Lie-to-me English Worksheet 3q6j70

“There are 6 and a half billion people in the world, but we all look the same when we lie. Dilated pupils. Oblique eyebrows. An upturned lip. The smallest line on your face. The slightest body movement. It all tells a story. It maybe human nature to lie. But the truth is written all over your face. Words lie. Your face doesn’t.”

LIE TO ME (Season 1, Episode 1, min. 00:00-10:40) Pre-Watching Discussion: 1. What’s body language or nonverbal communication? Do you pay attention to it while talking to people? Give examples. 2. How much of our communication lies in body language and how much in words? 3. What does it mean when a person is looking to the right while speaking? What about looking to the left? 4. How to define if a smile is real or fake? 5. Do you think eye is important? Why? 6. What can dilated (enlarged) pupils express? 7. Will you trust the person who answered your question fast or took time to think before answering more? Why? 8. Lie about something you did yesterday mentioning time.

Watch the episode of “Lie to Me” and answer the questions: 1. Why doesn’t Kyle Lightman have much faith in words? Do you? 2. What kind of facial expressions does he study? Why are they called like that? 3. What were the examples of a person’s body contradicting his/her words in the episode? What does it mean? 4. Is there a way to tell if surprise is real or a person is faking it? 5. What’s a “scorn”? Is it a good sign if you see it on your friend’s face? 6. What do “oblique eyebrows” and “rigid repetition” mean? 7. Do mircoexpressions vary depending on a person or race? 8. Most people avoid eye when they’re lying. Do you agree? 9. Do you believe that the teenager has murdered his teacher? Why? 10. Why did Dr.Lightman tell the attorney Hutchinson he’s better keep the fingers off his nose?

Answers for Pre-Watching Activity:

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87% Eye shifting to the right - creating, fabricating, guessing, lying, storytelling Eye shifting left - recalling, ing “facts” Wrinkles around the eyes and corners of the lips, shiny eyes Pupils dilated (enlarged) - attraction, desire A person who has planned his lie will answer faster than a person who is genuinely recalling the events as it takes time to recall memory and a person who is lying is likely to want to finish off the story quickly. 7) (lying or exaggeration) + Touching nose while speaking (lying or exaggeration) 8) A person who is lying will not be able to recall the event in reverse chronological order of what he had just described in chronological order unless he has planned his lie and still re it. Meaning if a person is lying that he was on mrt at 5:30pm, on bus at 6:05pm, reached home at 6.45pm, had dinner at 7pm, watched TV at 7.15pm, played computer game at 8pm, most likely, he or she is unable to tell the event in reverse order if the lie was fabricated on the spot as he or she would not be able to recall the series of event in reverse-chronological order.