Unit 4  TV programmes

period 7  integrated skills 
teaching goals:
• to identify the context of an interview and distinguish between three different interviewees
• to identify main ideas and vocabulary and use this information to complete a report
• to talk about preferences in tv programmes t
• to respond to opinions
• to express agreement and disagreement
teaching procedures
step 1. revision
  there a dialogue between kitty and millie, listen to the tape carefully, try to answer the
folowing questions.
1. what kind of tv programmes does millie like best? why/
2. does kitty like tv programmes about animals? why not?  what are her favourite?
3. how much time does kitty spend on watching tv every day?  what about millie?
use the following dialogue as a model, work in pairs. underlined words can be replaced.
a: what kind of tv programmes do you like best?
b: i like watching programmes about animals. i find them interesting.
a: i don’t lik programmes about animals. i think they are boring. programmes about the arts
are better. they are my favourite.
  b: how much time do you spend on watchin tv every day?
  a: i watch tv about two hours every day. what about you?
  b: about an hour.
some useful vocabulary for students to refer to.
types          reasons (positive)      reasons (negative)
science           interesting                boring
news              exciting                 dull
fashion             funny                  silly
music             entertaining              sad
comedy              cool               meaningless
history            fascinating               noisy