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  • Hi Bob the Canadian here.

  • As you learn English you'll soon realize that English speaking people sometimes tell lies

  • just like people do in your own language.

  • So I thought I should do a short English lesson on some of the words and phrases that we use

  • to talk about truth and that we use to talk about lies.

  • But I also thought we should have a little bit of fun in this video, so I'm going to

  • tell you two stories about me and one of those stories is going to be true, and one of them

  • is going to be false.

  • It's going to be a lie.

  • Hey Bob the Canadian here, welcome to this video about truth and lies, but before we

  • get started, if this is your first time here don't forget to click the subscribe button

  • down there below, it's a red button.

  • Give me a thumbs up at some point during this video if it's helping you learn English.

  • So truth and lies, let's start with a couple stories about me.

  • This will be good English listening practice for you, and again one of the stories will

  • be true and one of the stories will not be true.

  • So let's get started.

  • Story number 1!

  • Story number 1.

  • When I was a kid, when school was done at the end of the school year my parents would

  • take my brother and I to my grandparents' house and we would live with my grandparents

  • for one month.

  • Usually we would help my grandfather with some chores around the yard, and we also helped

  • him with his big garden.

  • And we would help my grandmother with some house cleaning tasks.

  • So we would help my grandparents inside the house and inside outside the house and we

  • would live there for one month.

  • My brother loved it, but I did not.

  • So one month every summer we did that for a few years, it was for the most part, I think

  • enjoyable.

  • So that was story number 1, you don't know if it was true or if it was a lie yet, but

  • here's story number 2.

  • When I was a kid at 9 o'clock at night my sister had to go from the house to the barn

  • and she had to feed the cows their last feeding of the day.

  • And in our yard there was a large tree.

  • And when my sister went to the barn sometimes I would hide behind the tree and when she

  • came back from the barn in the dark I would jump out and I would yell, "Boo!", to scare

  • her.

  • She didn't really like that very much.

  • So that was story number 2.

  • You need to decide now which of those two stories is true and which is a lie and I will

  • tell you in just a couple minutes.

  • So let's talk though, let's have a little English lesson here, about the truth and about

  • lies in English.

  • And let's start with the truth.

  • We say, "to tell the truth", so when you are going to talk about something that really

  • happened, when you are going to share a story or experience that actually happened and that

  • is real, we say that you are "telling the truth."

  • With kids we often encourage them to tell the truth because it's nice to know that they're

  • becoming honest.

  • So that's another word associated with telling the truth is honest.

  • An honest person is someone who always tells the truth.

  • So we really want people to tell the truth, we want them to be honest, and we also want

  • them to always tell stories that are true.

  • So when you say something is true it means that it really happened.

  • So we have a few words going on there when talking about it.

  • We tell the truth.

  • When we tell the truth we are telling something that is true.

  • And if someone always tells the truth we say that they are honest.

  • So there you go.

  • A little bit about telling the truth in English.

  • But let's look at lies.

  • For some reason this is a little more interesting.

  • When you tell a lie, that's the phrase that we use, we say that someone is telling a lie,

  • we say that someone who tells a lot of lies is dishonest, so the opposite of honest, or

  • we say that they are a liar.

  • So when you call someone a liar it means that they are often telling lies.

  • They are often telling things that aren't true.

  • When you tell a lie it means that you made it up.

  • So a lie is something that you think about in your head and the English phrase we use

  • is that it's something that you made up.

  • We can also say this about stories.

  • We often say that people make up stories or that a story is made up, which means that

  • it isn't true.

  • We have some lies in English that we call little white lies.

  • So little white lies are just kind of simple lies that you tell that you don't think will

  • hurt anybody.

  • So you can tell a little white lie every once in a while and maybe get away with it, but

  • usually it's nice when people are honest.

  • Another word for lie is fib.

  • So fib is kind of an older word for lie, but we do still use it.

  • So you could say that this person tells a lot of fibs, which would mean that they tell

  • a lot of lies.

  • And we have a couple of phrases about people lying.

  • Sometimes we say that someone was lying through their teeth.

  • So they were, basically if they were talking, they were lying, so you could come home from

  • an event and say, "I was talking to my friend and he was just lying through his teeth.",

  • which means that everything he said was a lie.

  • We also sometimes describe people as that they lied straight to my face.

  • When people see eye to eye, it's more difficult to tell a lie, so someone who is really bold,

  • someone who is a really good liar will sometimes, they will lie straight to your face which

  • is a pretty brave and, well maybe not brave, but it's a pretty bold way to tell a lie.

  • So we're at the end of the video and it's time for me to tell you which story was true,

  • so the stor….

  • I hope you didn't guess wrong.

  • I feel bad if you think the one story is true because it's a nicer story, but I didn't go

  • to my grandparents for a month at the end of the school year every year when I was a

  • kid.

  • I did, however, and this shows that I was a little bit of a mean kid, but I did sometimes

  • hide behind a tree in the yard and I would jump out and scare my sister on her way back

  • from the barn.

  • I would jump out and yell, "Boo!", that's something that we, that we yell in English

  • when we're scaring someone.

  • So I apologize to my sister, if she's watching, she'll probably be laughing right now if she's

  • watching this video because she hated it when I did that, but it was something that, when

  • you're an 11 year old boy, it's something that you think is really, really funny.

  • Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.

  • That was a small English lesson on telling the truth and telling lies.

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  • Leave a comment and I will see you in the next video.

  • Thank you so much for watching!

Hi Bob the Canadian here.

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