TELEVISION THE GOOD AND THE BAD

TELEVISION THE GOOD AND THE BAD

What do you think of today’s TV programmes?

What is your opinion on programmes on TV?

What do you think about TV news and analyses? – Is the reporting objective or not

What do you thing of advertising on TV? How does advertising between programmes or in the middle of programmes make you feel?

Could you be happy without having a TV at home?

The expressions bellow show the ones expressing positive approach, and on the other hand a negative one on TV broadcasting – which is which?

WORTHWHILE

INFORMATIVE

UPLIFTING

VIOLENT

CRUDE

SHALLOW

TRUTHFUL

OBJECTIVE

RELIABLE

SENSATIONAL

BIASED

SELECTIVE

THOUGHT-PROVOKING

INSIGHTFUL

DULL

USEFUL

SILLY

EXAGGERATED

GREAT

ACCEPTABLE

ANNOYING

FRUSTRATING

UPSETTING

Questions

What are the benefits of TV watching?

In what ways can TV watching be harmful?

Is there overkill in the choice of programmes with cable and satellite (DIGI) TV?

Should TV stations air programmes 24hours a day? Why?

Are there any undesirable qualities that people acquire after too much TV watching? If so, which?

What criteria do you use in deciding whether or not to watch a TV programme?

If you had the authority, what changes would you make to the TV industry or TV programming?

Does television create false expectations about life, which then cause people to be dissatisfied and unhappy? Give examples.

Think of a possible title for the following story

When television ………………………………………

In the following prgrph fill in the right form of the verb.

I was eight years old when I lost my first very best friend, Lucy. We used to ………………. (to spend) hours………………(to play) together in my backyard. Then, one August day long ago, Lucy’s mother called earlier than usual for her to come home right away and ……………… (to see) what her daddy …………………(to bring) them. It was the last time I ………………. (to play) with her.

In the following prgrphs fill in the right expression(s).

I knocked on my friend’s door every day, ………………… her mother always said …………… Lucy was busy and couldn’t come ……….. to play. I tried ……………, but her mother always answered saying Lucy couldn’t come to the phone. Lucy was …………. busy to play? She had to be dead. Nothing else …………… sense. What else could separate such great friends? I cried …………. cried.

Some weeks later I overheard my mother say to my father how maybe I would calm down about Lucy if we got a television too. A what? What on earth was a television? The word was new to me. At last I knew what had happened to Lucy. “The television ate her! ” “Oh, Linda, ” my parents said, laughing. “Television doesn’t eat people. You’ll love television just like Lucy. ”

Christmas arrived and Santa Claus brought us a television. “See? ” my parents said, “television doesn’t eat people. ” Maybe not. But television changes people. It changed my family forever.

We stopped ………….. dinner at the dining-room table after my mother found …………… about TV trays. During the meal we used to talk to ………… another. Now television talked to us. Daddy stopped buying books. He watched television now. But it has been Daddy who ……….. taught me the joy of reading. Mama and Daddy stopped going to movies. Most movies …………. One day show up on TV, they said. After a while, Daddy and I didn’t ……….. baseball anymore. We didn’t go to ball games ……………..

Maybe the TV hadn’t actually eaten Lucy, ………….. once her parents turned her in the direction of that box, she never looked back. Maybe …….. her parents had allowed her to further experience the real world, she wouldn’t …………….. been satisfied with a 50-centimeter world. All I know is I never had another first best friend. What’s more, I was right all along: television really ……………….. eat people.

Comment on the following:

What beneficial activities can TV keep people from doing?

How can parents control their children’s TV viewing and keep them from watching things inappropriate for their age?

Do you think that TV gives us a distorted vies of life and teaches us wrong values?

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