Reading

CONTENTS

Introduce

Vocabulary

Exercises

Listening

Work in pairs and answer some

following questions

1. What kinds of TV programs are there

in your country?

2. Give an example for each type of TV program ?

3. What your favorite TV programs are

and why ?

Discussion

A soap opera

A sitcom

A quiz show

A documentary

Reality

Current affairs

Some types of American TV programs

New vocabulary

A long-running TV series

About the imaginary lives of a group of people

Often shown every day or three or four times a week.

A soap opera

A sitcom A situation

comedy

A weekly TV series

A particular group of characters deal with an ongoing situation in a humorous way.

A quiz show

Involving a quiz, sometimes with prizes

A documentary

A program that deals with real-life stories in an informative way.

Reality TV A TV program in which ordinary people are put in situations that make interesting viewing.

Current affairsA type of news program that investigates a current political or social issue.

Extended vocabulary

Long-running (a) that has been continuing for a long time.

Series (n): group of related things, events,…

Episode (n): one part of a story that is broadcast on television or radio in several parts.

Character (n) : all the qualities and features that make a person, groups of people different from others.

Rating: (n) figures showing the popularity of television programs.

ExercisesI- Fill in each gap with missing letters to make meaningful words based on the definition on the right.

1. S_t_o_.

2. R_a_i_y.

3.E_i_o_e.

4. V_e_e_s.

5. D_c_m_n_a_y.

a. Situation comedy

b. Something actually seen or experienced.

c. One of a story on television.

d. Persons who watch television.

e. Television program that gives information and facts.

II- Match a word from the first part of the text in A with a similar word in B.

the small screen

trials

trendy

encountered

grieving

sought

A

looked for

met

felling deep sadness

difficulties

television

fashionable

B

Listening Listen to the song “forever friends” and fill in the missing word in the lyric:

I (1)________ I can love

You give me your loving (2)_________I believe in what we are

I don't know where I would be

(3)_______ staying with me

Sometimes, I'm lost in (4)________

You will take me all the way, I'm not (5)_________

Oh, you and me, hand in hand

To everywhere (6)_________

Be my friend, oh friend

We are (7)_________ friends

Oh (8)________, you give me all the love I (9)__________

You are the(10) _________ one.

Answer key

I-

1. Reality

2. Sitcom

3. Episode

4. Viewers

5.documentary

1. Believe

2. Care

3. Without

4. Misery

5. Afraid

6. Amazing

7. Forever

8. Baby

9. Need

10. Only

LISTENING