SOCIAL MEDIA AND TV PROGRAMMES

 PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORD "SOCIETY"

Never forget that we live in a multicultural society.  /səˈsaɪəti/

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Is social media a distraction?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-160331


TV PROGRAMMES    /ˈprəʊɡræmz/

 http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/programme_1

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/programme

REALITY TV

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/reality-tv

Speaking practice

 

watch

The children watched television for most of the evening.

 

on 

We were watching the news on television.

 http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/news

1. Do you watch television every day?
2. Have you got a television in your
bedroom?
3. Do you ever watch television before going
to school?  ( BEFORE+ -ING)
4. Do you think you watch too much
television?
5. Does anybody restrict your television
viewing?
6. Do you have a favourite /ˈfeɪv(ə)rət/
television channel?
7. Do you watch more television at the
weekend?
8. Do you watch educational programmes?
9. Would you find it easy to stop watching TV
for a week? ( stop followed by -ing)
10. Do you think children in your country
watch too much TV?

INTERACTION PRACTICE
STUDENT 1
You are a fifteen-year-old teenager. You like action films and sport
programmes.
You don’t mind factual programmes like the News or documentaries but you
hate soap operas and romantic films. You like films that are violent. You think
they are exciting.

STUDENT 2                                                                             /ˈvaɪələns/
You are a parent. You like anything that is funny. You don’t like violence on
TV.
You like every kind of sport except football. You love music and documentaries. You
prefer watching programmes that last less than an hour because you always
have a lot of things to do.

 STUDENT 3
You are a grandparent. You like to watch documentaries and soap operas.
You always fall asleep in films. You don’t like sport very much but you like
football. You like watching television programmes that make you laugh.

STUDENT 4
You are a fourteen-year-old teenager. You love sport and all films. You hate
documentaries and news programmes. You don’t mind comedy programmes.
You don’t like soap operas unless they are about young people.