Goals • Discuss TV and viewing habits. • Extract information from a text. • Write film reviews. • Argue politely. “TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.” (The New York Times, 1939) Everywhere and at any time Have a look at the quotation from the The New York Times and the pictures above and discuss the following questions. a) Why do you think the average American family did not have time to sit down and watch TV in those days? b) What has changed since the journalist of the The New York Times wrote these lines? c) How have portable video players or smartphones changed our TV viewing habits? Collect personal media vocabulary Choose two forms of media that you personally use a lot. Make a word web for each of them. Use a dictionary if needed. 2 Word bank to spend more/less time for writing text messages than … • to prefer watching DVDs rather than watching TV • to read news online more often than … • to talk to someone in person/on the phone/with a chat programme • to use a computer/a laptop/a smartphone • to surf the internet • couch potato • cyberspace • episode • 3D • virtual reality • mobile phone • portable • weblog • text message W 3 59 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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