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Exercise3. Before you read the text check you understand the following words and phrases. Use a dictionary or ask your teacher




Exercise2. Think about the types of programme you watch.

  • Which do you prefer?
  • What types of programme are most popular in your country?
  • What types of programme does your nation make well?
  • Do you buy in programmes from abroad?

Programmes about…..

Music Nature Politics Fashion Sport Art and design Science and Technology Social issues Money and consumer goods Animals People and their lives Space and Astronomy Crime and crime investigations Spies History Travel and foreign cultures Cooking Gardening and DIY Homes and house design or decoration Religion and beliefs Other

 

English My Language English My Language
Cop   Thrills  
Doc   Issues  
tried and tested   at risk  
rely on   poke fun at  
Audience   a wide range  
Trend   crime ridden streets  

Now read the text and decide if the statements are true or false. Correct the false statements.

1. The number of TV channels is increasing

2. There are lots of new and unusual programmes

3. TV dramas set in hospitals and police stations have been popular for a long time.

4. All the new shows are the same

5. There are no American TV shows on British television

Cop and Doc! · Tried and tested British television has a reputation for the variety and the quality of its programming. However, as the number of television channels increases, and it becomes harder to find an audience for their shows, programme makers are increasingly relying on tried and tested formats. By doing this they know that they have more chance of finding an audience than they would through more innovative or unusual television. A good example of this trend is the focus on television shows about the worlds of medicine and crime prevention.
  • Thrills and no risk
Shows set in hospitals, police stations and the crime-ridden streets have for many years been popular with viewers. This is not surprising: they deal with issues that are important to us all, such as justice and the meaning of life; they can show us the thrills of a dangerous world without putting us at risk, and they open up the possibility of all sorts of fascinating interpersonal relationships. However, over the last ten years, the number of ‘Cop and Doc’ shows being shown on television has increased dramatically, and now make up a far greater percentage of the total amount of television shown.
  • Challenging drama
This does not mean, however, that all of these shows are the same. Viewers can watch hourly or half-hourly ‘soap operas’ set in hospitals and police stations (Doctors, Casualty, The Bill). There is a wide range of challenging drama about all aspects of the medical and justice worlds (recent examples being Spooks and Bodies). We can even watch comedies which poke fun at the very factors which make these shows so compelling (The Thin Blue Line, The Green Wing)! In addition, the UK along with the rest of the world’s viewing public is lucky enough to be able to watch the very best ‘Cop and Doc’ shows from the United States, giving us another perspective on how drama and comedy can be drawn from these very interesting worlds. This text originally appeared on the Trend UK website.

Exercise4. Read the descriptions of Reality TV programmes showing in the UK

  • Which programme would you prefer to watch and why?
  • Which programmes do you not like? Why?
  • Have you got any similar programmes in your country?
  • Do you think they are a good or a bad thing?
Reality TV programmes in one season - 2004. There are at least 2 of these programmes on every day Interactive programmes
  • I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here: A group of 10 minor celebrities live in the Australian jungle and their adventures and daily tests are broadcast live. Viewers can vote to remove a celebrity and can text their comments during the live show. The person who stays in the jungle longest wins a lot of money. This programme is shown 7 days a week for up to 3 hours.
  • Fame Academy: A group of wannabe singers are put in a large house in North London for 10 weeks and they prepare songs and sing every week. Viewers at home can vote for the best singers until there is a final programme with 2 finalists. The winner gets a recording contract and wins a year as a pop star. Over 8 million viewers watched the last final.
  • Shattered: A group of young people live in a house for a week and must stay awake. Each day there are tests to see how well they can function. They must leave the house if they fall asleep. Viewers vote and text their comments every day.
Makeover programmes
  • Changing Rooms: 2 couples exchange houses and redecorate a complete room. The programme shows the reaction of each couple when they see their home transformed.
  • Faking it: A member of the public is chosen to learn a new job and then they must convince a panel of judges that it really is their job. Previous challenges involve someone who cannot cook becoming a top chef in 4 weeks and a motorcycle courier learns the skill of playing polo to pretend he is a professional polo player.
  • Celebrity Fit Club: A group of overweight celebrities go on a diet together and are filmed every week doing fitness challenges and talking about what they eat.
  • A Place in the Sun: This show follows people as they buy their holiday home in a hotter climate. There are lots more programmes like this with people starting a new life in another European country.
  • Relocation Relocation: This show follows people deciding on a new place to live in the UK. They are filmed during the process of changing town and house.
Fly-on-the-wall-documentaries
  • Boss swap: Two Managers change jobs and try to run a different company. The camera follows them as they try to make good working relationships with their new employees.
  • Club Reps: This series follows the lives and work of holiday representatives working abroad. You see every detail of their private and working lives. It is sometimes very shocking.
  • Airport: The television cameras film all day and night in an airport for many weeks. Different airport workers are filmed doing their jobs and talking to passengers.
  • The Salon: The television cameras film all day in a hairdressing salon over a long period of time.
Learner Drivers:This show follows people as they learn to drive. People are filmed while they fight with their driving instructors, test the patience of other motorists and pass or fail their driving exam.

