Radio, television, magazines, newspaper, mass media

• ______ appeared later than newspapers.

• Radio and ______ appeared after newspapers and magazines.

• You can easily carry ______ around.

• Because of ______ you can learn about what happening in the world.

• The first ______ was “Acta Diurna” – Roman handwriting newssheet.

7. Translate the following words and word-combinations as in the text:

Доступний, через, замість, увійти в, величезний, система освіти, опирається на, весь клас, завдання, досягнення, чільна форма.

8. Join the words:

a) Civilization b) Community c) Newssheet d) Exciting e) Entertaining f) Widespread g) Portability h) Comparison i) TV newscasts			1)порівняння 2)розповсюджений 3)листівка 4)теленовини 5)розважальний 6)цивілізація 7)захоплюючий 8)спільнота 9)портативність

9. Now divide into groups and find benefits and dangers of television.

Benefits of television	Dangers

• Television helps us to learn more about the world and to know and see many new things.

• Television can make us passive. We don’t have to think and our brains become lazy.

• It has increased the popularity of sports and arts.

• It takes time away from activities such s reading, conversation, and games.

• It is an enjoyable way to relax.

• It encourages us to buy things that we don’t need, and can make us unhappy with our own lives.

• 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.

10. Read the following information:

11. 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 won’t watch television at all.

I think television (1)….will disappear. We’ll 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. We‘ll 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’.