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Unit Ten: Entertainment
Lesson 1
Getting the best out of TV
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read two passages on TV
• talked about the educative functions of TV
• written a newspaper article on the negative aspects of TV
A Name some TV personalities. Who is your favourite TV personality? Tell your partner and say why you like him/her.
What is your favourite TV programme? Tell each other about it.
B In pairs talk about the following and note down at least two points about each.
What do you think are the good and bad effects of TV?
C Read the following extract from a newspaper article on television as a medium of entertainment.
Television has become the most common and widespread source of entertainment of the present world. A wide range of programmes of varied interest is telecast on numerous channels. Almost every middle class and even working class families have a television set today. Television programmes are not only entertaining; they can be highly educative too. For example, television is used for distance learning. Courses run by the Open University are shown on BTV. Several channels like the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel telecast highly informative programmes. Watching TV, however, has become an addiction for many.
Satellite telecasting has added new dimensions to television but it has sometimes been branded as a cultural assault on developing nations. The East is being exposed more and more to Western music, entertainment and modes of life. As a result, young people's tastes arc gradually being influenced by them.
Find out what the passage says about:
1 TV as a mode of entertainment
2 The role of TV in education
3 The impact of satellite TV on society
D Now read this report on the use of TV in the USA.
A major influence on American children's lives is the television shows they watch. TV viewing statistics arc staggering: 96% of US homes have at least one television set, and children aged three to five watch an average of fifty hours of TV every week. By the time these kids graduate from high school, they will have spent more than 22,000 hours in front of the box but only 11,000 hours in school. Most research on the effects of TV on children centres round whether watching so much violence on TV makes them more aggressive. Many studies show that it docs. Indeed TV watching influences children's learning style too.
(Adapted from: G. Ramson, Preparing to Teach Reading)
In pairs answer the following.
1 Why arc the TV viewing statistics described as 'staggering'?
2 What docs research on the effects of TV on children suggest?
E Discuss and make a list of what you think are the bad effects of television that are not already mentioned in the two passages.
F Write a newspaper article on the bad effects of television on young people in Bangladesh in about 150 words.
Focus:
Skills.
Reading,
speaking &
writing. Functions.
Expressing cause-effect relationships.
Grammar/Structure.
Simple present to express state,
future perfect. Vocabulary.
dimension, branded, cultural assault,
staggering, .aggressive.
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Unit Ten: Entertainment
Lesson 1
Getting the best out of TV
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read two passages on TV
• talked about the educative functions of TV
• written a newspaper article on the negative aspects of TV
A Name some TV personalities. Who is your favourite TV personality? Tell your partner and say why you like him/her.
What is your favourite TV programme? Tell each other about it.
B In pairs talk about the following and note down at least two points about each.
What do you think are the good and bad effects of TV?
C Read the following extract from a newspaper article on television as a medium of entertainment.
Television has become the most common and widespread source of entertainment of the present world. A wide range of programmes of varied interest is telecast on numerous channels. Almost every middle class and even working class families have a television set today. Television programmes are not only entertaining; they can be highly educative too. For example, television is used for distance learning. Courses run by the Open University are shown on BTV. Several channels like the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel telecast highly informative programmes. Watching TV, however, has become an addiction for many.
Satellite telecasting has added new dimensions to television but it has sometimes been branded as a cultural assault on developing nations. The East is being exposed more and more to Western music, entertainment and modes of life. As a result, young people's tastes arc gradually being influenced by them.
Find out what the passage says about:
1 TV as a mode of entertainment
2 The role of TV in education
3 The impact of satellite TV on society
D Now read this report on the use of TV in the USA.
A major influence on American children's lives is the television shows they watch. TV viewing statistics arc staggering: 96% of US homes have at least one television set, and children aged three to five watch an average of fifty hours of TV every week. By the time these kids graduate from high school, they will have spent more than 22,000 hours in front of the box but only 11,000 hours in school. Most research on the effects of TV on children centres round whether watching so much violence on TV makes them more aggressive. Many studies show that it docs. Indeed TV watching influences children's learning style too.
(Adapted from: G. Ramson, Preparing to Teach Reading)
In pairs answer the following.
1 Why arc the TV viewing statistics described as 'staggering'?
2 What docs research on the effects of TV on children suggest?
E Discuss and make a list of what you think are the bad effects of television that are not already mentioned in the two passages.
F Write a newspaper article on the bad effects of television on young people in Bangladesh in about 150 words.
Focus:
Skills.
Reading,
speaking &
writing. Functions.
Expressing cause-effect relationships.
Grammar/Structure.
Simple present to express state,
future perfect. Vocabulary.
dimension, branded, cultural assault,
staggering, .aggressive.