Vocabulary :

• Television genres (Wikipedia)
  "This category lists genres of television programming."

• Television program (Wikipedia)
  1 Program Content : 1.1 Genres - 1.1.1 Scripted entertainment - 1.1.2 Unscripted entertainment - 1.1.3 Informational
  2 Development
  3 Production
  4 Distribution : 4.1 Seasons/Series - 4.2 A UK/US comparison
  

• Colloquial names for television (websters-online-dictionary.org)
  + Synonyms: Television (vers le milieu de la page)
  + Expressions: Television

• Television program (websters-online-dictionary.org)

• List of fictional robots and androids - 1 Theatre 2 Literature 3 Films 4 Television... (Wikipedia)

• Reality TV News (bigbtv.com)
  
  

• Reality TV Planet News : Fear Factor - Survivor...

Facts :

• See Facts (Media page)

• Childhood 'screen time': Warning over TV and computers - 21 May 2012
  "Parents need to do more to stop children spending too much time watching television or playing computer games, according to a psychologist."
  (BBC)

• Famous Japanese TV and Movie Characters (tx.english-ch.com) - UPDATED

  

• Samsung's 'future-proof' voice-controlled television
  "A "smart" internet-connected television that has the ability to have its hardware upgraded every year has been unveiled by Samsung...
  In addition to its "smart evolution capability" Samsung has also added gesture, voice and face recognition features to the ES8000 model..."
  (BBC)

• Critical mass: The Independent's cultural picks of the year (2011)
  "We've seen 12 months of famous returns, fabulous new works, and once-in-a-lifetime exhibitions. Relive the best here..."
  - with a gallery
  (independent.co.uk)

Listening :

• Danny : my favourite TV series - " Danny talks about his favourite episode of 'Friends'."
  Tags : mes goûts ; télévision
  (audio-lingua.eu)
  
  
  
  

• REALITY TELEVISION : Text + AUDIO
  (anglaisfacile.com)

• TV Guide (esl-lab.com:80)
  Topic: "A man and woman discuss what they want to watch on TV, with an unusual ending."
  I. Pre-Listening Exercises
  II. Listening Exercises
  III. Post-Listening Exercises
  

• Is TV a good or bad thing ? (elllo.org)
  
  

• see TV series

• LOST - "Listen and find the missing words." (Soundguide)
  (cliquer à gauche sur Sujets divers / Séries télé)

  

• Task Town is for students who want to participate with the audio. (elllo.org)
  As you listen you need to make choices or interact with the audio. Have Fun!
  What's on TV

• TV Commercials - Video Listening Exercises (eolf.univ-fcomte.fr) :
  Alexis Lechine Wines - Bathroom Cleaner - Baggies Food Wraps - Beech-Nut Baby Food - Bounty Paper Towels - Cherrios and V-8 Juice - Dentu-Creme - Chevrolet - Wonderful Fords
  
  

• UK Television Adverts -
  "adverts for Abbey National, Adidas, Becks, Boddingtons, British Airways, Budweiser, Carling, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Dime bar, Dry Blackthorn, Dunlop, Frontera 4x4, Guinness, Honda, KitKat, Labatt's, Levi's, Lilt, Lynx, Morgan stanley, Nike, Nintendo gamecube, Olde English cider, o2, Orange, Pringles, Reebok, Sony, Stella Artois, Strongbow, Tango, Tennent's Pilsner,TTA, T-mobile,Vodafone, Volvo, Worthingtons."

