Children and The Media
Reading: Children and the Media
Source: Brown, K. and Hood, S. (2002). Academic Encounters: Life in Society.
Cambridge University Press.
Unit 3 : Media and Society Chapter 6: Influence of Media
Television and Children Fiction and Reality
Reading: Children and the Media
Discussion questions before reading:
What are the social problems associated with TV viewing?
What are the positive and negative impacts of television in your daily life?
Should children watch TV? Why? Why not?
What are the positive and negative impacts of television on children?
- Estimate:
- Violence:
- Commercial:
Vocabulary for Reading:
To judge tentatively or approximately the value, worth, or significance of.
An advertisement included with another broadcast (as on radio, television, or a podcast)
The use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy.
- Aggressive:
Tending toward or exhibiting aggression.
- Physical:
- Sensitive:
- Undertake:
Vocabulary for Reading:
Having material existence; perceptible especially through the senses and subject to the laws of nature.
To put oneself under obligation to perform.
Delicately aware of the attitudes and feelings of others.
- Clear cut:
Free from ambiguity or uncertainty.
- Portray:
- Punishment:
- Tend to:
To describe in words.
A penalty inflicted on an offender through judicial procedure.
To move, direct, or develop one's course in a particular direction.
Of a kind likely to be damaging.
- Harmful:
Vocabulary for Reading:
- Response:
- Passive:
- Deal with:
Something constituting a reply or a reaction.
Tending not to take an active or dominant part.
To do something about (a person or thing that causes a problem or difficult situation).
Vocabulary for Reading:
- Fiction:
Something invented by the imagination or feigned.
Listening: Children and the Media
Source: «How Tv Affects the Brains of Young Children”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2SdEpHjrjw
Discussion about the listening:
What is the main point of the speech?
Do you agree or disagree with the speaker? Why?
Listening: Children and the Media
Source: «How Tv Affects the Brains of Young Children”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2SdEpHjrjw
Discussion about the listening:
Can you give examples of children programs which are harmful for children?
Are the media important for children development? Why? Why not?
Writing: Children and the Media
Subject: Tv Programs and Children
Support your ideas by using examples.
In Class Exercise:
