Is Television a Blessing or a Curse and
Is Television a Blessing or a Curse and a Time Waster?
WARM - UP • What are your favourite programmes? • What qualities do you look for in a television programme? • What are the programmes that appeal to specific age groups? • What are the advantages and disadvantages of TV?
Say what you think about the following: • Television may be the cause of many disputes and conflicts in the family. • Television is a terrible waste of time. • Some people say that television kills conversation. • Television makes people argue and discuss things, think and talk more. • We can’t do without television nowadays.
Politics on TV discussion programmes, and I love watching (1)______ politics, so you’d think I’d like enjoy watching (2)______ being interviewed on TV. But I don’t. All too often, politicians journalists ridiculous (3)______ ask them the most (4)_____ questions, and, when they do get an interesting question, I sit disbelief as some of the most there watching in (5)_____ powerful people in the country give totally (6) _____ (7) ______ unconvincing responses. It’s as if they don’t care whether (un)believable or not. Often, they’re very their reply is (8) _______ poor (9) communicators _______, and they’re frequently even more (10)______ uninformed about key issues than I am. I don’t expect humorous – they are serious them to be particularly (11)_____ people, after all – but at least they could say something interesting occasionally. It makes me want to stand for election myself! 1. DISCUSS 2. POLITICS 3. JOURNAL 4. RIDICULE 5. BELIEVE 6. POWER 7. CONVINCE 8. BELIEVE 9. COMMUNICATE 10. INFORM 11. HUMOUR
Speaking C 3 Give a 2 -minute talk on television. Remember to discuss the following: • what your favourite types of TV programmes are and why; • if your taste in TV programmes has changed over the years and why; • how often you watch television; • what you think of Russian television.
“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. ” G. Marx
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