• "Short sound clips together with their transcripts.
  Clips come directly from commercially produced TV series and movies, like Star Wars and Black Adder." (The English weblab)

• Finding Faulty Logic in Ads (tv411.org)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Abbreviations of U.S. Television Networks and Channels (a4esl.org)
  
  

• Turn off the TV : Vocabulary + Interactive exercises (englishpage.com)
  
  

• 50s TV Heroes: Heroic Gestures and Other Habits (funtrivia.com)
  
  

• Desperate Housewives
  "How well do you know the characters of this American series?"
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
  
  

• Television - (about.com)
  "Put each of the following words or phrases in the correct gap." :
  "program, channel, commercials, quiz shows, subjective, prime-time, documentary, media, newscast, viewers, soap operas, watch, switch, surfing,
  couch potato, talk shows, series, movie, network, cable, infomercials"
  
  

• Television - (British Council)
  "At the top are five words related to television.
  Below are sentences about television, with gaps in them.
  Can you put the words in the right spaces?"
  
  
  
  

• Reality Shows (British Council) - an article with a comprehension exercise (interactive)
  
  
  
  

• Television and the Media Quiz - ex :
  ""Those were today's headlines. And now it's Angela McCarthy with her weather ...... ". forecast / broadcast / presentation" (world-english)

• Finding Faulty Logic in Ads (tv411.org)

Exercises TO PRINT :

• TV Worksheets (teachingenglish.org.uk)

• My TV Guide - activity to print (fi.edu:80)

• My TV Guide - activity to print (teachingtime.co.uk:80)

• Television - Vocabulary
  - Matching exercises to print 1) with pictures 2) with definitions
  (Ac. Nancy-Metz)

  

  
  

• TV COMMERCIAL (Académie de Montpellier)
  - Une grille de lecture sur les spots de publicité et documents publicitaires -

• Activities for the ESL Classroom Incorporating Reality-based TV (iteslj)

Lesson plans :

• See Lesson plans ('Publicité')

• Larry King to Quit His CNN Show (1st July, 2010) - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  Larry King was "an American television and radio host."
  He "conducted some 40,000 interviews with politicians, athletes, entertainers, and other newsmakers..."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• Reality TV - une séquence (prévue pour le lycée - à adapter pour le collège)
  Mots-clefs : B1 - B2 - BY-NC-SA - exp. orale - EOi - EOc - exp. écrite - comp. orale - comp. écrite
  (Ac. Toulouse)
  
  Sommaire :
  

  • Tâche finale
  • Supports (la plupart sont des vidéos)
  • Évaluations
  • Variante GAL

  Documents :
  - Déroulement séquence
  - Fiches élèves + corrigés
  
  

• 21 November is World Television Day.  Practise your English while you learn about television.
  "Have a look at the articles, story, word game, cartoon, trivia and links."
  (British Council)
  
  

• Soap operas - with a text you can listen to
  Vocabulary explained
  + Activities to download
  + Related links : The Flatmates - EastEnders - Coronation Street - Emmerdale - The Soap Show
  (BBC)

  

• Survivor Sequence + the different genres of TV reality shows
  (Florinda FERNANDES - Calvados)
  
  

• Séquence - Reality TV (A2 - B1)
  "La séquence s'inscrit dans la perspective actionnelle et s'inspire des scénarii du DCL.
  Il s'agira pour les élèves de collecter de l'information dans différents types de documents pour mener à bien une mission.
  La tâche finale /la mission à accomplir:
  Imaginer un nouveau programme de TV- réalité et en faire une présentation écrite et orale devant un jury de professionnels."
  (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

• Reality TV shows, Big Brother
  - une séquence "qui part de "Big Brother", l'émission de TV réalité et débouche sur l'étude de "1984", extrait du livre de G. Orwell.
  Dans une perspective actionnelle, les tâches demandées aux élèves s'enchainent, dans les différentes activités langagières
  (Compréhension orale , Production Orale, Compréhension Ecrite, Production Ecrite)
  pour parvenir à la tâche finale : simulation d'un débat à la radio."
  + évaluation (compréhension orale) proposée à plusieurs niveaux : B2 à A2
  Séquence prévue pour une classe de 1ère, à adapter pour le collège.
  (Pascale Catoire - Ac. Orléans-Tours)
  
  

