1) Think: Which gadgets do you use every day?

Do you waste or save time?

How many hours do you spend watching TV per day?
Do you think this is ok/too much/not enough?

2) Read the program information and find:

Find a TV channel_________________
Find a TV program___________________
Find a country____________________
Find gadgets and technological devices _______________________
BBC Panorama: Is TV Bad For My Kids?

Panorama is a BBC documentary series

that looks at important issues. In this
programme Jeremy Vine does an
experiment in the UK: for two weeks
several families have to live without
television, computers and video games.
Can they survive? What can we learn
from the experiment? Watch to find out.
Some predictions beforewatching:
How do you think the children will
react to this experiment?
What about the parents? How do
you think parents will feel?
Would you survive without TV?

Listen again and complete the blanks:

1- Without TV its clear that parents will have to _______ a lot harder.
2- Some say that Television and computer games makes our kids fat, teaches them to be
____________ and rots their brains.
3- In the experiment ____________ and computers were removed from their lives.
4- In the school walls there were some _____________ to record the impact of what went on.
5- One of the women says that some changes were made in her home. The children can
watch TV after theyve done their ____________.
6- A man says that he found the experiment was _____________ for the family.

Group discussion:
1-Did the parents think the experiment was positive? Why/Why not?
2-What do you think of the experiment? Do you think it was a good idea?

Writing: Write an entry for a blog about Kids watching television and interacting
with technology.