True Lies

Task title: 'True Lies'.

Date of task: 19th September, 2011.

Aim of task: Pair up in two, and tell your partner two stories about yourself, one false and one true. See if they can guess which is which.

Description of task:

• Partners in turn tell each other two stories. Act as if both are true, but one is false. Partner has to guess which one is true.

• I told the true story about why and how I came into LPCUWC and a 100% false story of my first girlfriend. My partner,  Undine, guessed correctly. She told a story about hitchhiking and meeting a photographer (false) and her road trip in the summer (true). I guessed wrong.

Reflection:

• I think I need to further improve my skill of observing people, I read a book written by a former FBI agent about mind-reading, and then I guessed Steve's true and false story correctly, after observing his small movement of his body and especially eyes. Undine purposely  pretend to be nervous when she is saying his true story, I am not really thinking much as I am planning my own story, so I guessed wrongly, I should have realized that it is too obvious.

Conclusion:

• Knowing how to tell a fake story is important as acting is performing an imaginative story.