British Bitesize Lesson #16: LIE

this is number 16 of 25 bite-sized

lessons which I'm making especially you

because it's Christmas

my name is Anna and today's lesson is

all about the word lie now to lie could

mean to physically lay your body in a

horizontal position so when you go to

bed you lie down in order to go to sleep

we could also use the word lie to mean

something that is not true for example

if i say to you

my name is Margaret that is a lie

because my name is Anna so I was telling

a lie I told you a lie

interestingly we often use the phrase

little white lie, now a little white lie

is a lie that doesn't really do any harm

for example i could say before I started

this video i have three cups of tea i

didn't i only had one cup of tea but by

telling you a little white lie

it didn't do any harm and people usually

tell little white lies in order to

smooth over a situation or to keep

somebody happy so why don't you tell me

what was the last little white lie that

you told and put it in the comments box

below

we can also use the world lie to mean

position so i could say that Manchester

lies north of Birmingham just meaning that

Manchester is positioned north of

Birmingham or i could say the cardigan

lay on the floor for three days so the

cardigan was placed on the floor for

three days now there are lots of phrases

that use the word lie for example we've

had little white lie

you might also hear let it lie

or let it be would be a similar phrase

but let it lie

Let It Be means to leave it alone for

example if something has been said about

you

that isn't true but it's not a big deal

then your friends might advise you to

just let it lie

don't worry about it leave it alone

don't try to phone people and put the

record straight

just let it lie you might hear lies

in store or lies ahead

this means what is about to happen in

the future so I'm arranging a surprise

birthday party and the birthday boy does

not know what lies ahead for him today

he doesn't know what lies in store for

him but I do, a surprise party you may

hear lies at the heart of... or lies at

the root of... this means the true meaning

so what lies at the heart of the problem

what the true reason for this issue you

could say that Anna's loneliness lies at the

heart of her chocolate addiction i'm so

lonely chocolate makes me feel better

lies in wait normally represents

something sinister so it could be a person

or an animal is hiding waiting to attack

you could say that the mugger lies in

wait for his victim and then he attacks

and mugs his victim if your advised to

lie low

this means to keep a low profile whether

it be at work or in a social situation

just keep yourself to yourself

usually it's because something has blown

up or there's a scandal or something

similar and everybody's got their eyes

on you or you're in trouble of some sort so

you're told to lie low until it's blown

over until the situation has resolved

and then you can be like "hello I'm back" so to

lie low to keep a low profile now my

favorite of the lie phrases is something

that I don't get to do very often and

that is to lie in now to lie in is to

sleep or to relax in bed in the morning

without having to set an alarm or

having a certain time when you have to

get up so usually at the weekend when

you don't have to go to work

you'll turn off your alarm the night

before and you'll sleep until you

naturally wake and then you might just

snooze for a bit longer you have a lie-in

but don't disturb me i'm having a lie-in

thank you i never have a lie in too busy

making video right well i hope you found

that helpful don't forget there are 25

videos in this bite-sized series please

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to know what your little white lies are

about okay until tomorrow take care and

goodbye