Unit4 Talking about your TV viewing habits

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Unit4 Talking about your TV viewing habits

Vocabulary

documentary

a television documentary about/on the future of nuclear power

news

to listen to/watch the news

reality show

Reality shows are relatively cheap to produce.


weather

to listen to the weather

sitcom

This sitcom is really funny.

science fiction

It's a science fiction show,set in the year 2150.

drama

She loves watching historical drama.

game show
You can win ten thousand dollars on this game show.

sports

There's a sports show on TV at 8 o'clock.

Expressions

I'm totally addicted to ....

I'm crazy about....

I generally like...

I don't really care for....

I absolutely hate...

I can't stand....

I never miss....


I almost always watch.....

Vocabulary

couch potato

programs

funny

stressful

stupid

silly

channels

cable TV

serious

Expressions

Now we're going to learn how to say how often something happens.

occasionally

seldom

generally

every morning

once in a while

never

almost always

Listening

Hearing adverbs

Adverbs can often be longer words,like occasionally or regularly,and when we're speaking,some of their syllables are made weaker
so they're easier to say,The -ly on the end is often not a very strong sound,but there are other parts that can be weaker,too.

Totally!I love it.

The -al in totally is a very quite sound compared to the other sounds in the word,and this part of a word is usually not strongly pronounced in English.

Listen for the sound of -ate in unfortunately in the next sentence.

unfortunately,I didn't see it.

The sound is very weak and makes the word quicker to say.Knowing that parts of words like -ate and -al will
usually be pronounced weakly can help usually
recognize them.You mighe also notice that un- is not strongly pronounced in this word either.