Prime Time 4, Workbook

l = This is easy m = This is okay n = This is difficult Check out Mind map: History of television Complete the words (in different word forms) connected to the history of television. Look at the text on page 40 of your coursebook for help. Speaking and writing: TV – good or bad? a) Read the beginning of Roald Dahl’s poem “Television”. 8 l m n I can complete words (in different word forms) on a topic. HISTORY OF TELEVISION ADJECTIVES to w a t c h to e v p m c h a l e c t o v a i b a m to v e t to h w VERBS NOUNS e e v s n s in t n in t r w 9 Tip You don’t need to understand every word to understand the meaning of the poem. T The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don’t install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we’ve been, We’ve watched them gaping 1 at the screen. They loll 2 and slop and lounge about 3 , And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone’s place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare and stare and sit Until they’re hypnotised by it, Until they’re absolutely drunk With all that shocking ghastly 4 junk. […] 1 gaping – starren, glotzen 2 to loll – lümmeln 3 to slop and lounge about – herumhängen, -lümmeln 4 ghastly – grässlich b) Do you agree with what he says about children watching TV? Write 3 sentences. I agree with Roald Dahl that children who watch TV look like … I disagree with Roald Dahl, I don’t think that watching TV makes children … l m n I can give my opinion on a piece of literature. 31 Television and streaming 5 Unit thirty-one Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv