Unit 8 Media Mix Lesson 1 What’s on?
Talk about movies and television shows
Work with words
- A Work in pairs. Write the words in the correct columns.
Can you add any other words?
a CD a comic book a magazine a movie music
a newspaper a podcast a television show a video a website
Watch Read Listen to
television a book the radio
B Work in pairs.
Talk about the things from Exercise 1 you like and don’t like doing.
- Match the television shows and movies to the photos.
action/adventure cartoon talk show comedy
cooking show documentary game show horror
news science fiction weather western
- Which things in Exercise 2 can you only see on television
and not at the movie theater?
- Complete the conversation with these words.
Mike: Did you see the baseball score on the 1) ________?
Jess: No, I was watching that new 2) _______ show.
It was really funny.
Mike: There’s a 3)________ movie on later called Tower of Terror.
Do you want to see it?
Jess: No. If I watch it, I’ll have bad dreams and I won’t sleep.
Mike: How about a 4) _______? You like horses and cowboys.
Jess: No, thanks. There’s an interesting nature 5) _________ about wild animals.
Mike: Ok. But first can we watch the Be My Guest 6) _______? Sometimes the
interviews are really good.
- Speak Work in pairs. Do a television and movie survey.
Compare your answers.
Phrase bytes
I like reading books.
I really enjoy watching television.
I don’t like …