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…… a TV programme where people can get points by answering questions or do things2. …… a TV that gives facts or information about a subject.[r]
(1)UNIT 7: TELEVISION Review: - Vocabulary related to television programme
- Question words
I Choose the right word from the box for each description below MC game show sitcom weather forecast cartoon quiz show animal programme educational programme news headlines documentary comedy drama
1 …… an amusing play or film with a happy ending
2 …… a funny TV show in which the same characters appear in each programme in a different story
3 …… a TV programme where people can get points by answering questions or things …… a TV that gives facts or information about a subject
5……… a play for the theatre, television or radio
6 …… a TV programme to give the description of the weather for the next few days
7 …… a competition on TV in which people try to answer questions to test their knowledge 8…… a TV programme telling us about the life of birds, elephants, tigers, lions and so on 9……… a TV programme for schools and students
10 …… the important items of news read on TV
11 …… a person who introduces guests at the rights time at an important events 12 …… a programme that tells a story by using moving pictures
II READING
1 Read the passage and answer the questions
Today, there is a TV set in nearly every home People watch TV every day, and some people watch it from morning and night Americans watch TV about 35 hours a week But is television good or bad for you? People have different answers Some say that there is a lot of violence on TV today, the programmes are terrible and people not get any exercise because they only sit and watch TV Others think that TV programmes bring news from around the world, help you learn many useful things, especially children Thanks to television, people learn about life in other country, and helps people relax after a long day of hard work
1 Is television very popular nowadays? Why? How many hours Americans watch TV a day? Why don’t some people like watching television? What does television bring to you?
5 What you learn from television?
2 Read and the task below
Television enables us to see things in distant places It is indeed one of the most wonderful things that man has ever invented
(2)Short films based on popular stories are often showed which entertain millions of people all over the world
In some countries television is used to teach pupils and students many useful lessons Students who can not go to school because of transport or other problems are taught all their lessons at home through television
As television appears to the eye instead of the ear People enjoy watching more that listening to the radio Listening requires knowledge of many things, but what we see with our eyes explains that itself
1 What is television considered as? What we learn through television? What are short films based on?
4 What people prefer, watching or listening?
5 How can students obtain knowledge if they cannot go to school? What is the difference between listening and watching?
Read again and complete the sentences:
1 Television allows us to see things in ……… places
2 Television shows pictures taken in parts of the world for the purpose of ………… and …… Millions people around the world are ……… by films based on famous stories
4 Television appears to the eye while ……… appears to the ear
5 It is easy to understand knowledge on TV as what people see can …………itself There is no doubt that television will keep being ……… for a long time
3 Read and the task below.
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
One of the most popular quiz programmes on television in the world is called Who wants to be a
millionaire? In Britain, the quiz master is Chris Tarrant He asks the contestants fifteen questions The
first questions are easy but later they are more difficult If you answer the fourteenth question correctly, you can win £500.000 You can win a million pounds if you can answer the last question
All the questions on Who wants to be a millionaire? are multiple- choice questions After you hear the questions, you see four answers Only one answer is correct You have to choose the correct answer If you don’t know the answer to a question, there are three ways you can get help: you can ask the quizmaster to take away two wrong answers; you can ask the studio audience which answer is right; or you can telephone a friend and ask for help You can only these things once Very few people win the million pounds The first person who won a million pounds one year after the performance started
Today Who wants to be a millionaire? can be seen in more than 100 countries and is now the world’s most popular quiz programme
Find the words in the text with these meaning.
1 A TV programme where people ask and answer questions: The person who asks the questions:
(3)4 The people who watch the programme in the studio:
Answer the questions:
1 Who is the quizmaster in Britain?
2 How many questions you have to answer? How much you win for the fourteenth question? How many ways can you get help?