Critical habits and experiences

English home language

Grade 9

A look at television

Module 10

Critical habits and experiences

Activity 1:

To be able to review own habits and experiences critically

[lo 5.5.2]

Television and You: How well do you know yourself?

Answer the the followinq questions as truthfully as possible by saying YES or SOMETIMES or NO.

Do you watch television in the morning?

Are you allowed to watch television programmes made for adults?

Do you watch television in the afternoon?

Do you do your homework while watching television?

Are you allowed to watch television until late at night?

Are you allowed to watch anything?

Do you like it if your parents tell you not to watch certain programmes?

Do your parent(s) watch television programmes with you?

Do you enjoy environmental programmes on television?

Do you think cartoons are too violent?

Do you think you watch too much television?

Do you play the sport you watch on television?

Activity 2:

To be able to motivate own point of view and show flexibility and select and explore topics through using notes and lists.

• Your educator will explain how to do group work effectively by going over the following notes with you and then you will discuss the findings of the above questionnaire with your group:

Choose a leader for your group.

(S)he keeps the group focused on the task at hand.

(S)he rotates reading of the questions (every person in the group should read once).

Any discussion ensures all participate and all opinions are heard.

All persons in the group should take notes of group opinions, answers, and comments.

• Now, re-do the above but this time give the group findings:
• In your group:

Establish the general views of the group for each question.

Select two questions and discuss the advantages, disadvantages, causes and effects.

Write down some conclusions that you have come to individually.

How well does the group fare?

Do you watch television in the morning?

Are you allowed to watch television programmes made for adults?

Do you watch television in the afternoon?

Do you do your homework while watching television?

Are you allowed to watch television until late at night?

Are you allowed to watch anything?

Do you like it if your parents tell you not to watch certain programmes?

Do your parent(s) watch television programmes with you?

Do you enjoy environmental programmes on television?

Do you think cartoons are too violent?

Do you think you watch too much television?

Do you play the sport you watch on television?

• Final, individual concluding comment:

Activity 3:

To be able to use common prefixes to work out meanings

[lo 6.1.6]

• Read the following quietly to yourself:

• A prefix is a word part that has meaning of its own.
• A prefix can help you make meaning from words unfamiliar to you.

• Let us look at the following words with the same prefix:

• The word ‘television’ starts with the prefix “tele-”.
• Television = ‘Tele’ + ‘vision’
• ‘Tele’ = Over a distance /from afar; ‘vision’ = what you can see.
• Therefore ‘television’ means ‘to see over a distance / from afar’

TEST YOUR SKILLS

The meanings of the following words are all jumbled.