3. Complete the following sentences choosing the best ending.

1. According to the text, lying

   1. is saying something which we are not sure of.

   2. develops a person’s intellectual ability.

   3. makes one's life easier.

2. The difference between lying and imagination

1. is not defined by psychologists.

2. can hardly be grasped by a child.

3. disappears as one grows up.

3. In the text the author

1. explains that children are taught to lie by adults.

2. proves that lying is something people are born with.

3. puts lying into different categories.

4. When you lie for self-protection

1. your lie can be detected.

2. nobody is harmed.

3. you try to find someone else to be punished for your faults.

4. Speak on the following points using words and expressions given.

1. The attitude of adults to the children telling lies (bad habit, deceive people, lies and imagination, to criticize, to praise for imagination).

2. Lies and compliments –any difference? (to tell compliments, a kind lie, to gain affection and friendship, to make life easier, to fish for compliments).

3. It is quite possible to identify liers (body language, verbal clues, to spot, unable to stay still, to play with the hair, to speak fast).

4. Lies egoists and ambitious people might tell (dangerous, to get a promotion, not to be blamed, not to care about other people).

Unit XX

Key words and expressions: mobile phone revolution, rise of sales, to transform life, to spend much time on the phone, innovations, to generate a new type of language, the rich and the poor, drawbacks.

Pre-reading tasks

1. Look through the key words and guess what the text is about.

No consumer product in history has caught on as quickly as the mobile phone, global sales of which have risen from six million in 1991 to more than 500 million a year now. The arrival of the mobile phone has transformed our lifestyles so much that men now spend more time on the phone than women, according to the results of our special opinion poll.

The survey found that men with mobile phones (72% of all men) spend more than an hour a day making calls on an average weekday. The average man spends sixty-six minutes on his landline or his mobile, compared with fifty-three minutes before the mobile phone revolution. But the poll reveals that, while men are using their phones a lot more, women are actually spending less time on the phone. Slightly fewer women (67%) have a mobile phone, and the survey shows that the average amount of time they spend on the phone on a weekday has gone down from sixty-three minutes before they got a mobile to fifty-five minutes now. The explanation might lie in the fact that men love to play with techno toys while women may be more conscious of the bills they are running up.

Innovation in mobile phones has been happening so fast that it's difficult for consumers to change their behaviour. Phones are constantly swallowing up other products like cameras, calculators, clocks, radios, and digital music players. There are twenty different products that previously might have been bought separately that can now be part of a mobile phone. Mobiles have changed the way people talk to one another, they have generated a new type of language, they have saved lives and become style icons.

Obviously, the rich have been buying phones faster than the poor. But this happens with every innovation. Mobile phone take-up among the poor has actually been far quicker than it was in the case of previous products, such as colour television, computers and Internet access. Indeed, as mobile phones continue to become cheaper and more powerful, they might prove to be more successful in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor than expensive computers.

There are obviously drawbacks to mobiles as well: mobile users are two and a half times more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain adjacent to their phone ear, although researchers are unable to prove whether this has anything to do with the phone; mobile thefts now account for a third of all street robberies in London, and don't forget about all the accidents waiting to happen as people drive with a mobile in one hand. But, overall mobile phones have proved to be a big benefit for people.

Post-reading tasks