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The document discusses both the benefits and dangers of television. Some key benefits are that television helps people learn about the world, increases awareness of global issues, and is an enjoyable way to relax. However, television can also make people passive, take away from other activities, and encourage unnecessary purchasing. Long-term television watching can negatively impact brain function and make people unhappy with their own lives.

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Mass Media Worksheet

The document discusses both the benefits and dangers of television. Some key benefits are that television helps people learn about the world, increases awareness of global issues, and is an enjoyable way to relax. However, television can also make people passive, take away from other activities, and encourage unnecessary purchasing. Long-term television watching can negatively impact brain function and make people unhappy with their own lives.

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Find benefits and dangers of television.

Benefits of television

Dangers

1. Television helps us to learn more about the world and to know and see many
new things.
2. Television can make us passive. We dont have to think and our brains
become lazy.
3. It has increased the popularity of sports and arts.
4. It takes time away from activities such s reading, conversation, and games.
5. It is an enjoyable way to relax.
6. It encourages us to buy things that we dont need, and can make us unhappy
with our own lives.
7. It has made us aware of our global responsibilities. In 1985, for example, 1.5
billion people in 147 countries watched TV pop concert and helped to collect
more than $100 million for people in Africa.

Read the passage about future of television and complete the text with
the words from the box.

THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION


In future, we probably wont watch television at all.
I think television (1).will disappear. Well use a computer and choose the programs that we
want to watch. (2) will then get the program from another computer, probably on the other
side of the world. Well be able to tell the computer what type of (3) .we like (for example,
types of films, (4)., documentaries, etc.) and the computer will search for those programs and
then give us a (5) to choose from. The pictures that we see will also be different. They will be
(6).. We will be able to look around the pictures that we see.

The computer, channels, holographic, programs, music, menu.

Your task is to match the words and their definitions.


Television
Newspaper
The Internet
Radio

1. a paper printed and sold usually daily or weekly with news, advertisements
etc.;
2. broadcasting programmes for people to listen to;
3. broadcasting programmes (the news, plays, advertisements, shows, etc.) for
people to watch on their television sets;
4. a way to communicate with your partner who might be a thousand miles
away using the computer (e-mails).

THE EFFECTS OF MASS-MEDIA

Positive

Negative

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