Learn English Words and Phrases about Truth and Lies

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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As you learn English you'll soon realize that English speaking people sometimes tell lies
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just like people do in your own language.
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So I thought I should do a short English lesson on some of the words and phrases that we use
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to talk about truth and that we use to talk about lies.
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But I also thought we should have a little bit of fun in this video, so I'm going to
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tell you two stories about me and one of those stories is going to be true, and one of them
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is going to be false.
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It's going to be a lie.
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Hey Bob the Canadian here, welcome to this video about truth and lies, but before we
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get started, if this is your first time here don't forget to click the subscribe button
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down there below, it's a red button.
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Give me a thumbs up at some point during this video if it's helping you learn English.
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So truth and lies, let's start with a couple stories about me.
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This will be good English listening practice for you, and again one of the stories will
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be true and one of the stories will not be true.
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So let's get started.
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Story number 1!
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Story number 1.
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When I was a kid, when school was done at the end of the school year my parents would
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take my brother and I to my grandparents' house and we would live with my grandparents
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for one month.
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Usually we would help my grandfather with some chores around the yard, and we also helped
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him with his big garden.
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And we would help my grandmother with some house cleaning tasks.
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So we would help my grandparents inside the house and inside outside the house and we
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would live there for one month.
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My brother loved it, but I did not.
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So one month every summer we did that for a few years, it was for the most part, I think
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enjoyable.
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So that was story number 1, you don't know if it was true or if it was a lie yet, but
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here's story number 2.
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When I was a kid at 9 o'clock at night my sister had to go from the house to the barn
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and she had to feed the cows their last feeding of the day.
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And in our yard there was a large tree.
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And when my sister went to the barn sometimes I would hide behind the tree and when she
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came back from the barn in the dark I would jump out and I would yell, "Boo!", to scare
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her.
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She didn't really like that very much.
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So that was story number 2.
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You need to decide now which of those two stories is true and which is a lie and I will
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tell you in just a couple minutes.
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So let's talk though, let's have a little English lesson here, about the truth and about
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lies in English.
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And let's start with the truth.
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We say, "to tell the truth", so when you are going to talk about something that really
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happened, when you are going to share a story or experience that actually happened and that
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is real, we say that you are "telling the truth."
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With kids we often encourage them to tell the truth because it's nice to know that they're
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becoming honest.
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So that's another word associated with telling the truth is honest.
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An honest person is someone who always tells the truth.
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So we really want people to tell the truth, we want them to be honest, and we also want
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them to always tell stories that are true.
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So when you say something is true it means that it really happened.
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So we have a few words going on there when talking about it.
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We tell the truth.
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When we tell the truth we are telling something that is true.
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And if someone always tells the truth we say that they are honest.
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So there you go.
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A little bit about telling the truth in English.
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But let's look at lies.
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For some reason this is a little more interesting.
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When you tell a lie, that's the phrase that we use, we say that someone is telling a lie,
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we say that someone who tells a lot of lies is dishonest, so the opposite of honest, or
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we say that they are a liar.
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So when you call someone a liar it means that they are often telling lies.
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They are often telling things that aren't true.
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When you tell a lie it means that you made it up.
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So a lie is something that you think about in your head and the English phrase we use
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is that it's something that you made up.
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We can also say this about stories.
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We often say that people make up stories or that a story is made up, which means that
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it isn't true.
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We have some lies in English that we call little white lies.
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So little white lies are just kind of simple lies that you tell that you don't think will
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hurt anybody.
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So you can tell a little white lie every once in a while and maybe get away with it, but
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usually it's nice when people are honest.
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Another word for lie is fib.
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So fib is kind of an older word for lie, but we do still use it.
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So you could say that this person tells a lot of fibs, which would mean that they tell
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a lot of lies.
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And we have a couple of phrases about people lying.
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Sometimes we say that someone was lying through their teeth.
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So they were, basically if they were talking, they were lying, so you could come home from
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an event and say, "I was talking to my friend and he was just lying through his teeth.",
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which means that everything he said was a lie.
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We also sometimes describe people as that they lied straight to my face.
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When people see eye to eye, it's more difficult to tell a lie, so someone who is really bold,
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someone who is a really good liar will sometimes, they will lie straight to your face which
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is a pretty brave and, well maybe not brave, but it's a pretty bold way to tell a lie.
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So we're at the end of the video and it's time for me to tell you which story was true,
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so the stor….
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I hope you didn't guess wrong.
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I feel bad if you think the one story is true because it's a nicer story, but I didn't go
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to my grandparents for a month at the end of the school year every year when I was a
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kid.
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I did, however, and this shows that I was a little bit of a mean kid, but I did sometimes
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hide behind a tree in the yard and I would jump out and scare my sister on her way back
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from the barn.
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I would jump out and yell, "Boo!", that's something that we, that we yell in English
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when we're scaring someone.
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So I apologize to my sister, if she's watching, she'll probably be laughing right now if she's
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watching this video because she hated it when I did that, but it was something that, when
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you're an 11 year old boy, it's something that you think is really, really funny.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.
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That was a small English lesson on telling the truth and telling lies.
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If you haven't subscribed yet please click that button down there.
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