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DIRECTIONS

1. That’s a class work.

2. I’m going to show you some sentences and you’ll have to decide if they are BLUFF or TRUE.

3. You must say BLUFF or TRUE, after that you’ll have to explain why you think they are true or bluff.

4. That’s not necessarily a game, so nobody wins or loses anything. Don’t be shy and give your opinion.

Are you ready?

Oranges are always

yellow or orange.

BLUFF

In many countries, oranges are green, even when ripe, and are sold that way

in shops. Some oranges are a cross between tangerines and the pomelo or

"Chinese grapefruit" (which is light green or yellow), and were first grown in Southeast Asia. Vietnamese oranges and Thai tangerines are bright green

on the outside and orange only on the inside.

The egg came first than the chicken.

TRUE

As the geneticist J. B. S. Haldane remarked, "The most frequently asked

question is: 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?' The fact that it is still asked

proves either that many people have never been taught the theory of evolution or that

they don't believe it." With that in mind, the answer becomes

obvious. Bird evolved from reptiles, so the first bird must have come out of an egg--

laid by a reptile.

The chances of a coin landing on heads are the same chances of

landing on tails.It’s fifty-fifty.

BLUFF

It isn't fifty-fifty. If the coin is heads up to begin with,

it's more likely to land on heads. Students at Stanford University

recorded thousands of coin tosses with high-speed cameras and discovered the chances are

approximately fifty-one to forty-nine.

A person whose mother tongue is very different from English will never

lose his/her accent when moving to the United

States.

THAT’S A SUPER BLUFF

“Once you're an adult it takes longer, but it happens. Especially if you're trying hard and

having pronunciation classes. It doesn’t matter if you were born in Pakistan or if

your English teacher is French or if you live in Colombia . It’s always possible to lose

your original accent and speak English like a native speaker. Everything depends on you.”

Jeremy Harmer

A cloud weighs like

100 elephants.

TRUE

According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in

Boulder, Colorado, an average cloud weighs about 100

elephants, while a big storm the clouds can weigh about 200,000

elephants.

Pangea was the name of the Earth’s

original (first) continent.

BLUFF

The very first supercontinent was

called Vaalbara and it started forming more than 3 billion years

ago.

The End