11 Haziran 2013 Salı

SECOND TERM- 4-UNKNOWN SIDES OF TELEVISION



 Television, abbreviated to TV, is a widely used communication system for broadcasting or receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. It is one of the most indispensable parts of human life. Some people even regard it as a member of their family. Although it is an invention and made by human, why do people think that television is something excellent? According to TİK( Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu), average time that people have spent watching TV is 5.11 hours in United States and is 4.5 hours in Turkey. Everyone enjoys watching TV channels, because they can obtain new things or just entertain by watching them. Therefore, television is an advantageous tool because of its educational, funny and informative elements.
First of all, TV includes many programs from which people can learn plenty of information. It provides many opportunities like history and science channels for people. For example, a program broadcasted in a history channel may attract the interest of a student more than his/her history lecture, so the facts obtained from here are more lasting for the students. Additionally, there are many cartoons and animation films for children. These programs show many of visuals and the contents of these cartoons are mainly designed for teaching basic knowledge of life to children. For example, Peppe and Calliou are cartoons which give examples of social rules to children. As the time passes, children become more aware of their around. They start to think, examine and understand things, and this improves their intelligence to a great extent.
Secondly, TV entertains people with movies, series and shows. Actually, it enables to have fun by gathering whole family together most of the time. In other words it is a way of entertaining. People invite their relatives, select a good movie and spend their time by doing such a great activity. They can share many things thanks to television. Also, TV has some sport channels and people can follow their favorite matches, teams or sports in these channels. A few of people can go matches and watch it in the same time. The rest use their TV channels for this purpose and this makes TV more important for them.

Finally, people can get more information about what is happening in all over the world. It is not possible to visit every country and learn their culture its own place. However, TV gives people chance to see almost every beauty of the world. Different types of cultures, languages and life styles are represented by some TV channels like National Geographic. Each of TV series is also a source to learn different cultures because they reflect the society where they take place. Besides, all of the events in the world are announced by TV and people can be informed about the news in both their own country and the others even in a few hours. They can also guess the weather by watching whether forecasts and they make their plans according to weather
On the whole, as a tool for learning, entertaining and getting information TV is beneficial for society. People can learn some useful, scientific or social information by watching TV. They can also make fun thanks to movies, series or shows in TV. Finally, TV informs people about news and weather forecasts about all over the world. When thinking all of these services, it is unfair to say that TV is a harmful thing.


1 yorum:

  1. Dear Merve,
    I want to start with congratulating you on choosing an interesting, debatable and current topic at the same time. It is good that you told about the different aspects of the benefits of watching TV, but in order to obtain an article which has strong basis, you could have mentioned the negative effects. However, it would make your passage much more longer than normal, so you have right to have done it this way. There are some grammar and spelling mistakes such as "sports" instead of "sport", "entertain" should be used in the passive form, "enable" entails an object and "go to the matches" instead of "go matches". I, again, want to thank you for your elaborate work! Have an excellent holiday! :)

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