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Presented by: Tuan Anh + Khanh ChanPresented by: Tuan Anh + Khanh Chan

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• Warm up

• While you write

Warm up

Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.

1. What are some kinds of the mass media ?

2. Which one is the most popular?

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of TV?

T says that we will learn how to write about the advantage and disadvantage of thing.

While you write

Activity 1: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the TV and arrange them down in the columns below.

1. Interfere with family life and communication.

2. Make things more memorable because it presents information in effective way.

3. Make people violent.

4. Encourage us to buy things that we don’t need.

5. Increase the popularity of sports and games .

6. Make us passive.

7. Entertain us.

8. Learn more about the world and to know and see many new things.

Advantages of television Disadvantages of television•Make things more memorable because it presents information in effective way.

•Increase the popularity of sports and games .

•Entertain us.

•Learn more about the world and to know and see many new things.

• Interfere with family life and communication.

• Make people violent.

• Encourage us to buy things that we don’t need.

• Make us passive

Activity 2: Work in pairs. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media, and write them down in the columns below.

Advantages Disadvantages

Radio •Make people happy.

•Relax.

•Enlarge knowledge.

•Share opinions.

•Waste of time.

•Make people massive.

Newspapers •Make people happy.

•Get information on many fields.

•Relax and entertain.

•Cost time and money.

•Make people passive.

•Harm people eyes: be short-sighted.

The Internet •Provide quick and daily access to informations and entertainment.

•Get information on many fields.

•Relax and entertain.

•Cost a lot of time and money.

•Make people passive.

•Effect people’s life….

Activity 3: Write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media:

Listening to music. Reading newspapers. Using Internet. Watching TV.