What is the main idea of the text and the key points of the passages?

4. Write down all the words referring to such issues as:

  a) lack of individual responsibility, b) advantages of TV industry, c) creating the global society.

Read out the sentences they are used in and translate them into Russian.

Look back at the text, find out and write down the answers to the following questions.

- How long did it take television to captivate people's life? What made it possible?

- How did television change people's life? What are the positive and negative changes in author's opinion?

- Have people changed their opinion about television since it first appeared in the late 40-s? Have they become more critical and less receptive?

- Has the pattern of viewing changed since the first days of televi­sion?

- What is the indirect impact of television on society? Do you agree with the author?

- Is television good or bad in the author's view?

6. Give Russian equivalents to the following words and expressions:

to branch out, to be engaged to issues, a venue for inspiration, iImmediate community, approximately.

Fill in the chart with family words. Translate them into Russian.

Noun	Verb	Adjective	Adverb
		rich
			approximately
society
	implicate
			merely
weight
	shadow

Translate the passages of the text in written form beginning from

“ Television provides ” up to “ a 65-year life ”.

Write a short summary of the text of no more than 250 words using the guidelines on page 6.

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