The Influence of tv on Children

The influence of TV on children is a problem common to all developed countries, and Ukraine is not exception. According to sociologists, almost 90 percent of schoolchildren spend their time watching TV .A teenager spends between one and half and four hours watching TV. To produce programmes that are interesting and informative is not a simple task and a great deal is being done in this field. Producers and writers of children's programmes try to make sure that their viewers are not turned into passive recipients; their aim is to encourage the youngster to do something useful, to something good.

10. Read the composition below and write an essay reflecting the situation with TV in your country. Guiding questions will help you to cope with your work.

A lot of people think that TV in my country has improved over the last few years. On the other hand there are people who think it has got worse.

Only ten years ago the only TV channels were the state – owned stations. Nowadays in almost every part of the country you can receive a lot of channels. In addition you can buy a satellite dish or pay to receive cable TV.

But does this mean that the quality of TV programmes has improved. There are a lot of movies, game shows, sports programmes and so – called reality shows in which real people talk about dramatic things that have happened to them. So if you like a lot of choice and want to be entertained more than anything else, you would probably say that TV has improved. If you think of TV as an educational aid, you are probably very disappointed with it. Despite the large number of channels, there are few documentary programmes.

There are also fewer programmes about art and classical music.

So TV has improved in terms of the number of channels and the choice of programmes, but in my opinion, it does not provide as much information as it used to, which is its main purpose.

Guiding Questions.

