[Express English] How important is television in your life?－看BBC學英文

上個世紀最偉大的發明，除了後期的網路之外，當然還有很多人最愛的電視啦! 不過，電視節目推陳出新，有好也有壞，好的是，有一些節目可以讓我們增加知識，比如說Discovery和NationalGeography頻道，都會撥出一些紀錄片介紹有關於地球上的一些事物和動物，讓大朋友小朋友都可以藉由這樣的節目吸取一些專業知識。很可惜的，這樣的節目卻是佔了少數，大部份現在流行的節目，都是一些選秀節目、綜藝節目、脫口秀，甚至現在台灣的新聞品質都變得像在上演八點檔一樣，而且，一則新聞一天重複播上百次。其他節目裡的話題，也都只會批判和八卦，一點教育意義都沒有，雖然可以讓你暫時放空，但是，真的是蠻浪費時間的，所以，對小編來說，電視實在是沒有那麼重要，也因為如此，我把家裡的第四台都切了，主要都選擇收看MOD國外的一些節目，除了品質較高之外，節目的水準也比較高，小朋友也不會學一些有的沒有的。這是我個人的看法啦，看看大家認為電視在你們的生活上佔了多大的比重，又有多重要囉!

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How important is television in your life?

Here's what people in London said:

Telly takes about 40% of my day - watchingtelly, especially fashion and celebrities' lives. It's important for me becauseafter school and work and everything I can relax in front of the telly.Definitely unwinding, relaxing.

Generally speaking, how do you feel aboutTV?

Personally I don't watch that much TV, andwhen I do, I kind of, watch the news and stuff. I think TV has conjured up like a hyper-reality and when people watch it their mind-set of thingskind of changes. For instance fashion – women watch how women are on TV andstuff and then they automatically feel that oh, they want to be that kind ofperson, and things. I think that it has a negative effect - the negatives outweigh the positives.

Generally speaking, I think TV is a greatmedium for communication. You've got things like comedy, factual programmes,documentaries, art programmes and then things like soap operas. It covers a broad range of interests and expression.

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Let’s dig in!

For most people, television is veryimportant to their life. Especially nowadays, many people are living in afast-pace life. Most of the time, people really need some time to escape fromtheir reality. Therefore, the programmes on TV should fulfill their fantasy andimagination by creating sci-fi movies or over rating soap operas. The talkshows on TV could also fulfill people’s curiosity of what’s going on. Thethings that are talked about in the show could also become things to talk aboutduring their social life and give some sort of connection with others.