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com. Hello and welcome for the English we speak I'm Faye Faye and not for the first

time it looks like Rob is late. Oh here I am, yeah really sorry the bus was really slow. Hmm. Bad on the

rose today huh? Terrible traffic. That's funny because I took the train in this morning and I saw you at the other end of the carriage

Okay. Yes, sorry. Yes, I took the train, not the bus. Little fibb there.

Why would you want to fib about that? Well, not to worry, it gives us the perfect opportunity

to talk about fibs and fibbing something Rob is very good at.

Oh yes to fib is to tell a small lie nothing too serious like giving a false reason for

being late.

Oh come on Féfei you do it too.

I'm always on time. Well almost always.

You can use FIB as a verb to FIB

and it can also be a noun a little fib or to tell a fib. Let's listen

to these examples.

Marty fibbed that he was going to study at his friend Lucille's house, when in fact they went

to see a movie.

While watching the horror scenes, Marty was so scared he had to close his eyes but after the film he fibbed that he was

not frightened at all.

Marty told Lucio that he knew the main actor from the movie but that was just another fib. In fact Marty had just met the actor for

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