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Unit 8 Honestly Speaking Lesson A 1 B CAFHB IEGD C morals a white lie not worth doing has something on his conscience against the law hurt my feelings obvious depends on the circumstances Listening Audio Track 4-8-1/Audio Track 4-8-2 Telling a white lie We have been brought up with the belief that honesty is highly valued and lying is bad. Telling the truth is always the best policy. But it would be too simplistic to say that telling lies is always bad. Telling a white lie, for example, is sometimes acceptable or even necessary. We might tell a white lie to encourage people, to comfort people, or to soothe people. We say this because we care for them. We want them to be confident in themselves. Of course, if not for these purposes, we shouldn’t tell lies, especially to children. This would not only hurt them when they find out the truth, but would set up a bad example for them. That would be very dangerous. A The speaker thinks that telling white lies is sometimes acceptable or even necessary. B encourage people to comfort people to soothe people to children Audio Track 4-8-3/Audio Track 4-8-4 Kate: I work in an office with three really nice women, and we’ve all become friends. One of my coworkers, Sally, is getting married and moving to another city, and she’s looking for a job there. Sally has asked all of us to write letters about her work. She’ll show them at job interviews. Here’s the problem: She’s made a list of things she wants in the letters, and some of them aren’t true. It’s not a big office, she’s not our supervisor, and she didn’t put together our computer system — in fact she doesn’t know much about computers at all. I don’t want to hurt her feelings, but I also don’t want to lie. What would you do, Kevin? Kevin: I think you and the other two women should get together and write a letter about the good things that Sally really has done in your office. That would be the most helpful thing to do. Otherwise, she might get a job she can’t really do. work