Today children are spending much more time watching TV compared to the past. Why do you think this happens? Is this a positive or a negative change?

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Nowadays, young people are sitting on the front of
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more often
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their parents in their ages. The main reason
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this
trend is based on the fact that there are a huge number of various channels and programs for any tastes without any
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brakes
breaks
and vacations in the schedule. It brings a negative shift to society as it has a harmful impact on the health and hinders educational and social development. More often children prefer to watch different shows and serials than to spend their time with
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riend outside. In the previous centuries, there was no some enormous
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variety
of media entertainments or just a limited quantity of them.
Moreover
, the film production industry was not so developed and film companies could create only one or maybe two new films per year.
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cale of media programs, modern children spend more hours
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watching
them. A new children`s interest can be considered as non-positive cause due to it their health, education and social life can suffer.
First
of all,
for instance
, the sitting in the front of
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creen during several hours has a hazardous influence on the person`s vision. As a consequence, in the best scenario
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people have to
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glasses, or in the worst one
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they need to make a difficult and expensive operation on
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their
eyes.
Secondly
, just a minority of teenagers are interested in educational channels
such
as "Discovery" or "BBC", more often the overwhelming majority prefer TV-shows and films,
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cartoons
about
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.
Consequently
, they have less time and wish to study.
Furthermore
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hildren limit their communication with peers and replace them by unreal people from the
screen
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preferences
and actions can be defined as reasons
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decreasing
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educational
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social development among student. To sum up, with the growing number of different TV-shows and programs young people spend
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arge amount of time behind the
screen
.
Instead
of some pluses,
this
way of activity brings much harm to person
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • screen time
  • sedentary lifestyle
  • educational content
  • entertainment
  • relaxation
  • physical activity
  • cultural exposure
  • mental health
  • visual skills
  • auditory skills
  • advertisements
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