How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to people who carefully choose the shows that they
watch. Television can increase our knowledge of the outside world, there are high quality programmes that help us
understand many fields of study, science, medicine, the different arts and so on. Moreover, television benefits very
old people, who can‟t leave the house, as well as patients in hospitals. It also offers non-native speakers the
advantages of daily informal language practice. They can increase increase their vocabulary and practice listening.
2. On the other hand, there are several serious disadvantages of television. Of course, it provides us with a pleasant way
to relax and spend our free time, but in some countries people watch television for an average of six hours or more a
day. Many children stare at the TV screen for more hours or more a day. Many children Stare at the TV screen for
more hours a day than they spend on anything else, including studying and sleeping . Its clear that TV has a powerful
influence on their lives and that its influence is often negative.
3. Recent studies show that after only thirty seconds of television viewing , a person‟s brain „relaxes‟ the same way that
it does just before the person fall asleep. Another effect of television on the human brain is that it seems to cause
poor concentration. Children who view a lot of television can often concentrate on a subject for only fifteen to
twenty minutes. They can pay attention only for the amount of time between commercial.
4. Another disadvantage is that television often cause people to become dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life does
not seem so exciting to these people. To many people, television becomes more real than reality and their own lives
seems boring. Also many people get upset or depressed when they can‟t solve problems in real life as quickly as
television actors seem to.
5. Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven thousand murders on the TV. He or she begins to believe
that there is nothing strange about fights, killings and other kinds of violence. Many studies show that people become
more violent after viewing certain programmes. They may even do the things that they see in a violent show.
(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and sub – headings. Use
recognizable abbreviations (minimum four) and a format you consider suitable. Supply a suitable title to it.
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television has a big impact on the way we spend our free time television often encourages us to think that the world is more violent than it really is through tv we perceive the glamorous life of people and believe that they are better off than we are television contributes to our education and knowledge
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