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22 February 2017
INTERMEDIATE Trustworthiness
Don’t judge a book by its cover NiE Activity 1
WHY do people lie? Some tell white lies – small untruths – to avoid upsetting others or to make life “easier”. Studies have found that children begin to tell lies at about age three but honesty increases as people get older. For the majority of people, honesty is the best policy!
Critical thinking l Identify
Problem solving l Question l Recreate
l Reason
Creative thinking
l Present
Communicating l Aural
l Connect
l Written
Collaborating l Listen
l Contribute respectfully
What does honesty look like? Is it safe to simply judge a person by the way he appears? Scan The Star for two faces: one of a person you think is honest and another of a person you think is dishonest. Paste them below. Write three reasons for your choices:
A person who looks honest
A person who looks dishonest
In a 2016 study by the University of British Columbia in Canada, researchers found some amazing facts about how people think if someone is trustworthy. Two studies showed that people often make judgements based solely on the face. We do so as a “survival” instinct because we need to form an impression of the person. For example, a person who has a rounder face is perceived as more trustworthy than someone who has a thinner face. Think about this: l What is the danger of judging someone by his looks? l Have you heard of stories about con artists? Share some of your
stories as a class. l So how do you decide on an honest and dishonest face? l Would you still continue to judge people by the way they look?
Explain. Share your answers as a class.
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NiE Activity 2 Critical thinking l Identify
l Reason
Creative thinking l Connect
l Invent
Problem solving l Question l Recreate
l Research l Present
Collaborating l Listen l Contribute respectfully
l Compromise l Attain goal
Communicating l Aural l Written
l Oral
You can often find many stories of greed, corruption and dishonesty in the newspapers that may incorporate the use of such phrasal verbs in their headlines. Gather into groups of four (with each group being assigned to one phrasal verb). Scan The Star for stories about these negative values. Write an appropriate headline for one such story using the phrasal verb your group has been assigned to. Share a summary of your story and the recommended headline with your classmates.
Here are four phrasal verbs that touch on dishonesty.
Phrasal Verbs l Cover up: to stop people from discovering the truth about something bad. l Dig up: to discover new facts about a person or situation after a lot of searching. l Catch out: to discover that someone is lying or doing something wrong. l Find out: to discover that someone has been dishonest or has tricked you.
(Review: A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb with both an adverb and a preposition. A phrasal verb has a meaning which is different from the original verb. That’s what makes them fun, but confusing. You may need to try to guess the meaning from the context, or, failing that, look it up in a dictionary.) http://www.learnenglish.de
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