4. Creative understanding and application

Task 1. Choose any of these situations and make up a conversation. Be creative.

1. Your ten-year-old son wants to watch "X Files ". What arguments would you use to talk him out of it?

2. A TV journalist is interviewing a TV censor asking about what measures should be taken to mitigate the adverse influence of screen violence.

3. Two teenagers are plotting a robbery borrowing their plan from a criminal TV series.

4. Two mothers are discussing the TV-viewing habits of their children.

5. A criminal expert is interviewed by a TV correspondent about the impact of TV and video films on juvenile delinquency.

Task 2. Prepare a TV Guide which may satisfy your taste. Be ready to present it.

Task 3. Prepare a role-play “TV's disastrous impact on children”. Organize it in a form of a talk show. These are the roles:

• Professor of Communication Neil Postman;

• psychologist;

• pediatrician;

• TV producer of entertaining programmes;

• TV producer of educational programmes;

• parent;

• grandparent;

• teenager;

• schoolteacher;

• viewer;

• celebrity;

• host of the talk show.

Task 4. Do you suffer from "intellectual guilt" about how much TV you watch? Write an essay in which you express your feelings about the quantity and quality of TV that you watch.

Task 5.Watch a film and write a review of this picture. Be ready to discuss it orally. Use the plan given in Unit 7, Level 4, Task 3.

ROLE OF CINEMA, THEATRE, TELEVISION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

UNIT 9

Students should know:

• topical vocabulary of this unit.

Students should be able to:

• match definitions with words from the topical vocabulary;

• match words to make word combinations;

• give English equivalents to the words from the topical vocabulary;

• give definitions to the words from the topical vocabulary;

• express their own opinion using a logical-syntactic scheme;

• express the author’s attitude towards the content of a text;

• express their own agreement or disagreement with a statement;

• listen to a recording for understanding its details;

• write an essay on a given situation;

• write a review of a watched film;

• make up a written speech on a suggested situation in a form of a letter.

1. Recognition, memorization, reproduction

Task 1. Read these words paying attention to their pronunciation, find Russian equivalents and memorize in order to use them in your speech.

have an impact on

demand consideration

be mesmerized

demonstrate convincingly

be requited

visual image

supremacy, n

realm of story

gratuitous evidence

sheer quantity

aesthetic force

propaganda purpose

exploit, v

vulnerable, adj

awake the mind

steal the limelight

aesthetic purification

be embarrassed by smth

hedonism, n

mass audience

responsive, adj

trivial, adj

tawdry, adj

be rescued from smth

rewarding, adj

interfere, v

be addicted to smth

keep pace with

obtain, v

become utterly dependent

be content with

cut off from the real world

be glued to smth