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What’s on ‘the box»?
Over 99 per cent of British homes have a TV and the average person watches “the box” 26 hours a week. There are four (non-satellite) TV channels in Britain: BBC1, BBC2, I TV and Channel 4. BBC1 and BBC2, the two state channels, do not show adverts. ITV and Channel 4, the two independent channels, do show adverts.
BBC1 and ITV tend to broadcast popular programmes: sports programmes, recent films, the news, game shows, children’s programmes and soaps. BBC2 and Channel 4 show programmes which usually attract much smaller audiences: TV plays, classical concerts, foreign films and programmes for minority groups. Only eight per cent of British homes subscribe to satellite or cable TV.
Let’s watch a video
About 70 per cent of UK households now have a video recorder. People mostly use them to record TV programmes which they then watch at a more convenient time.
Teenagers aged between 14 and 16 like getting together with friends to watch a video. They often choose films with an 18 rating. These videos ore unsuitable for people below the age of 18 because they are violent, but many teenagers watch them anyway.
Radio waves
The BBC broadcasts on five national and 32 local radio stations. Each of the BBC radio stations specialises in a particular type of programme: Radio 1 specialises in rock music; Radio 2 in popular music and light entertainment; Radio 3 in classical music; Radio 4 in current affairs and drama; Radio 5 in current affairs and sport.
Most people listen to the radio in the morning. They like background music while getting ready to go to school or driving to work.
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How many types of newspapers are there in Britain?
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Do British listen to the radio?
Geography of the usa Warming-up questions
What do the stars of the American flag stand for?
How many stars are there on the US flag?
What is the capital of the USA?
The United States of America is a big and diverse country. It is the fourth largest country in the world after Russia, Canada and China.
The United States of America is in the central part of the North American Continent. The country is washed by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. In the north, the USA shares its border with Canada and in the south with Mexico.
The present territory of the USA consists of three parts:
The USA proper (the continental USA);
Alaska (in the north-western projection of North America);
The Hawaiian Islands (in the centre of the Pacific Ocean).
The continental US is divided into three areas:
Eastern –highland;
Central – a plain;
Western – mountaneous, including the Rocky Mountains, the Cordillera and Sierra Nevada.
The chief rivers are the Mississippi River with its tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio, also the Rio Grand, the Colorado and the Columbia. The Mississippi River – called by Native Americans “Father of Waters” – lives up to that tribute to its size, power, and majesty. The second longest river in the world after the Nile, the Mississippi extends almost 4,000 miles.
In the northern part of the USA there is a region of the five Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario). The Lakes play an important role in the economic life of both the United States of America and Canada.
The USA has many climates. There are places that are warm all year round, and there are places covered with ice and snow where summer never comes.
The USA is a highly developed industrial country. It is rich in oil, gas, copper, gold, silver and other metals. The country has rich deposits of coal and iron ore in the Appalachian range, and oil and gas in Texas and California.
Of all the regions in the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii are in sharp contrast to each other. The geography and climate and kinds of people who have settled them have shaped their destinies differently. But all are bound together by a way of life that is American.