Global View - Urban Legends  (C0360)

A:

Have you read all these crazy things that are going on around the world?

B:

What do you mean?

A:

I was reading about how some people get tricked or drugged in their hotel rooms and have their organs removed! Then they are sold onthe black market.

B:

Don’t tell me you actually believe all that? Don’t beso gullible, they are just urban legends. They are just stories people make up to scare you.

A:

Well, I was also reading about how some popular songs have subliminal or even satanic messages if you play them backwards! Can you believe that?

B:

You really think an artist or songwriter is going to go through the trouble of putting subliminal or satanic messages in a song? Don’t beso naive!

A:

Well maybe you are right, but how about the story of how KFC has rows of headless chickens which are super grown in order to get bigger chickens faster!

B:

Sounds a bit too far fetched to be true don’t you think?

Key Vocabulary

black market

any system in which goods are sold and bought ille

gullible

easily believing something that is not true

urban legend

stories that are exaggerated or not true

make up

invent

subliminal

something that persuades in a sub conscious way

satanic

relating to Satan or the devil

naive

having or showing a lack of experience, judgment,

far fetched

improbable; not naturally pertinent

Supplementary Vocabulary

Myth

an untrue story

boogie man

a fictional being that scares children

cynical

a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions

grounded

quality of not letting emotions or impulses get the best of you

realist

a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.

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