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Television.

More and more new machines are appearing nowadays and people use them everywhere. One of the greatest advances in modern technology has been the invention of TV. It goes without saying that television plays a very important part in people’s lives. It’s a wonderful source of information and one of the best ways to spend free time and not to feel bored.

Television viewing is by far the most popular leisure pastime. For example, in Britain over 99 per cent of British homes have a TV, and the average person watches “the box” 26 hours a week. Yet no less important is the sheer amount of time that Americans spend watching TV. Kids typically spend three hours a day in front of the tube, and adults even more. On average, Americans watch TV the equivalent of 56 days -- nonstop -- per year.

There are a lot of channels in Colombia, which show all kind of programmes: news, sports, talk shows, quizzes, documentaries, feature films, game shows, children’s programmes, soaps and police series, cartoons, comedies and concerts. Thanks to satellites, TV viewers can increase their options and watch TV from different countries. Conventional television has to struggle to retain its audience, as people switch over to cable viewing, satellite TV, or renting video cassettes.

Television is a reflection of the modern world. It gives you an opportunity to travel all over the world, to see different people and learn about their customs and traditions. Television keeps you informed about the rest of the world. And of course, it helps you to escape from everyday problems.

A lot of people usually relax watching soaps – TV serials which dramatize characters of their daily life. Their story lines are entertaining, but often unbelievable. Rarely, they show life realistically; but to many people, the characters, in the weekly TV serial shows, have become more important than real people. Other people prefer watching different quizz shows. To this class belongs, one of the most watched by them, is “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” It is shown on Saturdays at night, and lasts about an hour. The programme is now hosted by Pablo La Serna. It is a game show where the players are asked different questions. If the answers are correct, the participants get a lot of money. Each person, weekly, can win until eighty thousands of dollars. But if they are wrong, they lose everything. People enjoy watching this programme, because the questions are always very interesting. Besides, it’s a perfect way to be in the know about everything. Of course, not everything shown on TV is made in good taste. There are badly-written programmes which contain unnecessary bad language, morbid sex and violence. The strange thing is that neither politicians nor producers like to admit that watching violence on TV leads to greater violence on the streets. Many people admit that the quality of television could be better. They would prefer to see fewer soap and crime series, and more history, drama, and science.
One reason for the poor quality of programmes is advertising. Not all people like watching commercials. They find advertisements silly and boring. On the one hand, sometimes ads help people choose the best products and get the best value for their money. But on the other hand, they show life unrealistically and give false information. Besides, in adverts all people seem to be happy consumers, all kids seem to be healthy and well off. But this is not true at all. What is more, the people find it very annoying when a film stops at the most interesting moment.
Another thing is the amount of smoking in the films that are shown on TV. Smoking is often shown as a very “cool” thing to do – making young people much more likely to copy what they see, and take up smoking themselves. Some people say that television is a terrible waste of time. Of course, there are TV addicts who can’t drag themselves away from the box. They watch TV for hours without choosing programmes, and spend time in front of television which they could spend talking to their friends and family. In this case, television makes them really waste time. But on the contrary, if we watch TV for an hour a day, to find out what is happening in the world or to relax, then television is really useful. In short, television does have its good points. Many of the broadcast programmes are educational and can help with schoolwork. A good soap-serie or a comedy is a source of relaxation for many people. Television also provides jobs for thousands of them.Doctors, around the world think that we are literally ourselves sick, and television plays a large role in this downward spiral. Most criticism of television has focused on content--on the sex, violence and cynically degraded sensibility that pervade the medium and therefore our homes. TV viewing is the principal source of inactivity, and inactivity has become a worldwide problem. It is related to obesity, arterial coronary disease and type 2 diabetes, which are becoming international norms.

Television

There is no definite answer to the question whether TV Watching does good or causes damage to the people. Opinions differ. In this class throgouth audio recording and postcasting each student will express his point of view and will discuss the others ones.