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Radio is very popular among the British. Many people rely on the radio to learn the latest news. Radio is convenient to listen to while driving a car to and from work in the morning and in the early evening. Later in the evening the British prefer to watch TV programmes.
The main television and radio broadcasting organization in Britain is the British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC). The BBC World Service broadcasts in English and about forty other languages of the world. There are some independent radio and television stations which compete with the BBC. A lot of people listen to local radio and watch local TV.
The first public demonstration of television in Britain was given by John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, in 1926. The BBC began the world's first high-definition TV service6 in 1936: The centre of the British newspaper industry is considered Fleet Street in London.
The first television picture that was ever seen was not exciting. But to the inventor, John Logic Baird (1888-1946), it was wonderful. Baird was always interested in science, but not all of his experiments were successful. When he was twelve years old, he and some friends built a private telephone system. It worked well, but one night a storm pulled down the wires that were stretched across the street by the boys. A man in the street was hurt and the boys’ telephone system had to be closed down.
When John finished school, he got a job in a power station that supplied electricity to the Clyde Valley in Scotland. However, once, because of his experiments, all the electricity in the Clyde Valley was cut off! That was the end of the job. Later he studied electrical engineering at the Royal Technical College and the University of Glasgow.
Television now plays an important role in our life. It is difficult to say if it is good or bad. It is clear that television has advantages and disadvantages.
In the first place television is an entertainment. But it is not only a convenient entertainment. For a family it is more convenient and less expensive to sit comfortably at home than to go out to find entertainment in other places. They don’t have to pay for expensive seats at the theater or cinema. They turn on the TV set and can see interesting films, concerts, football matches.
But some people think that it is a waste of time to watch TV. Those who watch TV needn’t do anything. We are passive when we watch TV. Television shows us many interesting programmes. But again there is a disadvantage here: we watch TV every evening, and it begins to dominate our lives.
My family consists of four people: my brother, my father, my mother and me. My father and my mother are divorced and that is why my father lives separately from us in another town. But he often comes to visit and calls us.
Our house is at 34a-215 Komsomolskiy prospect. We’ve got a car parking and a movie theatre “KinoMAX-Pobeda” near us. We live in a three-room flat on the second floor of an apartment building. Our flat has a living room, a corridor, an anteroom, my brother’s and my room, our mom’s bedroom, a toilet and a bathroom. We’ve got are a lot of posters of computer games in our room. I think it makes our room more modern. The flat is very cosy and tidy because of cleanness of our rooms.
My mother is a doctor. She works as a head of a rheumatological department in 6th City Academic Hospital. She doesn’t go in for sport and her hobby is reading newspaper and watching TV. She is strict and helpful with homework.
My father works on a paper plant. He lives in town Uchaly in Bashkiria with my grandparents. My father goes in for sport. He plays basketball, volleyball and football. And also he likes to play chess. My father is really kind and friendly.
My brother is finishing our school this and he will go to a university this year. He likes to play volleyball and do freestyle wrestling. His main hobby is computer. And also he listens to a rock-band “Metallika”.
I’m a student in our school. I like to play on computer and I am cybersportsman. I professional play in Warcraft 3. Throzen Trone and Counter-Strike. And I listen rock-band called “Aria”. Also I am busy with my self-education for programming on the computer. And I am a judoist.
So, I think my family is happy and friendly.