British and Ukrainian Television

                                                                Form 7

British and Ukrainian Television

                          

  Aims and purposes of the lesson:

          practical
• to activate the lexical material on the topic and familiarize with new words
• to develop listening, reading, speaking and writing  skills 
• practice in using of new words in oral speech and in writing
• to develop the skills of dialogical speech 
• to teach to talk about the disadvantages and advantages of  television

• to widen pupils knowledge to the topic

educational
• to deepen the knowledge of students about the television
• to expand students ' knowledge about the positive and negative sides of  TV

• to respect other cultures 

developing
• to develop skills of social competence
• to develop linguistic supposition, and speech reaction
• to develop skills of working in pairs 
• to develop skills of independent work with a dictionary
Equipment:  a computer, a CD, pictures, cards, stripes of the dialogue, a  newspaper. 

PROCEDURE:

1.Greeting. Introduction of the topic of the lesson

 Good morning! How are you getting on?

Today we’ll continue to speak about the mass media and  I want you to help me to determine the topic of today’s lesson. Think a little and tell me what things  helps us to be well-informed?

P.1: Newspapers

P.2: Radio

P.3: Magazines                                        

P.4: Television

Yes, you are right. They give us information every day, but today we’ll speak about only television.

By the end of the lesson you are to get a great deal of  new information about the television and levels of its popularity. Let’s begin with warming-up!

2. Warming-up:

a) Match the words and their definitions.

A serial to broadcast an advert viewers

to show on TV people who watch TV consists  of several or many parts a short clip telling us about the advantages of things

b) Students are given a definition of a word and they have to find what word is.

A person who sings on the stage is	singer
A play in which part of the story is sung to music	a musical
Clothes the actors wear on the stage	costumes
Scenery,buildings, furniture on the  stage or in a studio are called…	sets
Film showing some aspects of real human or social activity…	documentary
Cinema film, made by photographing series of drawing	animated cartoon
People how watch a play at the theatre	the audience

3. Listening.

Pre-listening  activities:

         You will hear three opinions. What will they about? Why do you think so?

While-listening activities:

1. Find out which of these belongs to a teacher, a pupil, and a politician.

2. What’s their opinion on the following? Fill in the chart.

	First speaker	Second speaker	Third speaker
Television (in general)
Channels
Broadcasting
Variety
Quality
Different programmes
Adverts

   Post-listening activities:

What is your opinion? Try to prove it.

1) Television is a great way to learn. It’s easier than reading a book. I wish we could watch more television at school. But on the whole, most telly programmes are rubbish, too serious. Television should be entertaining, you know, fun. I wish there are more police shows and sports. And more adverts, too.

2) Television is the best in the world. We have a lot of variety and good quality. We try to entertain and educate. That’s why so many television programmes are exported. We need more channels and more broadcasting. Up to 20 hours a day, for example.

         3) The kids come home and turn on the box. Parents have no control. And some of   the programmes are really violent. There are terrible problems with reading and writing. Kids don’t read books any more. They spend a lot of time just sitting and watching the telly.

4. Vocabulary

 Do know the words of the topic? Look at the stripe and read the word. (Broadcasting, documentary, the audience, quality, etc.)

 Are you ready to play a game “Newspaper Bash”.  So, let’s play.

5. Reading

Pre-reading activities:

         Look at the text and guess what it is about.

I’ll divide you into two groups. You should  read the text ” TV or not TV”.

            While-reading activities:

 The task for the first  group  is to copy out the arguments for TV; for the second group is to copy out the arguments against TV.

Text ” TV or not TV”

Television plays a very important role in people’s lives. It’s a wonderful source of information and one of the best ways to spend free time. Television viewing is the most popular leisure pastime. It’s not surprising, because TV channels show a great variety of programmes: documentaries and current affairs, feature films and comedies, soaps and police series, concerts and talk shows. Television is a reflection of the modern world. It gives you an opportunity to travel all over the world, to see different people and to learn about their customs and traditions. Television keeps you informed about the rest of the world. It also helps to escape from our everyday problems. A lot of people usually relax watching soaps. Their story lines are entertaining, but often unbelievable. I don’t think that they show life realistically. But for  many people, the characters in the TV serial have become more important than real people. Of course, not everything shown on TV is made in good taste. There are badly-written programmes that contain unnecessary bad language and violence. Another thing I would like to complain about is the amount of smoking in the films that are shown on TV. Smoking is often shown as a very “cool” thing to do, making young people take up smoking themselves. Many people admit that the quality of television could be better. One reason for the poor quality of programmes is advertising. Not all people like watching commercials. They find ads silly and boring. But I am not against commercials on TV, because television companies get most of their money from advertising. Some people say that television is a terrible waste of time. Of course, there are TV addicts who can’t drag themselves away from the box. But if we watch TV for an hour a day, to find out what is happening in the world or to relax, then television is really useful. So I think we should not blame the TV for the bad effects it has. We must know how to make the best use of it.

                Let’s check up what you have done. 

Post-reading activities:
 Add your own reasons for positive and negative sides of television.

6. Speaking activities.

a) Make up a dialogue.

 You’ve got a lot of stripes. Your task is to make up a dialogue.                       Read it and act. Work in pairs.

What’s on television tonight?

Jack: Hello, Mum... I’m at home!

Mum: Hello, Jack. Are you tired, dear?

Jack: Yes, I’m. What’s the time?

Mum: It’s a quarter past six.

Jack: Oh, it’s late? What’s on television tonight?

Mum: There is a good musical programme  at a quarter past eight.

Jack: Yes... and there is a good programme after the news.

Mum: We’ll we watch it? It’s my favourite soap opera.

Jack: Oh, no! I can’t watch it after all. There is a football match on BBC-2 at the same time.

Mum: But, Jack, I would love to see the soap opera.

Jack: OK, Mum. I’ll go and watch the match at my granny’s.

b) Do you like to watch TV? What is your favourite channels, programmes, films. Tell about them and be ready to give some advice to our TV viewers.

c)  Сomment on the following quotation: 

“All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?”(Nicholas Johnson)

Try to use the phrases expressing opinions:

             I suppose 

              In my opinion 

             To my mind 

              I personally think 

              You could be right, but I… 

              I am sorry, but I can’t agree with you 

              Yes, I agree with you, but on the other hand… 

              I am afraid I’m not of the same opinion

7. Writing activities.

 Write  down   TV is assotiated with…

channel, programme, news, advertising, current affairs, information, soap opera, sport, feature film, sitcom, cartoon, adventure film

8.  Summary:

a) Homework:

Write  down the composition ”Television in my life”, according to the plan:

1. Introduction. State the problem.
2. Arguments for.
3. Arguments against.
4. Conclusion.

b) Summing-up: What new information did you find out today? What task did you like most? Did you enjoy working at the lesson?

Your marks for the lesson are… Good – bye! See you soon!