All Types of Entertainment

In today's society everyone seems to be trying to find the best form of entertainment. Most people now days seem to find this entertainment fix with television. So many people seem to watch TV for the simple fact that it offers such a wide variety of choices. The different kinds of series can be broken down into four major groups: situation comedies, serial shows, reality television, and sports. A major category of TV shows is the situation comedy. In situation comedies the characters remain in the same situation from episode to episode.

The situation usually focuses on family, workplace, or a group of friends. It was the first of the categories to come about, starting in black and white in the 1940's. Shows such as "Leave It To Beaver" and "I Love Lucy" were shows based on the stereotypes of their time, which pulled in its viewers because they could relate to the storylines of the shows. Most sitcoms are a half-hour in length and aired weekly. Many of the earliest sitcoms were direct adaptations of existing radio shows. Eventually, sitcoms began to divide themselves into two distinct groups: the domestic comedy, which focused on a family or a married couple in their home, and the workplace comedy, which focused on the employees at a workplace.
Another major TV show category is something called a serial show. Serials in television are often in a weekly prime time slot, which relies on a continuing plot that unfolds in a serial fashion, episode by episode. Serials typically follow main plot arcs that span entire seasons or even the full run of the series, which sets them apart from regular sitcoms. The biggest tool used in serials is the use of cliffhangers which is still prevalent in adventure shows, it is just that they are now typically used just before a commercial break and the viewer need only wait a few minutes to see its resolution. Shows such as "Lost" and "24" exemplify this scenario the best because they always...

Task I Read the text and translate

Task II True or False

1. Most people now days seem to find this entertainment fix with television.

2. A major category of TVdoesn't shows is the situation comedy.

3. The situation usually focuses on family, workplace, or a group of friends.

4. Most sitcoms aren't a half-hour in length and aired weekly.

Task III Find 12 words from word "Entertainment"

Task IV Retelling

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Оқу ісінің орынбасары: Б.Сағынғалиева

Date

Form IX A,B,V English

Teacher: Z.Shamanaeva

Theme of the lesson

Types of entertainment

Learning objectives

To develop the pupils' knowledge about types of entertainment

To involve the pupils' skills in critical thinking

Express their opinions

Learning outcomes

Learners will speak about types of entertainment

Learners will increase skills on reading, translating and speaking, writing

Main idea

The skills involved in critical thinking include the ability to recognize,

To teach to work creatively, to pay attention to their pronunciation

To develop learners' skills on reading, listening, translating, asking questions each others, speaking, writing.

New methods of teaching

Work in pairs , Circle time

Resources

English book, stick notes, Internet materials, assessment sheets

Module

Critical thinking, Identifying gifted and talented learners, Age-related differences, Learning how to learn , Assessment for and of learning, Using new technology in teaching, Dialogic teaching

Teacher's notes

Stages of the lesson

Time

Teacher's activity

Pupils' activity

Organization

moment

5min

a) Greeting

b)Warm up

Students wish each other greetings.

Checking up the

home task

10 min

Retelling the text "Time circle"

" Celebrities "

Students will speak about cinema

Presentation of

new material

5min

I.Read and translate it.

II. True or False

III.Find the words

IV.Retelling

Students will do tasks.

Practice and production

15min

Task1.Read and translate it.

Task 2. True or False

1. Most people now days seem to find this entertainment fix with television.

2. A major category of TVdoesn't shows is the situation comedy.

3. The situation usually focuses on family, workplace, or a group of friends.

4. Most sitcoms aren't a half-hour in length and aired weekly.

Task III Find 12 words from word "Entertainment"

Task 4. Retelling

Students work in pairs .