Exercise5. Discussion: People are watching more TV. Interactive TV, digital TV and the Internet mean that people spend more time looking at screens.

  • Think of two positive effects of having more TV programmes on offer
  • Think of two negative results for people watching more TV
  • Is having a TV in your bedroom a bad thing?
  • Is it possible for people to have too much choice?

Many Reality TV programmes exploit people. Some people are prepared to do anything to win the money. The TV programme Shattered was criticised for putting the contestants in a very dangerous situation. It is dangerous to go without sleep for a long time.

  • Do you think there should be more control over the types of contests on TV?
  • Are the people on the show Shattered really being exploited?
  • Do you have shows in your country which go too far or ask people to do dangerous things?
  • Are some things too private to show on TV?
  • Are you happy to see more of these shows?

Reality TV is not the best type of programming on UK TV. There are many excellent dramas, documentaries and comedy programmes. Viewers complain that the good programmes are decreasing and the channels are putting on too many Reality TV programmes.

  • What do you think of the balance of programmes in your country?
  • Is there a good mix?
  • Do some types of programme dominate?
  • Are there any types of programme you would like to see more of?

Exercise6. Discuss these statements in your groups. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

  • Television is an excellent way to learn about what’s happening in the rest of the world.
  • Watching TV is a waste of time.
  • Television is bad for your health.
  • I could easily live without television.
  • Television is a tool for brainwashing people.
  • Television is a great way to relax.

Exercise7. Role-play. Here is your role card. The other students in your group must not see your card.

Study the TV programme guide with your group. You are going to discuss the

programmes and try to agree on what to watch. Remember you must take on

the role on your card and forget about what you’d really like to watch!

Role card 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.

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Here is your role card. The other students in your group must not see your card.

Study the TV programme guide with your group. You are going to discuss the

programmes and try to agree on what to watch. Remember you must take on

the role on your card and forget about what you’d really like to watch!

Role Card 2 You are a parent. You like anything that is funny. You don’t like violence on TV. You like all 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.

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Here is your role card. The other students in your group must not see your card.

Study the TV programme guide with your group. You are going to discuss the

programmes and try to agree on what to watch. Remember you must take on

the role on your card and forget about what you’d really like to watch!

Role Card 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.

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Here is your role card. The other students in your group must not see your card.

Study the TV programme guide with your group. You are going to discuss the

programmes and try to agree on what to watch. Remember you must take on

the role on your card and forget about what you’d really like to watch!

Role card 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.

Exercise7. Choose any newspaper (it could be in your own language if you can’t find an English one) and complete the following sentences.

1. The main story today is about…………………
2. The editorial is about…………………………..
3. There are readers’ letters on page…... and they deal with the following topics:…
4. The most interesting feature is about …………
5. There is some scandal on page………….., a crossword on page……, a cartoon on page……. and some small ads on page ………..
6. The most interesting business story is about………. and the largest sports article is about…………….
7. The most striking photograph shows ……………….
8. There are advertisements for……,…… and ……………………………..
9. An article about …………………on page ………….made me feel …..

FOCUS Have you ever done any of these things?

Used a computer send an e-mail bought something on the Internet

Do you or your family have a computer at home?

What new technology do you expect to see in the future?

Read the following article. What do you think about the Internet?

Today, the Internet. Tomorrow,…?

The Internet is a huge network of computers spanning this planet and is now started to bring in the surrounding area like space. Some computers like servers share data, others just surf the web as clients downloading the data. Public Internet began in the late 70’s. In the 70’s web users used an interface called telnet, but now that program is mainly obsolete. Telnet is most widely deployed in accessing college email accounts. The Internet is very helpful, because it’s a huge database of knowledge, from the pictures of family trips to an analysis of quantum mechanics. Everyone should have the Internet because of its near instantaneous communication and huge wealth of knowledge. But how to go on the Internet and do a search for information we need. There are two ways to do it.

