Name: Learn English Vocabulary: FAKE NEWS
Uploaded: 2018-06-16T01:31:52.000Z
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My name is Emma, and in today's video I am
going to teach you some key expressions you

Modal verbs - A2

can use when somebody tells you something
that's not true and you want to argue against

So, in this video I'm going to teach you these
great expressions, but before I do that, we're

going to talk about three words that
are very common in English these days.

Those three words are: "Fake news",
"conspiracy theories", and "hoaxes".

So in this video you will learn what these
words mean, and you will also learn what to

say to somebody that tells you
something that's not true.

The first sentence is: "Scientists
say the earth is flat.

Some people believe this,
but it is not true.

My second sentence: "Michael Jackson is
alive and living as Kim Kardashian."

Again, we have a sentence that
is not true; I made this up.

And finally, my third sentence:
"Listening to rock music causes cancer."

Again, this is untrue;
I also made up this.

So my point here is that a lot of what you
hear from people in conversation not true.

People say these types of things all the time,
and you will know that this is something that's

not true, so what do you say when someone
tells you that the earth is flat, or they

tell you that Michael Jackson
is living as Kim Kardashian?

So, I will teach you those
great expressions you can use.

Before I do that, I wanted to just say that
these three sentences can also be considered

So, we will look at the meaning
of fake news in a moment.

Okay, so the three main words I wanted to
teach you today are words that you will see

"Fake news" is news stories that are not true,
and they're created to damage a person, a

business, an agency, or a government, or they
might also be created to get attention and

So you'll see a lot of fake news on different
social media, like Twitter, Facebook, and

So, this is a very common word these days, a
lot of people are using it, so it's important

We also have the word here:
"conspiracy theory".

So, "a conspiracy theory" is an explanation
of an event or situation that is different

A lot of the times conspiracy theories are about
a government or a business doing something

So let's think of some
conspiracy theories.

Some people believe that the
moon landing, so when...

When astronauts went to the moon in the 1960s,
some people believe the moon landing was fake.

Another conspiracy theory I heard recently
is some people believe that Paul McCartney

from the Beetles actually died in 1966, and
there is a different man who replaced him

So this is a different
conspiracy theory.

So, you'll see a lot of conspiracy theories
on the internet, and a lot of people will

tell you conspiracy theories
during conversations.

The last word I wanted to teach
you was the word: "hoax", "hoax".

So, "a hoax" is a type of practical joke
that is meant to embarrass or hurt people.

So some examples of hoaxes are you'll have these
death hoaxes, where they'll say a celebrity

Or you might have a hoax, like, you know,
some people might take a picture of an alien

or a monster and tell everyone: "Look,
we have evidence of this monster alien."

So, again, fake news, conspiracy theories,
and hoaxes are very common on the internet,

and so for these things that are not true,
what do you say to people when they tell you

Okay, so you've heard a fake news story or
a conspiracy theory or a hoax, maybe your

aunt or your friend just told you it and you
know it's not true, so what do you say to them?

Well, what you can do is you
can challenge their argument.

So, for example, you can say:
"So let me get this straight.

You're saying Paul
McCartney died in 1966."

And then what you can say is, you can say:
"That's not true.", "That's inaccurate.",

"I find that hard to believe.",
"That doesn't make sense."

So these are all expressions we use when
we're saying: "I don't believe you."

Now, if we wanted to say something that was
a little bit more impolite, we can use the

word: "B.S." as in: "That's B.S." "B.S." stands
for "bullshit", and sometimes we don't want

to swear, so we might just want to say to our
friends: "That's total B.S." or "That's B.S."

You can also say to somebody:
"That's ridiculous."

So these are all examples of common things
people say when someone tells them something

So now let's look at some other things we can
say when somebody tells us a fake news story.

Okay, so another thing you can do when somebody
tells you fake news or something that's not

true is you can ask them where their source is,
or: Where did they get the information from?

When we talk about sources or news sources, we're
talking about who said it, so for example,

maybe the news came from your Mom,
so maybe that's not a great source.

Maybe it came from BBC News, or maybe
it came from Wikipedia, or Facebook.

Or if you're in sciences, maybe it
came from a peer-reviewed journal.

Maybe it came from Twitter, or
your aunt, or your friends.

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