1. Has the national and local TV in your country improved or got worse?

2. How much TV channels can you TV set receive?

3. Have you got a satellite dish? Is it expensive to install it?

4. Is cable TV available in the area where you live? Do you have to pay much to use it?

5. What can you say about the quality of channels?

6. Are you more interested in entertaining or informative function of TV?

7. Have you ever used TV as an educational aim?

8. What is the role of TV in your life?

11. Содержание

    • Міністерство освіти і науки україни
    • Content
    • Unit I about myself. Exercises.
    • II Remember this proverb:
    • III Greetings, Enquiries About Health.
    • Illustrative Dialogues.
    • V. Choose the best answer.
    • VI. Make up your own dialogues.
    • VII. Read the text and answer the questions. Hi! This is Me.
    • VIII. Ask the questions to have the following answers.
    • IX Speak about yourself. Text for Supplementary Reading the secret of happiness.
    • What is Happiness for You
    • Grammar exercises.
    • IX. Read quickly in the singular.
    • The article.
    • XV. Rewrite the sentences including the words in brackets.
    • Question forms
    • Unit II.
    • IX. Give your own opinion about Max's family.
    • X. Communicative activities.
    • XI. Read and do the task below.
    • XII. Generation gap.
    • XIII. A Family Conflict
    • XIV. How not to talk to your Mother.
    • XVI. Write the answer to Helen's letter. Give them advice about the problem. Give reason for advice. Make predictions about how the situation will change. Text for Supplementary Reading.
    • Vicky Samson.
    • Grammar exercises. Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
    • VI. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the adjectives in brackets.
    • VII. Translate into English.
    • Unit III. My rights and duties.
    • II. Remember these sayings.
    • How do you understand them?
    • III. Introductions. Read and learn.
    • Informal:
    • IV. Read the dialogues, learn any of them and reproduce it.
    • Informal
    • V. A team of volleyball players from Kyiv has come to Hlukhiv to take part in a competition. One of the players Peter Klymenko is getting acquainted with Victor Kovalenko.
    • VI. Make up your own dialogue.
    • VII. Read and translate the text.
    • VIII. What are all these rights about? How do you understand them? Are they fair?
    • IX. Agree or disagree. Use these expressions.
    • X. Which rights seem the most important to you? Do you enjoy all these rights? And what about your duties?
    • XI. Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue about your rights and duties. Text for Supplementary Reading.
    • Grammar exercises. Present Simple
    • I Open the brackets. Put the verbs in the Present Simple Tense.
    • II Put these sentences into interrogative and negative forms.
    • III. Transform these sentences according to the model. Give short answer to the questions.
    • B.: … neither …
    • VIII. The reasons of smoking.
    • IX.What piece of advice can you give to a smoker who has made up his mind to give up this bad habit?
    • X. Draw funny cartoons on smokers. Add some more sentences to help your friends to give up smoking.
    • XII. Match the English sentences with their Ukrainian equivalents.
    • XIV.Read these quotations and fill the table.
    • XV. Food plays a very important part in our life. Read the text and learn how it all happens. Then retell the text. How it Happens.
    • XVI. What should people do if they don’t want to be fat? Read the text and write a letter to your friend who likes to eat fast food. Fat Farmers.
    • VXII. Read the text " Healthy Henry". " Healthy Henry".
    • XVIII. What quotation illustrates this text best of all?
    • XIX. Are you healthy?
    • XX. Remember some good rules:
    • Grammar Exercises. The Past Simple.
    • Unit V. Sports in our life. Exercises.
    • Cheerleaders.
    • Recommend this man several kinds of sport which could be less dangerous.
    • IX.Read the information and in not more than 25 words tell the main content of it. Olympic Games.
    • X. Read the following texts and speak about the famous sportsmen of the world.
    • XI. Study the table:
    • XII. Read the composition below and write an essay reflecting the situation with sport in our country. Guiding questions will help you to cope with your work. The Importance of Sport.
    • Guiding Questions.
    • Grammar exercises Future Simple.
    • Unit VI. Leisure Time. Hobbies. Exercises.
    • Illustrative Dialogues.
    • Looking for Names.
    • Photography as a Hobby.
    • Are You Completely Bananas?
    • My Hobbies.
    • My Hobby.
    • My Hobby.
    • XI.If you can’t choose any hobby ask your friend for advice. Make up a dialogue
    • Text for Supplementary Reading. Hobbies.
    • Unit VII. Leisure Time. Theatre. Cinema. Exercises.
    • Invitations.
    • Illustrative dialogues.
    • Remember these words:
    • Text for Supplementary Reading. A Miracle.
    • Grammar tests.
    • 1. Choose the correct variant of the verb :
    • 2. Open the brackets :
    • 3. You have an answer. What was the question?
    • Unit VIII. Leisure. Time. Music. Exercises.
    • The power of music.
    • Do you like music?
    • Text for Supplementary Reading. M. Lysenko.
    • Whitney houston.
    • Grammar tests.
    • 1. Choose the correct variant of the verb :
    • 2. Open the brackets :
    • 3. You have an answer. What was the question?
    • 5. You have an answer. What was the question?
    • 6. Open the brackets :
    • Unit IX
    • IV.Match English words and their translations.
    • V.Translate into English in written.
    • VII. Decide which word is odd one in each group and give your reasons
    • VIII. Anagrams. How quickly can you unscramble the following words?
    • IX. Word formation Complete the chart:
    • X. Read and say your opinion on the topic.
    • XI.Write an essay about the necessity of education nowadays and what do you need to be an educated person. Text for Supplementary Reading. British universities and colleges
    • Vocabulary:
    • IV. Pair work. You are a student of our college. What does it mean to be a student?
    • VI. Read and answer the questions. Our college
    • VI. Say which activities at the lessons and after school give you opportunities:
    • VIII. Write a letter to your friend about your college life. Grammar exercises
    • 6. Translate into English.
    • Unit XI jobs and professions Exercises
    • V. Name at least 3 jobs for each item of the list below. Give reasons to explain your choice in written form.
    • Vocabulary:
    • IX. There are a number of terms and abbreviations that you need to know before you can make sense of want ads. Look through some abbreviations.
    • X. These ads are from original foreign newspaper try to guess the meaning of them.
    • XI. Read this help-wanted ad. Decide which of the three people is best qualified to do the job. Give reasons for your decisions.
    • XII. Speak about your future profession using the plan:
    • These questions will help you.
    • XIII. Choose one of the quotations as a topic for your essay.
    • Texts for Supplementary Reading My Future Profession
    • Computer Programmer
    • A Businessman / a Businesswoman
    • Grammar exercises.
    • 7.Open the brackets .
    • Unit XII.
    • IV.Comment on popular inventions using the following expressions:
    • V. Read brief information about scientists
    • Inventors and inventions
    • Vocabulary.
    • VI. Scanning brief information about scientists work in groups:
    • VII. Illustrative dialogues.
    • VIII. Arrange the words in a sentence:
    • IX. Read the text. Put the verbs in brackets either in the Past Simple Active or the Past Simple Passive.
    • Texts for Supplementary Reading
    • Grammar exercises. Passive Voice
    • 2. Translate in English using Past Simple Active або Past Simple Passive.
    • 3. Translate in English using Future Simple Active або Future Simple Passive.
    • 4. Use the Passive Voice.
    • Unit XIII
    • Mass media
    • The power and dangers of television
    • Exercises.
    • The Influence of tv on Children
    • Imagine that you were offered to run a youth channel on tv. Decide on the following:
    • Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
    • Unit XIV
    • Mass media
    • The world of press
    • Exercises
    • Newspapers and Magazines in Ukraine.
    • Illustrative dialogues.
    • Street Children.
    • Supplementary Task
    • Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
    • Unit XV the world of books Exercises
    • I.Listen and read. [ r]
    • II.Remember these proverbs, and quotations. What do you think of them? How do you understand these words.
    • III.What genres of books do you know? Complete the spider gram with the words concerning genres of books of types of publications.
    • IV.Fill in the table:
    • V.Match the words with their definitions:
    • VI.Fill in the following sentences with the give prepositions:
    • V.Which is the odd word in each group and why?
    • VI.Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below: Bibliography, bookworm, reviews, illustrations, borrow, published
    • VII.Match the following works to their authors. Use Passive Voice.
    • VIII.What kind of writes were these people?
    • IX.Speaking. Books teach us a lot of different things. What are your ideas about it? Fill in the chat.
    • X.Literary heroes can teach you a lot, too. What do they teach you? Fill in the chat.
    • XI.Read an example of book review. Harry Potter
    • Useful Phrases
    • I like to read
    • Is it useful to read books?
    • Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
    • 3. Render the following texts in indirect speech.
    • I. Mark twain and the game warden
    • II. Time works wonders
    • III. An automobile story
    • IV. Bad manners
    • V. The boy and the cakes
    • VI. Too clever
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