Открытый урок на тему «Средства массовой информации»

Mass Media.

Newspapersare especially important nowadays and we can't imagine our life without them. There are newspapers for professionals, for businessmen, for children and teenagers, for men and women, for sports fans, for those who are interested in gardening, fishing, hunting, for those who keep pets and so on. In short, you can always find a paper which suits your interests.

Television with its help we can see everything with our own eyes. It is the window on the world which gives us an opportunity to "travel" all over the world. TV gives us thought, introduces us to new ideas and activities. It has the power to educate and broaden our minds. It helps us to relax after a hard day's work and to escape from reality.

Many people prefer the radio. It is good to listen to it in the car, or in the open air, or when you do something about the house.

The Internet has recently become another important source of information.It is one thing that more cool and faster than television. The internet is a window into the world of information. Using the internet you can find all that you want to know and you don’t need go to shops, buy DVD...no. It is very convenient. You can chat with your friends in “in contact” and other chats pages.

Books.There are different kinds of books: novels, short stories, tales, fairy-tales, fables, poems, plays, memories, atlases and text-books. Books can be humorous, adventurous, detective, fantastic, historical, political, and scientific. They can be interesting, thrilling, fascinating, exciting, useful, unusual, original, amusing, moving, and true-to-life, well-written, boring, badly-written, and unoriginal.

Выражения:study the languages spoken all over the world, learn about the history of their own country, realize how common they have with other peoples, choose the place they would like to visit.

Before reading: answer the question “Do you agree that TV has positive and negative sides? What sides are predominant to your mind?

Advantages and disadvantages of TV

Watching TV, you know, is the perfect way to spend our free time. Do you agree? Or maybe you don’t? It’s a well known fact that TV has good and bad sides.

First of all it keeps people informed; we can learn a lot of information watching TV. We can choose programs that appeal to us more, because TV provides programs for all interests. Sometimes with the help of TV we can relax, entertain ourselves, especially when we are tired.

Advertisement on TV gives us information about different products, and it makes it easier to choose things to buy. When we watch TV we learn something new about the world, famous people and recent news.

But, on the other hand, TV has a lot of disadvantages. It takes a lot of time and it makes us lazy. Besides, it’s very harmful for our health, especially for our eyes. Some violent programs and films on TV make people violent. Violence becomes a vital problem in our days.

There is too much advertisement on TV. Sometimes it can encourage us to buy things we don’t need at all. Watching TV takes all free time from almost all people. We just watch it, not concentrate, and waste time.

So, we can’t say exactly whether it’s useful to watch TV or not, as TV has its advantages and disadvantages.

Millions people in the world spend hours watching TV every day… But what for? Do people really think it’s the best way to spend time?

Many people become TV-addicted and it’s really a problem of our time. But the fact is that “so many people, so many minds!” And what do you think?

T: Make up the table, using facts from the text (it’s better to divide the class in to two groups, the first one – to find the advantages of watching TV, the second one - to find the disadvantages of watching TV)

T:Try to express the main idea of the text in several sentences.

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