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The document provides definitions and examples of terms related to lying, exaggeration, storytelling, and hoaxes. It includes exercises testing comprehension of true/false statements and matching words with their definitions. The document covers topics like white lies, rumors, gossip, elaborate hoaxes, exaggeration, bedtime stories, anthropological hoaxes, and vocabulary words like tricked, faking, and invasion.

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The document provides definitions and examples of terms related to lying, exaggeration, storytelling, and hoaxes. It includes exercises testing comprehension of true/false statements and matching words with their definitions. The document covers topics like white lies, rumors, gossip, elaborate hoaxes, exaggeration, bedtime stories, anthropological hoaxes, and vocabulary words like tricked, faking, and invasion.

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Exercise 3 / Page 35

Tell a white lie - a harmless or trivial lie, especially one told to avoid hurting someone's feelings.
Spreading rumours –
A bit of gossip - conversation or reports about other people's private lives that might
be unkind, disapproving, or not true
Elaborate hoax –
Prone to exaggeration - it means you habitually overstate the truth.
Making up stories –  to create a story that is not true.
Bedtime stories - is a traditional form of storytelling, where a story is told to a child at bedtime to
prepare the child for sleep

Exercise 2 / Page 36
1. The Philippines government encouraged thousands of visitors to see the tribe – FALSE
2. After losing power, Manuel Elizalde gave some money to the tribe – TRUE
3. There have been many hoaxes with anthropology – TRUE
4. Piotr Zak, Sidd Finch and Nat Tate were all invented characters – TRUE
5. The public loved Piotrs Zak’s and Nat Tate’s work, but the critics knew it has a hoax –
FALSE

Exercise 8 / Page 38
1. Tricked – fooled
2. Alone – isolated
3. Ruin – destroy
4. Faking - pretending
5. A big, elaborate trick – hoax
6. Extremely old – ancient
7. Extremely important – vital
8. Freed – liberated
9. Expanded – extended
10. Extremely sad – tragic

Exercise 9 / Page 38
 Supposedly – apparently, purportedly.
 Performing – operating, doing.
 Spawned – to grow suddenly, to produce.
 Floated – sail, fly.
 Pursued – follow, haunt.
 Ordered – command.
 Heralding – harbinger.
 Arrival – advent.
 Perpetrated – carry out.
 Conned – trick.
 Invasion – occupation.
 Genuine – original.

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