时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:情景英语口语100主题


英语课
063 television

Words
Programme channel tv news documentary comedy horror film remote control tv set educational
Entertainment advertisement switch over/on/off volume cartoon satellite tv cable tv chat show drama series serial 1 soap opera actor/actress character episode interview couch potato quiz show
Presenter 2 current affairs repeats highlights viewers

Phrases
Watch a programme
Change channel
Watch…live on TV
Appear on a chat show
Use the remote control
Interview a celebrity 3
Show highlights/ a new clip

Beginner
A: do you think children watch too much tv?
B: I only allow my child to watch up to an hour a day. I don’t think that tv is bad for kids. I think that kids should be active and not become couch potaoes.
A: perhaps I should impose a limit on how much tv my kids can watch. They don’t do much else in their free time. At least they always do their homework first.
B: if you decide to put a limit on the amount of tv they can watch, remember to have something else for them to do. If you don’t, they’ll get bored and misbehave.
A: they could go out and play with their friends.
B; sure. You could talk to other parents in your neighbourhood and plan it so that all the kids are free at the same time.
A: perhaps I could ask my husband to teach them foot ball or some thing. He watches too much tv too.
B: that’s a good idea. Remember that if the parents watch too much tv, the kids will probably follow suit.

Intermediate
A: what kinds of tv programmes do you enjoy watching?
B: I like current affairs programmes and documentaries, especially wildlife ones. How about you?
A: I like those kinds of programmes too. They’re very informative 4. I think that many people underrate the education value of tv.
B: I agree. People often criticize tv for showing too much sex and violence.
A; yeah. And that’s so funny because most people prefer watching sex and violence to watching something more educational!
B: right. You can’t blame the tv stations for showing popular kinds of programmes. They need to make money from advertisements shown during and between programmes.
A: in my country, there’s a time limit on the advertisements that can be shown. I think it’s about six minutes per hour.
B: that’s great idea. But don’t the tv station lose a lot of money because of that?
A; no. they don’t. they simply charge higher prices at peak times. Is there no limit on the amount of advertisements that can be shown on tv in your country?
B: not as far as I know. We have so many advertisements . the interruptions are unbearable 5 sometimes! That’s one reason that many people prefer satellite or cable tv, where you pay a fixed 6 amount each month.
A: some people have satellite and cable tv in my country, but people don’t seem to keen to pay for their tv programmes. Besides, the terrestrial channels offer a good range of programmes.
B: well, there’s a wildlife documentary on tv in a few minutes. Shall we?

1 serial
n.连本影片,连本电视节目;adj.连续的
  • A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
  • Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗?
2 presenter
n.(电视、广播的)主持人,赠与者
  • Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
  • The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。
3 celebrity
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
4 informative
adj.提供资料的,增进知识的
  • The adverts are not very informative.这些广告并没有包含太多有用信息。
  • This intriguing book is both thoughtful and informative.这本引人入胜的书既有思想性又富知识性。
5 unbearable
adj.不能容忍的;忍受不住的
  • It is unbearable to be always on thorns.老是处于焦虑不安的情况中是受不了的。
  • The more he thought of it the more unbearable it became.他越想越觉得无法忍受。
6 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
学英语单词
abnormal task termination
Alpha monitor
anemia of lead poisoning
anti-friction bearing
Asm.
at priority call
atomic nuclear physics
attending entering appearance
autem cacklers
Ban Nong Kut
Bethe-hole coupler
bilivistam
brown bats
Burrus
caplight
check and read
clinandrial
coccygomimus nipponicus
colored map
component life
coronary artery disease
DECNET
definited spare parts list
defrosing pipe
divisome
dominant detail
double deck shaker
DSEA
editorializer
electronic prescribing
epidemic toxicology
eulerian strain tensor
exosyndrome
extended display processor instruction set
ferri filum
filetabs
fiyah
FNEA
gas-flow interferometry
general economic geography
greiff
Grosser Feldberg
halyard bend
hemispherical head
high voltage oscilloscope
Ikang
indirect standard
individual template
iron-disilicide
Khenifra, Prov.de
laticiferous
laugh away
losslessness
Maritime Industry Law
mariucci
Marshall stiffness
mealybug
metastatogenesis
moustachioed
multiple radio source
Nationalbank
nerdery
nitrocarburizing gas
Northwest Cay
oerter
Oncicola
Palladic-platinum
passion feeling
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
phoeophorbide
Porro's operation
pre-qualify
prosopopey
provisional agreement
pseudophacopteron album
quadriplanar point coordinates
retransfects
reusings
rotary inverter
Rubio, Sa.de
rumker
safety trip beam
satellite-landing guidance
sheep botflies
siphonosteles
spin flipping
sproutling
stageless
steeved
stocking cap
taeniodera nigricollis viridula
TAPI
Terektinskiy Khrebet
turn rate
unbiased variance
unbundled price
utility district
verge staffs
vialidon
Willis bite gauge
wipe joint
Wolffia globosa