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b) Pair work. Team up with another student, work out pros and cons of children's television as they are 
presented in the extracts and discuss the extracts in pairs. 
c) Speak about the effects of television on children. Consider the following: 
1. Does television have a negative or bad influence on children? If you think it does, tell 
how. 2. What are the effects upon the vulnerable and developing human organism of 
spending a significant proportion of each day engaged in this particular experience 
(watching TV)? 3. How does the television experience affect a child's language 
development, for instance? 4. What good or positive influences does television have on 
children? 5. How does television stimulate children's curiosity? 6. How does the 
availability of television affect the ways parents bring up their children? 7. Are new 
child-rearing strategies being adopted and old ones discarded because the television set is 
available to parents for relief? 8. How does watching television for several hours each 
day affect the child's abilities to form human relationships? 9. What happens to family 
lif£ as a result of family members' involvement with television?
(There may never be clear-cut and final answers to these questions.) 
7. Below are four different opinions on the same controversial issue "Children and Television". 
a) Work in groups of 3 or 4 and assign one of the opinions to each member of the group: 
1. Primary and secondary education have improved out of all recognition since the arrival 
of TV in the home and this is not only because of programmes designed for schools. 
Through TV a child can extend his knowledge and it provides vital food for his 
imagination. 2. We aire dealing with a culture of TV babies. They can watch, do their 
homework and listen to music at the same time. What kids can't do today is follow things 
too long. Today's TV babies get bored and distracted easily. 3. You can blame TV for the 
fact that children take longer to learn to read these days and barely see the point any more 
of acquiring the skill. Watching TV should be strictly confined to "treats". 4. Television 
provides outlet for creative talents. The programmes done with good taste and 
imagination actually stimulate a child's own creativity.

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