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Note Making Example 4:: (Question Paper CBSE, 2020)

Television can enhance knowledge and provide companionship for the elderly and patients, while also aiding language learning. However, excessive viewing can lead to negative effects such as poor concentration, dissatisfaction with real life, and increased violence among children. The influence of television is significant, often overshadowing reality and affecting mental health.

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Note Making Example 4:: (Question Paper CBSE, 2020)

Television can enhance knowledge and provide companionship for the elderly and patients, while also aiding language learning. However, excessive viewing can lead to negative effects such as poor concentration, dissatisfaction with real life, and increased violence among children. The influence of television is significant, often overshadowing reality and affecting mental health.

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Note Making Example 4: Read the following passage: (Question Paper CBSE,

2020)

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)

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