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You had a bad day. To cheer you up, your friend brings over some homemade chicken noodle soup and leaves it on your front porch. You get distracted doing some yard work and accidentally leave the soup outside overnight. The next day your friend calls to ask if you liked the soup.
What do you do?
Lie and say the soup was great. What she doesn't know won't hurt her.
Admit you accidentally left the soup outside. Apologize that you had to throw it out.
Useful Language
Students can access a Useful Language drawer at any time during the activity. The key vocabulary and sentence stems will help your learners express their thoughts and opinions.
Keywords
- white lie: a small lie told to be polite or to avoid hurting someone’s feelings
- distracted: not paying full attention because your mind is on something else
- spoiled: no longer safe to eat
Sentence Stems
- I think she made the soup with love, so...
- I didn’t want to make her feel bad, so...
- I figured she would understand if...