Olga:
| Mary, do you often watch TV?
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| Well, I suppose that I watch some television most days. My television watching tends to happen late at night for sort of domestic reasons and work resources, so it’s restricted by that.
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Olga:
| What programmes are your favourite? Do you watch news programmes?
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Mary:
| Actually I watch a lot of news programmes. I nearly always watch the news, or current affairs programmes. I’m quite a sports fan as well, so if there is any sport on I tend to watch it: cricket or football, or something like that, if I’ve got nothing better to do.
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Olga:
| When is television on in your family?
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Mary:
| It’s on in the late afternoon and late at night. But I know that in some homes the television goes on as a kind of background and people don’t actually watch it in any kind of concentrated way.
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Olga:
| Well, I believe some people don’t realize that some TV programmes are a great danger, especially to children.
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Mary:
| You are right in a way, but I think television can be a great benefit to children too. I think there are a lot of good programmes that give them good educational information. And I also think television’s good for introducing children to good literature. There are often good children’s stories which are dramatized for television.
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Olga:
| Well, I can’t but agree with you that television can be both good and evil. One should only be reasonable in the choice of programmes.
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Mary:
| Right you are.
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