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Unit 5 violence on TV

P：TV is one of the prevalent media influences in kid’s lives According to some reports , youth ages 6-19 average about 6 hours of screen time per day.

On the one hand children can get some useful information easily from TV not only the voice but also the colorful pictures, which can greatly arouse interesting of the children.

S：On the contary ,I think TV have negative influences on children.

1 increase fear violence on TV

2 ignore to real- life violence they imitate what they see on tv everyday ugly language and attitude aggressive behaviors

3 activities are crucial for adolescent to healthy mental and physical TV is harmful to their eyes stomach intestines

P:you know,Almost 98% American families have a TV。Kid spend more time watching TV than going to school。

S：the more tvshow you watch the more violence kids get. Cartoon have more acts of violence than adult TV shows.A child see about 100000 acts of violence on TV by age 12

P:It is recently reported that there are two kinds of effect.

First Immediate effects of TV violPence

Children copy the violence they see on TV

hit and kick a doll

second Long term effects of TV violence

When children watch a lot of TV , they are more violent in school when they are older. So there is a link between TV violence and real violence

S: children should make good uses of tv，parents should supervise their kids` tv time, and which shows that suitable for them