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58 Rights and wrongs
5B
Grammar and listening
Natural born liars
1
SPEAKING
Work in pairs. Read the facts about lying. Which facts surprise you and why?
Which one is not true?
2
1.20
Listen to three teenagers talking about lies. Match statements 1–6 to
Charlie (C), Sean (S) and Elly (E).
1
If my best friend asks me if I like her new haircut tomorrow, I’ll say yes.
2
If they didn’t ask so many questions, I wouldn’t tell so many lies.
3
If he ever found out, he’d be really furious.
4
If I said what I really thought, they might get upset.
5
If you tell the truth all the time, you’ll offend people.
6
Unless she learns that lying is wrong, she might become a compulsive liar.
3
1.20
Listen again. What are Charlie’s, Sean’s and Elly’s opinions on telling lies?
First and second conditionals
4
Study sentences 1–6 in exercise 2 and decide which ones talk about situations likely to
happen and which ones talk about situations unlikely to happen. Then answer the questions.
1
Which conditional talks about a real or very likely situation in the present or the future?
2
Which conditional talks about an imaginary or unlikely situation in the present or the future?
3
What tenses do we use to form each conditional?
4
What does
unless
mean in sentence 6? How can you rephrase this sentence using
if
?
Reference and practice 5.1
Workbook page 112
5
Complete the questions with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Then work in pairs
and answer the questions.
1
If you
(realize) your friend was shoplifting, would you tell anyone?
2
What would you do if you
(see) some people vandalizing your local park?
3
If you
(go out) this evening, what time will you come home?
4
What
(your parents / do) if you come home later than you should?
5
If someone
(ask) your friends if you were an honest person, what might
they say?
6
What
(you / do) if it rains a lot this weekend?
Lie, lie, lie!
• 98
% of teens say they lie to their
parents.
•
96% of teens say that lying is
wrong.
•
Younger teens are better at lying
than older ones.
•
40% of parents believe it is normal
to sometimes lie to their children.
•
65% of people think it’s OK to lie
in order not to hurt someone’s
feelings.
•
Most people lie three times in
ten minutes of conversation.
•
Men and women lie the same
amount, but about different things.
•
We lie most frequently to the
people we love.