Think Before You Start - Discuss

How does watching TV affect you?

How can watching TV be helpful?

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Quick-Fire Questions

  1. How much TV do you watch, what kinds of programmes, and why?
  2. What is your favourite TV programme, and why?
  3. Should children watch TV at all, and why?
  4. If you stopped watching TV, what would you do with the spare time?

Key Words -
Can you use them in a sentence?

Television: a device with a screen for watching entertainment and educational programmes and films.

Educational: intended or designed to provide education.

Be The Teacher -
Fix this broken sentence!

scientists and goverments has reccomended that children should spend a maximum off two hours per day looking at screens.

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Imagine you are entering a debate on this topic: “Television is dangerous!” What do you think people might say?

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