Prime Time 4, Coursebook

The way we used to Listening: The way we used to watch TV a) Listen to Aisha’s grandparents Margaret and Joshua talking about what watching television was like when they were young. Which picture fits which person? b) Listen again and tick the sentences that are true. 1. Margaret  She used to watch TV in a neighbour’s living room. Her family got their own TV later. Children and adults used to watch TV together. A special children’s programme was broadcast on Sundays. She can still remember some of the characters in the stories. He used to watch TV in a neighbour’s living room. He watched a children’s show with kids from the neighbourhood. The episodes of the children’s show were broadcast on Sundays. His family got their own TV later. There used to be only 4 TV channels in total. 2. Joshua c) Complete the following words from the listening. r g e : a TV or radio show. t o r c : to show a programme on television or radio. c n l : a television or radio station. p o d : one of the single parts into which a story is divided. d) Same or different? Talk to a partner and comment on some of the statements above. Was watching TV the first time the same for you or was it different? q995tu 5 1.16 2cr2ax A B I can’t remember watching TV for the first time. I can’t imagine … For me it was totally different … 42 5 Unit Television and streaming forty-two Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv