文档介绍：How TV Violence
Affects Kids
imagine
1. What is the situation?
2. Who suffers most from TV violence? Why?
Read para 1-2 to think about the following questions:
have effect on 对…起作用
allocate (to) vt. 分派;分配
significantly ad.
preschool a. ;就学前的
point out 指出
distinguish …from 分辨
subtlety n. 微妙;精细;敏锐;细微的差别;微妙之处
Violence on TV has long-lasting effects on children’s behavior.
1982-1986, the number of violent acts on TV increased from 19-27 per hour.
Preschool children.
can’t fully distinguish fantasy from reality
understanding is not yet well developed
Undermine the imaginative and the expressive functions
Can’t help the kids understand their feelings and interpret the world well.
What are the effects on play?
tend to do 趋向于做某事
undermine vt. 暗中破坏;逐渐损害
jeopardize vt. ;危及
make sense of = understand well
apply to 应用于
What parents can do...
appear to be mercially adv. 商业上;通商上
make critiques of 做出批评,做出评价
Monitor the amount and the kind of television.
Help your children to interpret what they see.
Ask the teacher about their policy on war play and toy weapons.
Work together to control the amount of violent programs and the number of violent toys.
Look for healthy programs as an alternative.
The average American child:
Spends:
28 hours a week with TV
30 hours a week in a classroom
39 minutes a week talking one–on–one with a parent
By high school graduation:
Spends 15,000 hours in front of a TV set, and only 11,000 hours in a classroom
Observes 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders
Group Activity
How does TV violence mislead children?
What should government do?
What should the medium do?
How does TV violence mislead children?
Violence is often rewarded and seldom has negative consequences.
- 73% of criminals on TV are unpunished (National Television Violence Study, 1992)
- Heroes are rarely unpunished
- no bleeding, no one gets hurt
- people killed just disappear
Violence is everywhere.
Violence is justified.
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