I. Read the passage given below.
1. 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 advantage of daily informal language practice. They can increase their
vocabulary and practise 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 a day than they spend on
anything else, including studying and sleeping. It’s 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 falls 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
commercials.
4. Another disadvantage is that television often causes 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 seem 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) One the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and
subheadings. Use recognizable abbreviations (minimum four) and a format you consider suitable.
Supply a suitable title to it.
Answers
Answer:
Complete answer in explanation.
Explanation:
In the question, we have been asked to make notes from the passage using understandable abbreviations and give the passage a suitable title.
TITLE: PROS AND CONS OF TELEVISION
NOTES
AFFECT OF TLVSN ON OUR LIVES
Benefits
Helpful if shows to be wtchd are carefully choosen.
Inc. our knwlge of outside world.
Many prog. help to understand fields of study.
Beneficial to old ppl.
Offers advntg of daily lang. to non-native speakers.
Disadvantages
Negative influence on children.
Watching too much affects eyesight.
Causes poor conc.
Ppl become dissatisfied with their lives.
Ppl become more violent after viewing certain prog.
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