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Television in Our Life

Television now plays an important role in our life. It is difficult to say if it is good or bad for us. It is clear, that television has advantages and disadvantages.But are there more advantages than disadvantages? In the first place, television is an entertainment. But it is not only a convenient entertainment. For a family of three, four or five, for example, it is more convenient and less expensive to sit comfortably at home than to go out to find entertainment in other places. They don’t have to pay for expensive seats at the theatre or cinema. They turn on the TV-set and can see interesting films, concerts, football matches.

But some people think that it’s bad to watch TV. Those who watch TV need do nothing. We are passive when we watch TV. Television shows us many interesting programmes. But again there is a disadvantage here: we watch TV every evening, and it begins to dominate our lives.My friend told me that when his TV-set broke down, he and his family found that they had more time to do things and to talk to each other. There are other arguments for and against television.Very often the programmes are bad. Sometimes they show too much violence in films and news programmes.There is also too much pop music and ads. Ads on the whole are convenient for grown-ups. But is it good for children to watch all those ads where they show all kinds of underwear and what not?

Active Words and Word Combinations:

entertainment — розвага

to turn on — вмикати

passive — пасивний

to dominate — домінувати

to break down – ломатися

argument — аргумент

violence — жорстокість

pop music — поп-музика

ads (advertisemets) – реклама, об’ява, оголошення.

Questions:

1. What advantages does television have?

2. What disadvantages does televіsion have?

3. What did my friend find when his TV-set broke down?

4. What do they sometimes show?

Teacher ________________I.S.Kokovihinа

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Developing of Telecommunications

I would like to tell you about telecommunications and their developing.

We can not deny the role of telecommunications in our life. The Internet, phones, telegraph, cell phones, radio, television are all the means of communication or telecommunication. Nowadays we live in information era, when information is the key and engine of progress. Our society needs perfect means of information exchange that is why all types of telecommunication are under the permanent developing.

Currently hundreds of millions of people use wireless communication means. Cell phone is no longer a symbol of prestige but a tool, which lets to use working time more effectively. Considering that the main service of a mobile connection operator is providing high quality connection, much attention in the telecommunication market is paid to the spectrum of services that cell network subscriber may receive.

Today we can easily connect to the Internet using our cell phone or to take a picture or to take a short movie, using our video cell phone.

Late in the nineteenth century, communication facilities were augmented by a new invention — telephone. In the USA its use expanded slowly and by 1900 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company controlled 855,000 telephones.

After 1900, telephone installations extended much more rapidly in all the wealthier countries. The number of telephones in use in the world grew at almost 100 per cent per decade. But long-distance telephone services gradually developed and began to compete with telegraphic business. A greater contribution to long-range communication came with the development of wireless technology.

Before the outbreak of the First World War wireless telegraphy was established as a means of regular communication with ships at sea and provided a valuable supplement to existing telegraph lines. In the next few years the telephone systems of all the chief countries were connected with each other by radio. Far more immediate was the influence that radio had through broadcasting and by television, which followed it at an interval of about twenty-five years.

Telephones are as much a part of infrastructure of our society as roads or electricity, and competition will make them cheaper. Losses from lower prices will be countered by higher usage. Most important of all, by cutting out the need to install costly cables and microwave transmitters, the new telephones could be a boon to the remote and poor regions of the earth. Even today, half the world's population lives more than two hours away from a telephone.

Satellite phones are not going to deliver all their benefits at once.

Lots of other new communication services — on-line film libraries, personal computers that can send video-clips and sound-bites as easily as they can be used for writing letters, terrestrial mobile-telephone systems cheap enough to replace old sets — are already technically possible.

Questions:

1. What means of telecommunication do you know?

2. Why do we try to develop all types of telecommunication?

3. Can we connect to the Internet using our cell phone today?

4. What was invented late in the nineteenth century?

5. What technology made a great contribution to a long-range communication?

6. Was there wireless telegraphy as a means of regular communication before the outbreak of the First World War?

7. What new telecommunication services do you know?

Vocabulary:

telecommunication - телекомунікація, далекий зв'язок; телефон, телеграф, радіо

to develop - розвивати, вдосконалювати

to deny - заперечувати, відмовлятися від.

cell phone - мобільний телефон

exchange - обмін

permanent - постійний

tool - інструмент

effectively - ефективно

to consider - вважати, гадати

operator - оператор

to provide - забезпечувати, постачати

network - мережа, система

subscriber - передплатник, клієнт

to receive - отримувати, приймати, сприймати

facility - рЬоборудованіе, апаратура, пристосування

to augment - збільшувати, додавати

invention - винахід

to expand - розширювати, збільшувати

installation - установка, розміщення

to extend - распостраняются, розширювати

to grow (past grew, pp grown) - рости, збільшувати

gradually - поступово, потроху

to compete - конкурувати, змагатися

contribution - сприяння, внесок

wireless - бездротовий, дистанційний

outbreak - (зд) раптовий початок

to establish - засновувати, створювати

valuable - цінний, корисний

supplement - додаток, додавання

immediate - раптовий, невідкладний, негайний

influence - вплив, вплив

to broadcast (past broadcast, pp broadcast) - передавати в ефірі, віщати

interval - проміжок, інтервал

infrastructure - інфраструктура

electricity - електрика

microwave - мікрохвильовий

transmitter - передавачі

boon - благо, дар; перімущество, зручність

remote - віддалений, далекий

benefits - послуги, вигоди, привілеї

terrestrial - земний, наземний

Teacher ________________I.S.Kokovihinа