English Listening B2 Episode 10 - Track 11
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
[ 1 ] I can't stand watching 24/7 news
. I want to find out what the news is but, in fact, there is too much going on on the TV screen. It requires doing a lot of things at the
-listening to the speaker's voice, reading the moving text at the bottom of the screen and watching the pictures in the background. You know, scientists say that if we receive information through more than one channel, we actually remember it
. So is it worth putting all this information on the
?
[ 2 ] I avoid watching TV. I just don't enjoy sitting in front of the screen for
. I prefer listening to the radio. One of the advantages is that you can do something else at the
- I usually manage to clean my room during my favourite discussion programme. My granddad had to
watching TV because of his eyes and he started listening to the radio instead. He says the radio is much more civilised -journalists don't rush the people they interview and don't
them so much.
[ 3 ] I don't mind watching TV, I watch some soaps and I like comedy
. I used to watch the BBC news every day but now I usually check the news
. The problem is that there's often too much to choose from. For example, I decide to read something about a hurricane and, two lines into the text, I spot a
to another article. So I click on the link and never finish reading the
. I think we're now used to scanning websites and papers more than reading them in detail and our idea about what's going on in the world is often really
. We have to learn to select the news that may be interesting to us and then follow it in more
.