The first is when you know an internet address of data you need and the second one is when you try to find information you need by using a search program. In the beginning we have got to enter any browser you like. It could be an Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator or Opera, etc. If we have a broadband connection, we connect to the Internet at once. If not, we have to set up and connect to our dial-up service. Finally, if we want to find some information in the Internet, we are to type an address of this data in the browser we use or simply use the existing search-programs such as the google search program, rambler search program, yandex search program or yahoo search program. They are very simple and popular networks of sites. In these programs we can just type the word or name of thing, we would like to find and then press enter. A search program solves this problem. We get our results in the same window.

Besides data, one can get from the Internet; we can also send and receive e-mail or electronic mail. This internet service is cheaper than ordinary mail and much quicker. It is becoming popular day by day. We can get some news from the Internet, because there are many informational servers in the web.

Exercise1. a) as you read text find the English equivalents to the following:

сеть компьютеров, Интернет-адрес, загружать данные, квантовая механика, войти в Интернет, «удаленный доступ к сети», напечатать в браузере, поисковые программы, информационные сети сайтов, информационный сервер, послать или получить электронную почту, новости из сети, мгновенная связь, учетные записи электронной почты, находиться в сети, выделенное подключение, программа-поисковик, запрос.

b) answer the following questions:

1. What is the Internet? 2. What are the servers? 3. When did public Internet appear? 4. What was the most popular mail interface used in 70s? 5. What kind of browsers do you know? 6. How can we find information in the Internet? 7. Is it cheaper to use the Internet mail service instead of ordinary post office? 8. What research programs do you know?

Exercise2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:

1. The Internet is a global computer network. 2. Invention of modems, special devices allowing your computer to send the information through the telephone line, has opened doors to the Internet for millions of people. 3. Nowadays the most popular Internet service is e-mail. 4. You can work through the Internet, gambling and playing through the net. 5. The local network was designed for short calls which you make and then hang up, but Internet calls often occupy a line for hours. 6. Devices such as Web TV allow our television to browse the Web and use electronic Mail. 7. K.Kao and G.Hockman were the first to come up with the idea of using fiber optic cables, as opposed to copper wire, to carry telephone signals. 8. To help solve the problem of Internet clogs, internet providers are trying new ways of pricing for customers. 9. Computers have opened up a new era in manufacturing and they have enhanced modern communication system. Computers speeds are measured in Hertz or cycles per second. 10. Except two main types of computers, analog and digital there are 8 generations of digital computers or processing units.

Exercise3. Pair work. Agree or disagree with the statements below. Be sure to provide sound arguments. Consider the following points and extend hem whenever possible:

1. We need to have a computer to get access to the Internet today.

2. The digital computers are widely used today.

3. In business time any connection to Net cost more than your connection at night.

4. There are dangers as well as benefits in the Virtual Reality technology.

Exercise 4. Computer functions
What can you do with a computer? Try to separate the functions from this long line of letters.

sendemailwritealetterdocalculationssurftheinternetprintlistentomusicwatchDVDsrecordCDsplaygames

What do you use a computer for?

Exercise 5. Write the names of five class-mates in the columns 1-5 and then ask them the questions about computer games. Write their answers in the chart. Write your own question in the last space.

 
Questions  

 

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Do you like playing computer games?  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

How often do you play computer games?  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

What’s your favourite computer game?  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

Do you think computer games are addictive?  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

Do you usually play computer games alone or with friends?  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 
  • Look at your results and decide who is the biggest computer gamer in your class?
  • Make a bar chart to show the results of your class survey.

Exercise9Quotes for discussion
Read the following quotes from a selection of people involved in the gaming industry. Discuss them with your class.

 
“When you don’t know what the colour of eyes of your ten best friends are because you’ve never met them in real life you may have a problem.” Jay Parker – therapist and co-founder of the Internet Computer Addiction Services.  

 

 

 

 

 
“Blowing somebody’s head off becomes rapidly boring.” Seamus Blackley – Xbox co-creator  

 

 

 

 

 
“You may kill a thousand people on the screen in 4 hours of play.” Pamela Eakes – founder of Mothers Against Violence in America  

 

 

 

 

 
“My only contact with the outside world was this little Tamagochi.” Peter Molyneu – Creative Director of Lionhead Studios  

 

 

 

 

 
“You’ll meet people that you never would have met.” Tim Moss – Sony  

 

 

 

 

 
“If I were designing a game, it would have stuff that girls like, like shopping.” No name –a player at Seattle’s Gameworks Arcade.  

 

 

 

 




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