Reading Passage- Unit 10-Lesson 1

                                                              Unit-10, Lesson-1 

Television (tube, box) has become the most common and widespread (rife) source of entertainment of the present world. A wide range of programmers of varied interest is telecast (broadcast, show) on  Cambrian Learners’ Communicative English   numerous channels. Almost every middle class and even working class families have a television set today. Television programmers are not only entertaining;(amusing, hilarious) they can be highly educative too. For example, television is used for distance learning. Courses run by the Open University are shown on BTV. Several channels like the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel telecast highly informative programmers. Watching TV, however, has become an addiction (compulsion) for many. Satellite telecasting has added new dimensions to television but it has sometimes been branded (proprietary) as a cultural assault(attack,stabbing) on developing nations. The East is being exposed more and more to Western music, entertainment and modes of life. As a result, young people's tastes are gradually being influenced by them. A major influence on American children's lives is the television shows they watch. TV viewing statistics are staggering : 96% of US homes have at least one television set, and children aged three to five watch an average of fifty hours of TV every week. By the time these kids graduate from high school, they will have spent more than 22,000 hours in front of the box but only 11,000 hours in school. Most research on the effects of TV on children centers round whether watching so much violence on TV makes them more aggressive(hostile, violent). Many studies show that it does. Indeed TV watching influences children's learning.

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Shamsul Huda

Lecturer (English)

City Model College

Dhaka-1204

Bangladesh