Look into the following statements and prove your own point of view

· Television broadens viewers’ mind.

· TV is killing the habit of reading.

· Business is more important than art.

· Film is a way for some viewers to escape their own realities.

· For some viewers, film is regarded as an art form, rather than as mass entertainment.

· From a cultural awareness perspective, the Internet has both an advantage and a liability.

· Radio, cinema and television contribute sufficiently to the cultural needs of our contemporaries.

· The theatre is losing its significance in the social life of people.

· The theatre id dying.

· The only music, which affects us positively, is music that we like.

· Certain types of music can be harmful.

· Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

7.3. Surf on the Web to find information on Hollywood. What kind of sites do they offer? Which do you like most?

Culture on the Internet

http://www.fathom.com/course/10701053/sessions.html

http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html

http://www.theatrehistory.com

http://www.cwu.edu/-rbinsos/ppages/resources/Theatre-History/

http://www.essentialsofmusic.com

http://www.geocities.com/papandrew

http://www.arthistoryguide.com

http://www.library.ubc.ca/finearts/AHT_FINE.html

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/history-architecture/index.html

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/

Make up a report on new trends in culture.