Friday, 25 July 2008

TV and my ideas

Some of my ideas about:
Negative effects of television:
1: waste a lot of your time
2: I believe that TV is the reason for so many people to be out shape. They eat unhealthy food and don’t take the time to exercise afterwards. (Some food which can be eaten while watching TV: candy bars, potato chips, and all kind of stuff!!!)
3: children who watch TV hear coarse (rude) language and see violence, crime, use of drug and sex
4: many programs are not educational at all; most are frictional cartoons or movies which don’t teach you any thing
5: young people watch things on TV and they think they are okay when they are not
6: A child has limited view of the world and is dependent on his/her parents for instructions/knowledge and explanation .if the child doesn’t enough instruction or knowledge then he/she is forced to choose by his/her self what is seen on television as either good or bad
Positive effect of television:
1: TV has a lot of positive effects and influences on our society ,it gives us useful information, various form of education, entertainment which are all a part of the positive effects that TV has on our society
2: these type of things (sexual activity, drug, violence) happen every day .if young teenager do not watch them in a movie they will simply see them in the world around them. Only they should be aware of their surrounding and the world they live in.
Censorship:
Movies should not be censored for teenagers because they are old enough to see every thing
Reality television:
1: reality TV is a genre of television programming which present and show dramatic or humorous situations
2: ordinary people are playing in these kind of programs instead of professional actors
3: the viewers has no absolutely control over the images television and all images are controlled by the sender in addition, images just come, one after next
4 :in my opinion, these programs are suitable for some ones who are interested in human intraction

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

What is media literacy?


http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=media+literacy+with+transcript&hl=en&sitesearch=#q=media%20literacy%20&hl=en

When I was reading my book, I found a word which was new for me and I hadn’t any idea about it. Instead of using dictionary to find out its definition I watched this clip and I have completely found out its meaning .it was media literacy, what is media literacy???
Some important points which I have understood:
1-media literacy is the ability to analyze, use and evaluate the media in positive way
2-media literacy education started in England in 1929
3-media literacy provides tools to help people critically analyze message to detect propaganda (is information, often inaccurate information, which a political organization publishes), censorship in news
4-in 1990 a world conference on media literacy was held in Ontario where over 500 educators from around world converged to discuss the need for media literacy and plan to reinvent critical thought as it applied to the media.
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After watching this video I could understand the meaning of media literacy .I am going to choose some of this point and talk about them in seminar day.

New Technologies




I read this article .this article is about future of TV or new technologies .it was very interesting for me because I have found out new things which will happen in during this year or perhaps 2 or 3 years later in UK. For example all analogues TV will be switched off and all people will use digital TV in future. Other example is there will be new technology which is called HDTV (high definition television) HDTV. it is a new format for watching programs, and you can watch sharper, clearer with brighter pictures and better sound which is pretty amazing. Although this article was published on November 2006, There are others example of new technology which each of them have been interesting for me and will be seen very soon. I am going to say about them in friday`s seminar.

Some new words:
Squeeze:
if you squeeze something, you press it firmly, usually with your hands.
Open up: if something opens up opportunities or possibilities, or if they open up, they are created.

New Month


This month is the fifthe month which I have been studying English at London met University.because of my sickness I start my self study in this month couple of days late.however,I am not worry and I am working much harder this month.Good Luck everyone and have lovely green days with your green book!!

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Monday, 7 July 2008

News on BBC

I read and listened to this news about the latest James Bond http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/britain/index.shtml

Pronunciation Quiz(1)

I did this quiz(1) about pronunciation my final score was 6 out of 10,my wrong answers have been 1,2,6,8