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Well-being encompasses physical, mental, emotional, and social health factors, closely linked to happiness and life satisfaction. Key factors enhancing well-being include strong friendships, fulfilling careers, financial stability, exercise, nutrition, and a positive outlook. While money can improve living conditions, personal relationships have the most significant impact on well-being, making it essential for governments to measure and understand population well-being for effective policy-making.

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Impact of Television on Life

Well-being encompasses physical, mental, emotional, and social health factors, closely linked to happiness and life satisfaction. Key factors enhancing well-being include strong friendships, fulfilling careers, financial stability, exercise, nutrition, and a positive outlook. While money can improve living conditions, personal relationships have the most significant impact on well-being, making it essential for governments to measure and understand population well-being for effective policy-making.

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MAXFORT SCHOOL ROHINI

CLASS XI
NOTE MAKING
Read the following passage:
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 practise 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 TV.
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
programmes. They may even do the things that they see in a violent show.
(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)

Ans
Advantages and Disadvantages of Watching Television
1. Benefits
1.1 increases know.
1.1.1 of outside world
1.1.2 science
1.1.3 medicine
1.1.4 diff. Arts
1.2 recreation for old ppl. & patients
1.3 informal lang. practice
1.4 increases vocab. & helps practise listening
2. Disadvantages
2.1 ppl. watch for 6 hrs. or more
2.2 students stare at screen for hrs.
2.3 negative influence
2.4 effect on human brain
2.4.1 poor conc. 3. Impact
3.1 feels life not very exciting
3.2 TV more real, life seems boring
3.3 depression when can’t solve problems
4. Violence shown on TV
4.1 children become violent
4.2 killings seem normal
Key to Abbreviations
Abbreviations Words

ppl. People

know. Knowledge

& And

diff. different

Summary
Advantages and Disadvantages of Watching Television
Watching television increases knowledge of the outside world, science, medicine and
different arts. It helps old people and patients to recreate. It assists in informal language
practice, improving vocabulary and practise listening. However, watching television for
more than six hours and staring on screens has a negative influence on students. It affects
the human brain and leads to poor concentration. Television makes life boring and nothing
feels exciting. People can feel depressed when they are unable to solve problems as quickly
as actors do. Television normalises violence which can make children violent.

QUESTION FOR PRACTICE

Q2. Read the passage given below:


1. Well-being is not just the absence of disease or illness. It is a complex combination of a
person’s physical, mental, emotional and social health factors. Well-being is strongly linked
to happiness and life satisfaction. In short, it could be described as how one feels about
oneself and one’s life. Every aspect of one’s life influences the state of one’s well-being.
Researchers investigating happiness have found the following factors which enhance a
person’s well-being : network of close friends, enjoyable and fulfilling career, enough money,
regular exercise, nutritious diet, sufficient sleep, fun hobbies and leisure pursuits, healthy
self-esteem, optimistic outlook and so on.

2. The factors that influence one’s well-being are interrelated. For example, a job provides
not just money but purpose, goals, friendships and a sense of belonging. Some factors also
make up for the lack of others; for example, a good marriage can compensate for a lack of
friendship, while religious beliefs may help a person to accept physical illness. Money is linked
to well-being, because having enough money improves living conditions and increases social
status. But various international studies have shown that it is the quality of our personal
relationships, not the size of our bank balance, which has the greatest effect on our state of
well-being. Believing that money is the key to happiness can also harm a person’s well-being.

3. Understanding the well-being of the population is very important. Measuring well-being,


however, in a population is difficult because the interpretation of well-being is so subjective
— how one feels about peoples’ lives largely depends on the way one sees it. Like the saying
goes: ‘one person’s problem is another person’s challenge.’

4. Keeping track of a population’s well-being helps governments to decide on particular


policies. It also acts as an indicator for various population trends. For example, knowing the
average weekly income of a population helps to set the ‘poverty line’, which may then
influence decisions on social welfare reforms. Well-being can be achieved through a variety
of means. Some are as follows : developing and maintaining strong relationships with family
and friends, making regular time available for social contact, trying to find work that is
enjoyable and rewarding, rather than just working for the best pay, eating healthy, nutritious
foods, doing regular physical activity, involving oneself in activities that interest the people,
joining in local organisations or clubs that appeal, setting achievable goals and working
towards them and trying to be optimistic and enjoying each day.

(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using recognizable
abbreviations (minimum four), wherever necessary. Use a format you consider suitable.
Give it a suitable title also. (5)
(b) Write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words. (3)

Common questions

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Understanding well-being is inherently subjective as it largely depends on individual perception. What one person sees as a problem could be viewed as a challenge by another, affecting how they interpret their quality of life. This subjectivity makes measuring well-being difficult, as it is influenced by personal outlooks on happiness and satisfaction rather than objective criteria .

Television serves as an educational tool by providing access to quality programming that increases knowledge in fields such as science, medicine, and arts. It offers non-native speakers daily exposure to informal language practice, aiding in vocabulary and listening skills development. For elderly people and patients unable to leave home, it provides recreation and informational content .

Prolonged television exposure can lead to poor concentration levels and brain relaxation similar to pre-sleep states, indicating decreased alertness. This may impair mental health by fostering dissatisfaction with real life, potentially leading to depression when individuals cannot solve problems as swiftly as portrayed on television. Television's portrayal of violence can also desensitize viewers, particularly children, to aggressive behaviors .

Well-being is not merely the absence of disease; it is a complex combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social health factors. It is linked to happiness and life satisfaction, encompassing how one feels about oneself and one’s life. Factors such as having a network of friends, a fulfilling career, sufficient finances, regular exercise, and an optimistic outlook contribute to one's well-being .

Television affects a person's brain activity by causing it to 'relax' similarly to how it does right before falling asleep after only thirty seconds of viewing . Additionally, children who watch substantial amounts of television often display poor concentration, being able to focus on a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes, typically just the time span between commercials .

Strong personal relationships are pivotal to an individual's well-being. They provide emotional support, a sense of belonging, and can compensate for other deficits in life. The article emphasizes that social connections have a greater impact on well-being than financial wealth. A fulfilling personal life can lead to increased happiness and life satisfaction, with relationships offering purpose and reducing stress .

Television can distort cultural perceptions and self-image by making real life seem less exciting compared to the scenarios depicted in shows. This can lead to dissatisfaction with one's own life as viewers compare their experiences to the idealized versions on TV. It can also precipitate depression when individuals cannot resolve real-life problems as quickly as characters seem to on screen .

Children exposed to violence on television may come to view such behavior as normal. The passage notes that by age fourteen, children have viewed thousands of murders on TV, which could lead them to replicate violent actions seen in shows. Research suggests that exposure to violent programs increases aggression in individuals and may result in children believing that violence is a normal aspect of life .

Financial stability on its own does not ensure well-being. While enough financial resources can improve living conditions and elevate social status, the article highlights that the quality of personal relationships has a more significant impact on well-being than the size of a bank balance. Pursuing money as the key to happiness can even harm an individual's overall well-being .

Governments can enhance population well-being by monitoring factors that contribute to it, such as average income levels and poverty lines, which inform policy decisions. Suggested actions to enhance well-being include promoting strong relationships, supporting fulfilling careers, ensuring access to affordable and nutritious food, encouraging regular physical activity, and fostering optimism and engagement in local community activities .

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