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Lesson 2

Violence in Media

Statistics says, the average child between the ages of two and eleven

watches television 27.3 hours each week. By the time a person is sixteen, he

or she has watched more than 20,000 hours of television. Including 200,000

acts of violence and 50,000 of which are murders. Violence in Media is one of

the most difficult problems that we are facing nowadays, because most of the

families around the world have their own television.

Comprehension

1. How many hours a day does an average child watch television?
2. What is the most difficult problem we are facing nowadays?

Questions

1. Approximately, how many hours do you spend watching television?

2. What kind of programs usually catches your interest?
3. What can you say about violence in media?

4. How will you limit yourself (or your children’s) TV viewing time?

Vocabulary & Expressions
view: the act of seeing or examining.
violence: rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment.
average: a typical amount, rate, degree, etc. norm
statistics: the numerical facts or data
own: belonging to oneself or itself

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