lies?

Submitted by Gilnar on Sun, 2016/05/29 - 11:39

Sometimes it can be doing.

For example, the company has sold product another company and the certificate is not available. so the company employee must change product specifications on the certificate and give the customer. To maintain the company's validation.

Submitted by Farshad-Abbasi on Tue, 2016/05/24 - 20:59

15.

  1. People often rationalize their own dishonesty by saying, "That’s the way the world is, so why should I be different?" What do you think of this reasoning?

Submitted by Farshad-Abbasi on Tue, 2016/05/24 - 20:59

15.

  1. People often rationalize their own dishonesty by saying, "That’s the way the world is, so why should I be different?" What do you think of this reasoning?

Submitted by saatmir on Sat, 2016/05/28 - 19:19

I think lying destroys relationships.If you’ve ever been lied to , you know how difficult it can be to ever trust that person again.

 

Submitted by saatmir on Sat, 2016/05/28 - 19:24

When you lie, even if you think others will never find out, you will almost certainly create a barrier of hurt in your relationship.

Submitted by saatmir on Sat, 2016/05/28 - 19:28

Most people put up with things because of fear. They are afraid of looking bad, afraid of being judged negatively by others, afraid of rocking the boat, causing trouble, making enemies.

Submitted by Jupiter on Sun, 2016/06/05 - 06:46

For more than 2 milleniums philosophers have been discussing about this challenging problem. I thing " harmless lies" can bring us, i mean have the potential, to ethical relativism.. you now already the devastating consequence of this doctrine..

 

Submitted by Jupiter on Sat, 2016/05/28 - 19:54

I think the problem is this...we can't draw a lucid demarcation between harmless lie and non harmless one. What do you think? Can we have such a boundary?

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