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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 08
Section 5 - Your turn
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Section 5 is based on 'Your Turn'. It helps you to listen and understand people giving their opinions.
Suggestion: Look at the phrases that the people use. Sometimes they don't use complete sentences. Write down notes and then say what you think.
In Your Turn you heard 5 people answer this question: ‘What are the best - and worst – things on TV?’
What about you? What do you think about TV programmes? Do you have strong opinions about programmes that you like and programmes that you hate?
Here are the things people talked about:
• sport
• reality shows
• soap operas
• the weather forecast
• nature documentaries
• films
• action programmes
and here are some more ideas:
• quiz shows
• talk shows
• the news
• comedy programmes
• historical drama
… and there are lots of other programmes that you can talk think about too!
So, write down what you think are the best – and worst – things on TV . And explain why. Go to the bottom of the page to write your text.
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Transcript
Tess: Now, let’s move on to Your Turn, the part of our podcast when we find out what you think. This time round we asked a two part question – what are the best – and worst – things on TV. Let’s hear some answers.
Voice 1: Best thing – sport. I know people complain about it but it’s all I watch, really. Worst thing – reality TV shows – definitely. There are hundreds of them and they are all completely stupid.
Voice 2: Well, I like soap operas. I watch two or three of them, you know. You really feel like you know the characters. I’ve watched them for years. What do I always switch off? Probably the weather forecast. It’s never right so what’s the point in watching it?
Voice 3: I don’t watch much TV but I do like the nature documentaries. I saw one about whales and it was just amazing. I don’t know how they do it. But apart from that, I don’t know. There’s too much sport on television. I just turn it off straight away.
Voice 4: I can’t really go to the cinema very often now I’ve got children so I like to watch films on TV. They don’t have the most recent films but, you know, it’s OK. That’s what I watch mostly. I can’t stand all the sport on TV though. It never ends!
Voice 5: Erm.. what do I like? Have you seen Silver Fox? I love action programmes like that, you know, exciting things. It’s better than the news and the political programmes and that. Bo-ring!.
Tess: How about you Ravi. What would you say?
Ravi: Sport, I’m afraid. That’s pretty much all I watch on TV. I watch DVDs most of the time. Let us know what you think – what are the best – and worst – things on TV?
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