• Young people and television - a lesson plan
  "In this lesson the students will look at the television viewing habits of young people in the UK and compare them to the habits of
  young people in their own country. They will begin by making television posters, then they will do a split reading activity in pairs.
  The text is about television habits in the UK. They will complete a questionnaire about their own viewing habits and discuss how
  their habits are different from those of young people in the UK.
  There is an optional role playing activity where students have to agree on what to watch on television."
  (British Council)
  

• ESL/EFL Lessons Using Movies (iteslj.org)
  - Jigsaw Reading Activity Using TV Listings

• British English: Television – worksheet 1 and teacher's notes 1 - General lesson plan | Pre-intermediate
  " To practise vocabulary used to talk about television."
  (onestopenglish.com)

• British English: Television – worksheet 2 and teacher's notes 2 - General lesson plan | Upper intermediate
  " To practise vocabulary used to talk about television."
  (onestopenglish.com)
  

• Television shoes - a lesson plan (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  THE ARTICLE
  WARM-UPS
  BEFORE READING / LISTENING
  WHILE READING / LISTENING
  AFTER READING
  LANGUAGE
  DISCUSSION
  SPEAKING
  LISTENING
  HOMEWORK

• TV Turn Off Week - a lesson plan (english-4u.com) Inscription nécessaire
  Language function: discussing issues, presenting opinions, reading comprehension
  Vocabulary area: television, types of TV programmes
  - with Teacher's Notes

• Television does more harm than good (Frankie Meehan)
  

Webquests :

• 'Friends' Web Quest (cecnbouvier.educanet2.ch)

  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Television - interactive crosswords (BBC)

• Couch Potatoes
  "Watch the video and listen to Peter Carter, then play the game."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

Conversation questions :

• TV archetypes: Which one are you?
  "A new US documentary series on PBS, America in Primetime, explores the relationship between TV characters and society over the past six decades...
  The catchphrases and clothes may change but the archetype endures, subtly reflecting and shaping the culture and even the way we act and behave, the series suggests."
  But how much influence have these characters really had? And are they as rooted in reality as their creators claim?"
  (BBC)

  

• Filling their minds with death: TV violence and children (turnoffyourtv.com)

• Entertainment : TV, Radio, Games, Gambling, ... (iteslj.org)

• Is television a malign influence on society? (idebate.org)
  Pros and Cons
  

Poems :

• Television is a drug
  "The inspiration of this video comes from Todd Alcott's poem, Television."
  (vimeo.com)
  
  

Songs :

• PUPAJIM - Television Addict (YouTube) + LYRICS :
  "Just a story,
  About the disease of the century
  You are addict
  The First thing you do when you arrive at home is to turn on the television
  You channel up..."
  (lyricsmania.com)

• Television, the Drug of the Nation - The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy  (YouTube)
  + the LYRICS
  "T.V. it  satellite links 
  our United States of Unconsciousness 
  Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive 
  The methadone metronome pumping out 
  150 channels 24 hours a day 
  you can flip through all of them 
  and still there's nothing worth watching" 
  (artists.letssingit.com)

• I Watch Too Much TV by Alev Lenz
  "I think I watch too much TV
  I think they sometimes lie to me
  I think they're also trying to scare me
  I can't sleep through the night
  Although you're by my side
  Life is dangerous on TV
  Spinning stories in my mind
  Of what there could be...
  Maybe I'll go and read a book"
  (lyricsmania.com)

• Television Addict by Pupajim - a song
  (YouTube)

  

• Génériques de Séries Télé et Génériques de Dessins Animés - AUDIO (coucoucircus.org)

• Trouble Every Day by Frank Zappa :
  "Well Im about to get up sick
  From watchin my t.v.
  Been checkin out the news
  Until my eyeballs fail to see
  I mean to say that every day
  Is just another rotten mess..."

• Couch Potato by Al Yankovic (You can listen to it)
  
  
  
  
  

• Throw Away Your Television by Red Hot Chili Peppers
  (sing365.com)

Cartoons : (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.)

REALITY TV
		Reality TV vs Harry Potter (cagle.com)