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This document provides a lesson plan on the topic of white lies and guilty secrets. It includes: 1) A discussion of what white lies are and examples of white lies told in photos of people in different situations. Students are asked whether the lies told would be considered white lies. 2) A listening comprehension activity where students listen to short dialogues between people and determine whether the conversations express surprise or are just checking information based on the intonation of negative questions. 3) A listening activity where students listen to three people on a radio show discussing guilty secrets and answer comprehension questions about why each person feels guilty. 4) Speaking activities where students work in pairs using negative questions to ask and answer

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Upper-Intermediate Lesson7-Student Handoutdocx

This document provides a lesson plan on the topic of white lies and guilty secrets. It includes: 1) A discussion of what white lies are and examples of white lies told in photos of people in different situations. Students are asked whether the lies told would be considered white lies. 2) A listening comprehension activity where students listen to short dialogues between people and determine whether the conversations express surprise or are just checking information based on the intonation of negative questions. 3) A listening activity where students listen to three people on a radio show discussing guilty secrets and answer comprehension questions about why each person feels guilty. 4) Speaking activities where students work in pairs using negative questions to ask and answer

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Upper-intermediate Course

Lesson 7– 90 mins

A pack of lies

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White lies

1. What are white lies? Why do people tell them? Can you give examples?

2. All the people in photos A-F are lying. Who to? Why? Do you think they are all "white
lies"? Would you ever tell any of them?

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3. Listen to what the people are thinking. What is the truth? Why did they lie?
A = He was watching an exciting football match with his mates.

4. Which question was each person asked before they lied?

1. What's wrong? Don't you like it? (I hope she isn't going to complain.)
2. Why haven't I received the report? Who have you sent it to?
3. Have you heard who Suzi is going out with? I don't think you'll like it.
4. How come you're not at work today? You were fine yesterday.
5. Who gave you those? Why won't you tell me?
6. Why didn't you call or text? I had no idea where you were.

Language Focus

1. Find examples of these questions in 4.

1. questions with auxiliary verbs


2. a subject question (with no auxiliary)
3. another way of asking "Why?"
4. negative questions
5. a question with a preposition at the end
6. indirect questions

2. Make these direct questions indirect.

What's the answer? I've no idea what….


Where does he work? Do you know where….?

3. Find examples of these negatives in 4.

…. negative questions.
…. a future negative.
…. negatives with think and hope.

Practice
Questions

5. Put the words in the correct order to make A's questions.

1. A light/ this/ on/ all/ who/ night/ left/ has/?


B Oh, sorry, it was me. I thought I'd switched it off.

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2. A often/ battery/ need/ to/ will/ how/ change/ the/ we?
B About every six months.

3. A what/ do/ from/ this/ have/ text/ is/ idea/ any?


B It says "D x". It must be Deirdra. Or it could be Diana.

4. A what/ do/ the/ know/ is/ time/ you/ match/ on?


B I think it starts at 7.30.

5. A before/ film/ seen/ haven't/ we/ this?


B I think you may be right. I remember how it ends.
6. A has/ you/ hair/ Keri/ with/ have/ done/ what/ her/ seen/?
B Yes! I think it looks quite nice!

Listen and check.

Negative questions

6. Read and listen to two conversations. Which expresses surprise?


Which is checking information?

1. A Don't you like pizza?


B No. Not everybody likes it, you know!

2. A Don't you live near the park?


B Yes, I do. I go running there most days.

Listen again and repeat. Notice the stress and intonation.

7. Work in pairs. Use negative questions to ask and answer about these things.

Surprised! like/ ice cream have got/ smartphone


can/ swim watch/ match last night
Just Is/ birthday next week work/ Berlin once
checking play/ piano have got/ twins

Listen and compare. What are the answers?

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Listening Guilty secrets

8. Look at the pictures. Each one shows someone's guilty secrets. What do you think
happened?

9. Listen to the three people talking on a radio show called Confessions. Why are these
statements wrong?
1. Jane was given the restaurant's specialty to eat on two occasions.
2. Kevin's daughter has always been keen on football.
3. Maggie spent the whole coach journey sitting next to a man.

10. Listen again and answer the questions. Why does each person feel guilty?

1. Jane says:
They had a famous specialty there, … Where was there?
I was starving…. Why was this?
… which wasn't visible from the kitchen or the dining area…
What wasn't visible?
… I did the only thing I could … What did she do?

2. Kevin says:
… it shows just how much I love my wife. What shows this?
… her next words made my blood run cold. What were they?
… these things can get fixed very early… What can get fixed?
… it just came out… What came out?

3. Maggie says:
… I used to travel there by coach and ferry. Where is there?
… he went on and on about it. What was it?
… he asked if everyone was back on board. Who was it?
…it was a desperate attempt to feel less guilty… What was it?

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11. Which phrases go with which story? Who or what do they refer to?

stretch their legs my mouth was watering diehard Arsenal supporters


scalding hot get some shut-eye coloring-in book waving frantically
my worst nightmare the temptation was too great

What do you think?

● Whose story did you find the most shocking? Who would you forgive? Why?
● Do you have a guilty secret you’d like to share?
● Are you good at keeping other people’s secrets? Why is it sometimes difficult?

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Speaking Can that really be true?!

12. Look at facts 1-8 with a partner. Three of them are not true. Which are they?

1. Saudi Arabia doesn't have enough camels – it imports them from Australia.
2. The Aztec Empire is older than Oxford University.
3. North Korea and Finland are separated by only one country.
4. Rome is further south than New York.
5. If a piece of paper were folded 42 times, it would reach to the moon.
6. An octopus has three hearts and nine brains.
7. Peanuts are not nuts.
8. Mammoths went extinct a thousand years before the Egyptians finished building the
Great Pyramid.

13. Student A turn to page 7. Student B turn to the last page. Which facts are true? Tell your
partner more than each one.

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