Television brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes, allowing viewers to watch important events unfold like presidential speeches or wars from the comfort of their own homes. It provides both informative programming like news and documentaries as well as entertainment programming meant to amuse audiences with dramas, comedies, sports, and movies. Most American homes (98%) own at least one television, on which the average household watches television for around 6 hours per day, showing how integral television has become to people's daily lives and the influence it has on how they spend their leisure time.
Television brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes, allowing viewers to watch important events unfold like presidential speeches or wars from the comfort of their own homes. It provides both informative programming like news and documentaries as well as entertainment programming meant to amuse audiences with dramas, comedies, sports, and movies. Most American homes (98%) own at least one television, on which the average household watches television for around 6 hours per day, showing how integral television has become to people's daily lives and the influence it has on how they spend their leisure time.
Television brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes, allowing viewers to watch important events unfold like presidential speeches or wars from the comfort of their own homes. It provides both informative programming like news and documentaries as well as entertainment programming meant to amuse audiences with dramas, comedies, sports, and movies. Most American homes (98%) own at least one television, on which the average household watches television for around 6 hours per day, showing how integral television has become to people's daily lives and the influence it has on how they spend their leisure time.
Television brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes, allowing viewers to watch important events unfold like presidential speeches or wars from the comfort of their own homes. It provides both informative programming like news and documentaries as well as entertainment programming meant to amuse audiences with dramas, comedies, sports, and movies. Most American homes (98%) own at least one television, on which the average household watches television for around 6 hours per day, showing how integral television has become to people's daily lives and the influence it has on how they spend their leisure time.
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TELEVISION
Television, or TV, is one of humanity's most important means of communication. It
brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. People with a television set can sit in their house and watch the president makes a speech or visits a foreign country. They can see a war being fought, and they can watch government leaders try to bring about peace. Through television, viewers at home can see and learn about people, places, and things in an away land. Television even takes viewers out of this world as the astronauts explore outer space. In addition to all these things, television brings its viewers a steady stream of programmes that are designed to entertain. In fact, TV provides many more entertainment programmes than any other kind of information media. The programmes include action-packed dramas, light comedies, soap operas, sports events, cartoons, quizzes, variety shows and motion pictures. More than 83 million homes in the United States - or 98% of all the country's homes - have at least one television set. On the average, a television set is in use in each home for about 6 3/4 hours each day. As a result, television has an important influence on how people spend their time, as well as on what they see and learn. After they arrive from work, they usually watch TV. Then, the importance of television is proven. (Taken from The New Book of Knowledge in http://report-text.blogspot.com/)
Exercise 1 1. What is the text about? 2. Identify the generic structure of the passage above? 3. What is the language features stated in the passage above? Mention it! 4. How many supporting details of each paragraph? Mention it! 5. What are the benefits of watching TV that are not stated yet in the passage above? 6. What are the weaknesses of watching TV? 7. television brings its viewers The word viewer in the third paragraph has closest meaning with the word. (the answer is stated in the passage above). 8. programmes that are designed to entertain. The word entertain in paragraph 2 means. 9. After they arrive from work The word they in the last paragraph refers to. 10. Find the definition and synonym, and make a sentence the underlined words above! (Use oxford dictionary or English-English dictionary) Report Text Definition of Report Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analysis Generic Structure of Report 1. General classification: Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in general 2. Description: Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part , customs or deed for living creature and usage for materials Language Feature of Report Introducing group or general aspect Using conditional logical connection; when, so, etc Using simple present tense Source: http://www.reporttext.blogspot.com/