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Unit 11 What do you think of game shows? 文化背景知识介绍（2）
——北美国家的电视、电影业
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电视业：电视业在北美（North America）极为发达（developed）。很多地区都有免费的公共电视频道（public TV channel），还有一级付费频道（Paid Channel），二级付费频道等。



而加拿大电视节目多为美国电视节目。你要想在加拿大看上好的电视剧或故事片，得等到晚上十点或午夜（midnight）后才行。在此之前，电视上多为平庸（mediocre）滑稽的肥皂剧（soap opera）。广告（advertisements）之多也很令人厌烦。如想摆脱广告纠缠可另行付费，即可看“付费电视节目”。



电影业：北美电影生意（business）很发达。要看电影可随时票。你可随时进入影院任意就坐，不想看可站起身就走。大学生周末可免费观看电影。有些大学设有电影图书馆（movie library），可供学生看各种影片、电视录像（TV video），但多为历史或资料类的教学片（educational videos）。

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Unit 11 What do you think of game shows? 文化背景知识介绍
广东省教育厅教研室
   

A sitcom – or situation comedy – is a comedy show that is always based around a particular situation. The first sitcoms began in the early to mid 20th century, though the form has remained popular to this day. Very often, a sitcom will reflect the changing social times, and the situation around which the show is based will vary. For example, Father Knows Best, an early American sitcom, showed a very traditional family setting with two parents and children. In more recent years, sitcoms such as My Two Dads reflect the changing status of the family in American society. Because sitcoms changed with the times, they rarely last more than 5 to 10 years.



A soap opera is an ongoing drama serial usually focusing on real-life issues. Some soap operas show the lives of ordinary workers and people. These appeal to the audience because the characters lives are very familiar to them. Others focus instead on wealth people, and these appeal to the audience as fantasy. Some successful soap operas can continue for decades.

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Unit 11 What do you think of game shows? 同步写作（1）



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    中国广播电视报想了解当代中学生喜欢什么样的电视节目，请根据以下调查问题，谈谈你对电视节目的喜好情况。（要求：60~70词）

QUESTIONNAIREWhere you live:                                 Sex:                    Boy                Girl1. What programs do you like best? How often do you watch them?                                                             2. Why do you like those programs?                                                             3. What programs do you dislike? Why?                                                             4. What suggestions do you have for our programs?                                                             Thanks for taking part in our survey! We'd like to send you a free copy of our newspaper as a reward.

Sample:

My favorite program is Around the World because I love traveling very much. I can visit many wonderful places in the program. One day, I want to go to those places by myself. I also like The Second Horizon. I can get many good ideas from other students of my age in this program. I watch these two programs twice a week.

I can't stand soap operas. I think they are long and boring.

There are too few programs for teenagers. Could you make more good programs for middle school students?

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Unit 11 What do you think of game shows? 同步写作（2）



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你以“电视节目收视率”（TV programs）为题进行社会调查，下面是你对本班50人调查后的结果与意见归纳，请你以此为据向电视台写一封信，说明你的调查结果。

PROGRAMMES	（插入两个笑脸）	（插入一个笑脸）	（插入一个不哭不笑的脸）	（插入一个苦脸）	（插入两个苦脸）
News	28	13	6	3
Talk Show	5	8	4	18	15
Soap Opera	4	6		21	19
Sports Show	25	18	4	3
Sitcom	28	18		4

意见归纳：

1. 新闻节目时间太长

2. 谈话节目太多

3. 没有时间看连续剧

4. 特别喜欢体育节目

5. 喜欢情景剧

Dear sir,This week I interviewed 50 students in our class about the TV programs. The following chart shows what they think of the TV programs.1.                                                             2.                                                             3.                                                             4.                                                             5.                                                                                                                                    Yours,

Sample:

Dear sir,

This week I interviewed 50 students in our class about the TV programs. The following chart shows what they think of the TV programs.

1. Most of the students like TV news, but it seems that TV news is too long for the students.

2. We don't like talk shows. We all think they are boring.

3. We don't like soap operas, either, because we don't have enough time to watch them.

4. Sports shows are our favourites. We do hope we can enjoy more sports games. We like Yao Ming and Liu Xiang.

5. Sitcoms can make us laugh. We love them and hope every day is a happy day for kids.

Yours,

Tom

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Unit 11 What do you think of game shows? 同步写作（3）
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Sentence 1

As a teenager you probably have lots of rules to follow. You can't be late for school and you have to do your homework. You can't smoke or eat and drink in class. At home, your parents might say you have to help clean the house, and you can't go out on a school night.



Sentence 2

Adults have to follow rules, too. They have to be in the office on time and for some jobs they have to wear a uniform.



Sentence 3

If you drive a car, there are traffic rules you have to follow. For example, you have to drive on the correct side of the road, you have to turn on your headlights at night, and you can't park anywhere you like.



Sentence 4

Singapore has some of the strictest laws in the world. Break them and you have to pay a fine or spend some time in jail, or both. Here are some of the country's laws and the fines you have to pay if you break them.

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Unit 11 What do you think of game shows? 同步阅读
—— Introduction to "TV culture"
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       On television in the United States, there are all sorts of TV shows. On weekday afternoons, you can watch talk shows and soap operas. In talk shows, experts discuss various topics and answer questions from the audience; soap operas are emotional dramas that continue day after day.



In the evening, many people watch their favorite sitcom or game show to relax. Sitcoms are funny and usually involve a cast of recurring characters. One popular American sitcom is Friends, a show about the lives of six young people living and working in Manhattan. In game shows, contestants compete for prizes in games of knowledge of chance. A popular game show in the United States is Wheel of Fortune. Here, contestants spin a wheel for a chance to solve a word puzzle and win cash prizes.



On weekends, sports fans often stay home to watch sports games and championships such as American football and the Super Bowl.

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Unit 12 Don't eat in class. 文化背景知识介绍
——美国学校的校规（school rules）


美国一些学校的规定很严格（strict），如上学不许戴帽子（hats）、不许戴墨镜（sunglasses）、不许穿过肥的裤子（fat pants）、食品中不可以带香蕉、上衣必须扎在裤子里等。有些学校还规定，上学使用的书包必须是透明（transparent）或网状的（netlike），必须能一眼看清里面的东西。这可能与美国校园里曾发生过枪击事件（gun fighting）有关吧。说起书包，人们总认为中国学生的书包太重了，里面书本太多了。美国的课本其实也很重，每本书都是彩色印刷（color printing）并配有图片，每本书有好几百页，很重，像中国的百科全书（encyclopaedia）一样，而且必须天天带。所以，很多学校都设有供学生存放个人物品的储物柜（lockers），学生们可以把所有的书都存在柜子里，每天上课前拿出需要用的就可以了，这是不是很方便（convenient）呢？