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1、Oral Workshop: Argument,英语高级口语讲义,(HANDOUT),01,Lesson 1,Does Television Play a Positive or Negative Role in the Modern Society?,02,Arguments,1. Television in now playing a very important part in our lives. 2. Television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a comparatively cheap
2、one. 3. Television keeps one informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in science and politics and offers an endless series of pro grammes which are both instructive and entertaining. 4. A lot of television programmes introduce people to things they never thought of
3、 before and have never heard of before. 5. Television series have done a great job in popularizing many literary master- pieces. 6. Television has been good company to those who do not work, like house- wives, lonely old people, etc. 7. With television people are still free to enjoy other “civilized
4、 pleasures”, or even more. 8. There is a considerable variety of programmes on television. The viewer is always free to choose whatever he wants to see.,03,Arguments,9. Television provides enormous possibilities for education, like school programmes via closed-circuit television. 10. Television prov
5、ides special broadcasts for those in TV University, or Open University. It also offers specialized subjects like language teaching, sewing, cooking, painting, cosmetics, etc. 11. Television does the job of education in the broadest sense. Instructive programmes achieve their goal through entertainin
6、g the viewers. 12. Television provides an outlet for creative talents. 13. People all around the world are no longer distant and isolated from each other. The most distant countries and the strangest customs are brought right into ones sitting-room. 14. Compared with the radio, everything on televis
7、ion is more lifelike, vivid, and real. 15. Television may be a vital factor in holding a family together where there are, for example, economic problems and husband and wife seem at breaking point.,04,Counter-arguments,1. Television is a great time-waster. 2. People who dont watch television are hap
8、pier than those who watch it because television goes with the kind of life which leaves the viewer nothing to spare, nothing left. 3. Television makes the viewer completely passive because everything is presented to him without any effort on his part. 4. The very danger of watching television lies i
9、n the fact that the viewer takes no initiative. He makes no choice and exercises no judgment. 5. Television passes on to children the corrupting values of a corrupt society. 6. Television is to blame for the fact that children take longer to learn to read these days and barely see the point at all o
10、f acquiring the skill. 7. Television takes up too much of our time. We no longer have enough time for hobbies, entertaining activities, and other outside amusement like theatres, cinemas, sports, etc. 8. Unfortunately all our free time is now regulated by television. 9. People rush home; gulp their
11、food, which is often as simple as sandwich and a glass of beer, and start watching the TV programmes.,05,Counter-arguments,10. The monster, i.e. television, demands absolute silence and attention. No one dares to open his mouth during a programme. 11. People have grown addicted to television, often
12、neglecting the necessary and more important things like meals, sleep and even work. 12. A lot of parents use television as a pacifier for their children. They put their children in front of the set and dont care whether the children are exposed to rubbishy commercials or spectacles of violence as lo
13、ng as the children are quiet. 13. Most of the television programmes are bad and they do not keep pace with the high demand of viewers and do not maintain high quality. 14. The wide coverage of television programmes has reduced society to the condition in pre-literate communities; we are utterly depe
14、ndent on the most primitive media of communication; pictures and spoken words. 15. What the viewer receives from television is nothing but second-hand experience. He is completely cut off from the real world. 16. The more that viewer watches television, the lazier he becomes. He is glued to the set
15、instead of going out. 17. Television prevents people from communicating with each other. It has done a lot of harm to the relationship between family members.,06,Lesson 2,Are Pets Good for Mankind?,07,Arguments,1. The great virtue of pets is that they can keep us company. 2. An animal in the family
16、helps to keep us human. 3. A pet is kept as a companion that makes us feel happy. Its suggested that pets should be sent to astronauts in a spacecraft to help reduce the loneliness of space flights. 4. Besides providing mere companionship, pets invite us to love and be loved. 5. Often a cat or a dog can comfort us at times when human words dont help. 6. Pets give us a sense of being important and needed because they depend on us for a home, food and drink. 7. Pets are of particular importan
