Intermediate Leisure Leisure Activities Worksheet 4: TV guide

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Worksheet 4: TV guide

A. Read the TV guide.

ABC NINE SBS 6.00 Animal Hospital (G) 6.00 News (CC , WS) 4.00 Hi-5 (P, C, G) 6.30 What’s Cooking? 6.30 Australia’s Funniest 5.00 Cartoon corner (C) Cooking Chinese food (G, CC) Home Video Show (PG) 6.00 Cycling 7.00 News 7.00 The Garden Show Global Village (G, R, CC) 7.30 Australian Life Winter flowers (G, CC) 6.30 World News Living in the Centre 7.30 Jay Dubellu’s 7.00 World Sport (CC) Aboriginal stories from Alice Collections 7.30 My Life Springs (PG) Wonderful world of collecting. Fatime talks about her life in 8.30 Movie (M) Kosova (M, v, CC) Life with the Stuarts 8.30 Who Wants to be a 8.30 Movie Millionaire? Quiz show Comedy about life in a little Number 4 (2005) (G, CC) English village (Russian) The case of (PG, CC) mistaken identity for a young TEN couple young couple 5.00 News ( WS, CC) holidaying in Moscow (MA15+, d, l, v ,CC) SEVEN 6.00 The Simpsons (R, G, CC) 6.00 News 6.30 Neighbours (PG, CC) 6.30 Today Tonight Current 7.00 Cooking with Jamie Affairs (PG, WS, CC) Cooking easy winter meals (G, 7.00 Famous Faces CC) David Beckham(PG , CC) 8.00 The World of Jackie Chan 7.30 Football Australian Rules Jackie Chan talks about his films (M, a, v) Collingwood v Brisbane (WS, CC) 10.45 World Soccer Italy v Brazil

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B. Match the abbreviations with the words.

TV programs have a rating to describe the content of the show. These rating help you to decide what programs are appropriate to watch.

C suitable only for mature audiences M children MA15+ drugs WS pre-school P violence d wide screen v mature audiences PG general G language R adult themes CC parental guidance a repeat l closed captions

C. Answer these questions.

1. Where might you find this text?  In a newspaper.  In a dictionary.  In a TV guide.

2. What is on Channel nine at 6.30?

3. Australian Life is ______hours after Animal Hospital.

4. If you have children under the age of 10 which programs could they watch?

5. Which programs shouldn’t children watch? Why?

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6. If you want to learn the English names for food which program might help you?

7. Which programs have been on TV before?

8. Which program from this guide would you like to watch? Why?

9. Why do some programs have closed captions (CC)?

10. How long does the AFL program go for?

11. If you get home from work at 6.45 pm, which news could you watch?

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