1. Chapter Eight Entertainment and the Media School of Applied English Dalian University of Foreign Languages

5. Content zSection 1 Warming-up zSection 2 Listening to tape zSection 3 Listening to the song Five Hundred Miles zSection 4 Listening for Main Ideas zSection 5 Watching Friends Excerpt

6. Section 1 Warming-up zCultural background of entertainment zDifferent categories of entertainment

7. Categories of entertainment zSports zClassical music zOpera zPlay zPopular music zTV series zSoap opera zFilm ……

8. Questions zList your top 5 favorite songs or films. zWhat is the advantage and the disadvantage of watching TV?

9. Section 2 Listening to tape. zWhat are Jack and Ming discussing? zDo Jack and Ming have the same opinion about watching TV?

10. Notes: zazaverage: typical; ordinary. zczcouch potato: couch potato is an expression used to describe someone who sits in front of the TV all the time eating junk food, such as potato chips. zczcommercial: short advertising message on radio or television. zrzremote control: control from a distance of a machine or apparatus, as a guided missile or television, esp. by means of radio signals.

11. Section 3 Listening to the song zFive Hundred Miles

12. Section 4 Listening for Main Ideas z Giving a summary for what you have heard in your own words.

13. Section 5 Watching FriendsFriends zQuestion 1