We are surrounded by thousands of dishonest people in this world: politicians, false friends, fake news... and when it comes to children, parents lie to their children in order to protect them, to manipulate them, to keep them in a coccoon...
I prefer to be honest with my students and tell them things straightaway so that they can face problems better and even avoid dramatic situations.
Here are some related articles you can read about the topic:
You can't protect children by lying to them – the truth will hurt less (The Guardian)
Truth or lie - trust your instinct, says research (BBC News)
Through fantasy, children face their fears and become braver (The Guardian)
Is dishonesty hereditary? (CNN)
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ResponderEliminarActivities for my 2nd ESO students: Watch the following video and write sentences with both words.
you must do your homework
he can make dinner
he can make money
she has to do the exercises
Walking among dishonest people
ResponderEliminarIn Spain there are many dishonest people but above all it is the politicians and journalists who publish false news. The politicians lie to us, promising us things that they do not fulfill then and make us believe that the country is going to be better with them in charge. The journalists create false news so they do not fire them and make us believe things that may have happened but not as they say.
You have to do sport
ResponderEliminarDid you make the dinner
You should do your homeworks
Can you make the breakfast?
He must do homeworks
Daniel del Pozo Quesada 2ºESO A
Activities for my 2º ESO students: Watch the following video and write sentences with the two words.
ResponderEliminarFour things to remember about MAKE & DO.
1. You don't tell lies
2. We make lies so that they don't punish us
3. We don't tell lies so that they do not punish us
4. We shouldn't make lies our parents
We life in a world where people use lies all the time and it is everywhere. For example, it is used for politicians when they promise many things that they wouldn´t comply, in advertisements that it say lies things about the product, in web pages on internet with lies information,…
ResponderEliminarWhen someone lies we have some ways to detect it, although in some situations it´s difficult to detect it, something so important is body language and the facial expressions because it´s things that we do unconsciously, for example, when someone lies avoid eye contact,…
Parents use pious lies with their sons because in some situations are necessary, for example, with Santa Claus that it is good fantasy in our childhood,… Many times, parents lies for protect to their sons in hard situations that they don´t understand when they are small.
I think that the truth is so important in our life because it is a moral principle that makes us better persons and honest persons.
Patricia Rodríguez Martín 2ºBach
The journalists make false news so that people are surprised and they do not throw them out of their work because their job is to invent news and the politicians make us believe that the country will be well in their charge, but they promise things they will never do.
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ResponderEliminarAre you honest or dishonest ? Most of the time I´m honest ,but , sometimes I´m also dishonest . Do you lie often ? And why ?.
ResponderEliminarBeing an honest person is one who acts sincerely in accordance with morality and who respects the stablished norms. Some people are dishonest ,this concept is related to lying , but being dishonest is not always a bad thing because sometimes we need to lie either for ourselves , to protect other people, to get what we want or just to give a better image of ourselves.
Honesty allows us to live better and feel good with ourselves. It also allows us to increase confidence and to keep us on the right way. When we are honest , we often attract to our life people who are also honest and we can make good friends. When you are honest , people are going to believe in you , you will not be in trouble and your conscience will be calm.
As far as I´m concerned , being honest is the best option to live a good life without lies and to be a better person .
In which part of the scale would you place yourself, in the part of being an honest person or in the part of being a dishonest person? Or are you a middle person?
ResponderEliminarAn honest person is one who never lies and always goes with the truth ahead, also these types of people try to help as much as they can to other people who have a problem.
On the other hand, a dishonest person would be the opposite of the previous one, that is, a person who is always lying and who only cares about her happiness and never has the intention of helping others.
But we also find the case of people who are in the middle of the scale, that is, they are honest and dishonest, these people are honest with the people who have helped them, they behave well with them and they do not lack respect, but With those people who have messed with them and they have lacked respect, they do not pay attention to them since for them it is as they did not exist.
In my opinion, being an honest person gives you many benefits, such as greater happiness since people trust you a lot, but you also have to be little honest with those people who do not deserve it.
Honesty consists in telling the truth even if it does not benefit us. Honest people always tell the truth, they are fair and reasonable. On the contrary, dishonest people are often prone to lying, stealing, cheating, and pretense. Honesty is one of the greatest virtues of the human being. Examples of honesty: When a person drops his wallet on the street, the honest person returns it to its owner.
ResponderEliminarHonest students are the ones who don't copy from the book or from their classmates: if they don't know the answer, then they don't answer.
One sentence: No legacy is as rich as honesty. A liar is caught before a lame.
I think it is better to act with the truth.
Francisco José Prados Espinosa 3ºA