Chapter Eight Entertainment and the Media School of Applied English Dalian University of Foreign Languages.

Chapter Eight Entertainment and the Media

School of Applied English

Dalian University of Foreign Languages

Content

Section 1 Warming-up

Section 2 Listening to tape

Section 3 Listening to the song Five Hundred Miles

Section 4 Listening for Main Ideas

Section 5 Watching Friends Excerpt

Section 1 Warming-up

Cultural background of entertainment

Different categories of entertainment

Categories of entertainment

SportsClassical musicOperaPlayPopular musicTV seriesSoap operaFilm ……

Questions

List your top 5 favorite songs or films.

What is the advantage and the disadvantage of watching TV?

Section 2 Listening to tape.

What are Jack and Ming discussing?

Do Jack and Ming have the same opinion about watching TV?

Notes:

average: typical; ordinary.couch potato: couch potato is an

expression used to describe someone who sits in front of the TV all the time eating junk food, such as potato chips.

commercial: short advertising message on radio or television.

remote control: control from a distance of a machine or apparatus, as a guided missile or television, esp. by means of radio signals.

Section 3 Listening to the song

Five Hundred Miles

500 Miles

Section 4 Listening for Main Ideas

Giving a summary for what you have heard in your own words.

Section 5 Watching Friends

Question 1