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Impact of Television on Life

Television can enhance knowledge and provide benefits to the elderly and non-native speakers, but it also has significant drawbacks. Excessive viewing can lead to poor concentration, dissatisfaction with real life, and increased violence among children. Studies indicate that prolonged exposure to television negatively impacts attention spans and can distort perceptions of reality.

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Impact of Television on Life

Television can enhance knowledge and provide benefits to the elderly and non-native speakers, but it also has significant drawbacks. Excessive viewing can lead to poor concentration, dissatisfaction with real life, and increased violence among children. Studies indicate that prolonged exposure to television negatively impacts attention spans and can distort perceptions of reality.

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NOTE MAKING AND SUMMARISING ASSIGNMENT

1. How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to


people who carefully choose the shows that they watch.
Television can increase our knowledge of the outside world;
there are high quality programmes that help us understand
many fields of study, science, medicine, the different arts and so
on. Moreover, television benefits very old people, who can’t
leave the house, as well as patients in hospitals. It also offers
non-native speakers the advantage of daily informal language
practice. They can increase their vocabulary and practice
listening.

2. On the other hand, there are several serious disadvantages of


television. Of course, it provides us with a pleasant way to relax
and spend our free time, but in some countries people watch
television for an average of six hours or more a day. Many
children stare at the TV screen for more hours a day than they
spend on anything else, including studying and sleeping. It’s
clear that TV has a powerful influence on their lives and that its
influence is often negative.
3. Recent studies show that after only thirty seconds of
television viewing, a person’s brain ‘relaxes’ the same way that
it does just before the person falls asleep. Another effect of
television on the human brain is that it seems to cause poor
concentration. Children who view a lot of television can often
concentrate on a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes. They
can pay attention only for the amount of time between
commercials.
4. Another disadvantage is that television often causes people to
become dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life does not seem
so exciting to these people. To many people, television becomes
more real than reality and their own lives seem boring. Also,
many people get upset or depressed when they can’t solve
problems in real life as quickly as television actors seem to.
5. Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven
thousand murders on the T.V. He or she begins to believe that
there is nothing strange about fights, killings and other kinds of
violence. Many studies show that people become more violent
after viewing certain programs. They may even do the things
that they see in a violent show.
NOTE MAKING AND SUMMARISING ASSIGNMENT

(a) One the basis of your reading of the above passage, make
notes on it using headings and subheadings. Use recognizable
abbreviations (minimum four) and a format you consider
suitable. Supply a suitable title to it. (5)

(b) Make a summary of the above passage in about 80 words.


(3)

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