Reading. Read the text and do the task.
Watching TV is an interesting and fun activity.
The word television is often shortened to TV or
telly or tube. Looking back to the middle of the
20th
century, we can say television has totally
changed since then: the TV pictures were black
and white only and there only 1 to 5 channels.
Nowadays TV can show lots of different
programmes about a wide range of things. Some
examples of them are news, current affairs,
sitcoms, cartoons, dramas, sports, soap operas etc.
TV guides normally tell us what programmes are
shown on which channels, what day and time.
In Great Britain, children watch an average of
three to five hours of TV a day. While TV can
entertain, inform and keep children inside, it also
can affect them in different ways. Children can
learn from TV both useful and incorrect
information; they are influenced by thousands of
commercials. How to make TV a friend?
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1. Which of the words DO NOT USED as
shortening for 'television"?
a) telly b) teller c) tube
2. Television has changed a lot since
a) 1900-s b) 1970-s c) 1950-s
3. Which programmes can watch on TV
according to the text?
a) dramas, current affairs, cartoons, sports
b) films, news, sitcoms, soap opera
c) sitcoms, dramas, sports, films
4. British children watch an average of ... of
TV a day
a) five hours b) four hours c) three hours
5. Which of watching TV affects DOESN'T
MENTION in the text?
a) making vision worse b) entertaining
c)informing
