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4. Check the schedule of your favorite TV channel.

• Identify the genre of the programs that are broadcast and
Genre, purpose, and addressee Political program Game show Music program TV genres are
write them down in your notebook. Look at the example.
Example:

ChANNEL 11. (MExICO, PUBLIC TELEvISION)

Remember
Genres

categories which
Health
Documentary
Movie
classify programs
Series
Entertainment
Cooking show
according to
Teen show
Talk show
Sports program
they follow (such
as participants,
topics, settings,
• Remember to use the images in your CD to practice a little bit more. the conventions
length, etc.).
5. Compare the genres you wrote down in the previous activity.
Exchange opinions about the similarities and differences
session 2 between the channels. Look at the example.
Example:
Yes, although, on my channel,
I find there are fewer genres,
Your channel and mine have
similar genres, as entertainment, because it is not a public channel.
movies, sports, cooking shows,
game shows and series.

Reader's
Book page 23-27

• If you have difficulty getting TV programs, you can find a few transcripts in your
Reader’s Book. If you have the chance, open the referenced sources of the readings,
this way you will be able to watch and listen to them. You may also check the posters
related to this practice in the CD.

6. Describe your favorite TV program (from Activity 2) or a segment of it and
answer the following questions:

• Write your answers to the questions in your notebook.

• For whom is it intended? • What is its purpose?

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