Lesson 30

27. What do you usually see on different television programmes? Match each type of programme on the left below with the correct item on the right.

1) nature films a) football, boxing, swimming etc.

2) quiz shows b) life in different countries

3) news and current affairs c) people trying to win prizes by answering questions.

4) soap operas d) advertisements for products.

5) commercials e) animals, fish, birds, flowers, plants etc.

6) travel films f) information about what’s happening in the world.

7) comedies g) jokes and funny situations.

8) educational programmes h) story of the daily life of a family.

9) sport i) information for pupils and students.

28. Which of the following programmes do you like? Use the following words.

relaxing boring depressing useful amusing sad exciting interesting scary

E.g. I find nature films interesting, because …

29. Put the correct word or phrase from the following list into the sentences below.

(turn on, look up, plan, record, turn off, switch)

1) I ______ a programme if I don’t like it.

2) I ______ good programmes on my video-recorder.

3) I ______ the television as soon as I get home.

4) I ______ to another channel if I’m bored.

5) I ______ my viewing very carefully.

6) I ______ the times of the programmes in the newspaper.

30. Answer the following questions:

1. What are your favourite types of programmes?

2. How do you watch television? (Do you plan carefully, record, and watch everything?)

3. How many hours do you watch TV every day?

4. What would you do without television?

5. Does television make good on you or bad?

6. How many channels have you got?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of television?

8. Is television a true revealing of facts or just an impact on our consciousness?

31. Ask your friends and then say what they answered according to the model:

Model: Ask your friend if he likes feature films.

– Do you like feature films?

–Yes, I do. I like feature films.

– He said that he liked feature films.

1) if he wants to see a new popular science film; 2) if he saw that Indian film; 3) if this short feature film is worth seeing; 4) if many famous actors played the main parts in the film; 5) if the film is based on the real life; 6) if he knows the names of Ukrainian artists.

32. Translate into English:

1. Вона сказала мені вчора, що раніше вже бачила цю стрічку. 2. Він сказав, що фільм буде чудовий. 3. Я знаю, що її дядько – актор і живе в Києві. 4. Він запитав мене, де я читала про цей фільм. 5. Ви не сказали мені, що йдете в кіно.