Homework. BBC to put programs online

BBC to put programs online

READING

SPEAKING

EXPANDING INTERNET: Discuss with your partner(s) your thoughts on the following uses of the Internet. Talk about their pros and cons.

USES	PROS	CONS
Live broadcasts from high school lessons
Live broadcasts of all university lectures
Accessing any TV program ever made
Live coverage of all sporting events
Live broadcasts of police prison cells and interrogations
A 24-hour webcam in the Oval Office in the White House
Access to all of the world’s books
Access to all of the world’s music

Change partners and discuss what you heard from previous partners.

Read and fill in the spaces.

The British Broadcasting Corporation _____ __ _____ a new service next year that will make its TV programs _________ on the Internet. Web surfers will be able to download television and radio programs up to a week after they were originally _________. Director General Mark Thompson _________ the plans for the service, provisionally called “MyBBCPlayer”, at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on Saturday. The plan is _________ to the BBC’s strategy to use the Internet to increase its global _________ and reach people all over the world. He did not _________ whether viewers would have to pay a fee to download the programs.

Mr. Thompson is seeking new ways to _________ the Internet. He said: “Every creative leader in the BBC is _________ with the question of what the new technologies and audience behaviors mean for them and their service.” Other options the BBC is _________ with include a simultaneous broadcast of its two main channels. However, this will be _________ to the UK only. In “a departure from past corporation policy”, another _________ service is being able to buy BBC music and programs online. Mr. Thompson said: “The idea that in the _________ of the iPod that the public would not welcome the opportunity to buy a piece of music they heard on the site seems to me to be _________.”

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find more information on the BBC. Share your findings with your class in the next lesson.

3. LETTER: Write a letter to the head of the BBC. Tell him what you think of his new idea to put programs online and to sell BBC products. Read your letters to your classmates in your next lesson. Did you all write about similar things?

4. TELEVISION: Write an essay about how important TV is in your life. What would happen if you had no television? Tell your classmates the main points of your essay in your next lesson. Did you all write about similar things?

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