TV programmes

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Television, also called TV, is one of our most important means of communication. It brings moving pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. The name "Television" comes from Greek word meaning "far", and a Latin word meaning "to see", so the word "tele-vision" means "to see far". Commercial TV stations broadcast mostly entertainment programs because they must attract larger numbers of view­ers in order to sell advertising time at high prices. These programs include light dramas called situation comedies; action-packed dramas about life of detectives, police officers, lawyers and doctors; shows featuring comedians, dancers and singers; movies; quiz shows викторины; soap operas; cartoons. Commercial TV broadcasts also documentaries and talk shows. Documentary is dramatic, but nonfictional presentation of information. It can be programs about people, animals in faraway places or programs on such issues тема as alcoholism, drug abuse наркомания, racial prejudice расовые предрассудки. On talk shows a host interviews. politicians, TV and movie stars, athletes, authors. There are also sport programs and brief summaries-краткий обзор of local, national and international news. Advertising-реклама is an important part of commercial TV.

Television is one of the greatest achievements-достижение of the 20-th century. It is the most popular part of mass media СМИ. Today every family has a TV-set. TV has changed much since the time of its invention изобретение and so has its role. There have been numerous debates-обсуждение concerning advantages and disadvantages of television. When TV first appeared-появилось its main purpose was to give official information to people. It was supported-потверждена by the government. Now television plays a big role in every civilised society.

Nowadays some people in our country watch television programmes from about six in the morning to the early hours of the next day. It means that contemporary-современные people-людт for various reasons depend upon television. They watch everything from news and sports reports to dramas, educational and entertainment programmes. TV occupies our free time. Instead-вместо того of going to the theatre or reading books people watch TV. People have stopped reading books and depend on TV pictures. People become lazy, instead of doing sports they watch TV. Television takes free time of the people. Instead of joining a choir or playing football or reading books people watch various programmes. Dinnertime is often pressed by television if it is not in the kitchen. It should be said that television continues to play an important part in the human life despite increasing influence of the Internet, video games and other high-technology sources of information.

Дата добавления: 2015-08-17