培养学生自主学习的能力
Reasons for watching television:
make life more interesting,get to know more about other countries,enjoy beautiful scenery around the world,keep people better informed,educational value, provided with entertainment and relaxation by interesting programmes,learn skills,learn foreign languages,tele-shopping,learn how to cook,learn farming methods,watch favourite films,learn school  
;subjects
Reasons against watching television:
lower motivation in studies; damage eyesight; make people lazy;don't want to do housework; unhealthy programmes such as vi.olence,sex or murder for children;misleading TV commercials;children learn how to fight or make girl friends and boy friends at an early age; harm people's health.
教师也可以用Spider map的形式列出学生提出的所有想法(见下图):
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然后教师可以归纳学生的讨论结果,并通过表格的形式展示出来。(见下表)
Advantages of Watching Television
Entertainment Education Information
favourite films foreign languages
interesting school courses news
programmes skill training around
etc. (cooking,farming) the world,
etc. etc.
下面是Brainstorming之后一个学生写出的短文:
Television is considered to be one of the greatest inventions of the last century.As I can remember,the word "television",comes from two words --"tele" and "vision",which means "far"and"see".So television is an appliance that can help us see far.Infact,television has played an important part in modern society since its invention.It makes the world smaller, as we can beinformed of what is happening around the world.It entertains us with different kinds of programmes,lt also helps us learn.Some people even believe that our society cannot advance without television.
As every coin has two sides,television also causes some problems。 The first one is a health problem.We often call those who watch TV too much"couch potatoes" because they watch Tv for too long and always eat while watching,which makes them puton weight easily.Their lack of exercises may also cause other diseases.Secondly,watching too much TV is a waste of time.No matter whether you are a teacher,a student or an office clerk,or even a housewife,you may always have something more important to do.But if you are "addicted" to waching TV,you are likely to neglect other things.What's more,some television programmes have a bad influence on teenagers.Not all programmes on TV are good or suitable for children. Some of them make matters worse,because children may imitate what they have seen on TV.That's one of the reasons&n