文档介绍：Unit Six Why Are we addicted to soaps ?
New Century English, Book I
郑州铁路职业技术学院
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Background Information
Soap Opera
A serial on television or radio that deals with the lives of a group of characters, especially in a melodramatic or sentimental way. The name derives from the fact that they were originally often sponsored by soap panies.
Comedy
A drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending; the genre of dramatic literature dealing with ic or with the serious in a light or satirical manner.
Tragedy
Dramatic genre that presents the heroic or moral struggle of an individual, culminating in his or her ultimate defeat. While serious drama edy are found in nearly every culture and time period, tragic plays appear chiefly in societies that maintain a fixed hierarchy of political and religious beliefs. Only when spectators share with the playwright a particular social vision and system of class-based values can they empathize with the fall of the protagonist (central character) from an elevated position into bleak despair or annihilation.
Are you one of those who would glue to television watching their favorite serial every night ? Why or why not ?
Discussion
Some ideas
advert
boring
busy
fun
Questions
What do some critics mean by saying soaps are “ no more than mindless entertainment”?
What have good soap operas eeded in doing?
Over the years, there have been endless arguments about the value of soaps. For some critics, they are no more than mindless entertainment. Others believe they are the only programmers that tell the truth and show society as it really is. Whatever the critics say, the fact remains that millions of people tune in eagerly to their favorite serial every day. The soap opera has eeded in capturing the imagination of the entire world.
Examples:
We always tune in to Channel 8 to watch 10 o’clock national and international news.
tune in to
set a radio or television to receive broadcasts from a