How Television Is a Learning Tool Outline: 1. Television plays an important role in our daily life. 2. There are many advantages in watching TV, we can benefit from TV programes. 3. There exist many disadvantages in watching TV. 4. We can get a lot and improve our abilities from TV programes. How Television Is a Learning Tool Nowadays, with the development of technology and science, television plays an important role in our daily life. Some of TV programs are funny, some of them are educational, television becomes an important tool to broadcast cultures and information to us, we can learn about the world from television at homes. There are many advantages in watching TV, we can benefit from TV programes. First, it broadens our horizon. Television as an important tool to spread information, we can know about a lot of things at home and abroad, such as, current events, different cultures and customs between nations, advanced science and technology studies. Second, we could promote our abilities of writing and listening by watching TV, especially some foreign TV programes or movies can help us learning foreign languages and cultures, knowing more about anecdotes and seeing more beautiful scene all over the word, and then it make the foundation for traveling or learning to abroad. Third, we can improve the sense of humor, imagination and the ability of expression, and learn some skills of communication from TV programes. Fourth, some TV programes can increase our sense of responsibility and the patriotic spirit, sometimes they even will excite our inspiration. For example, some history documentaries could make us know more about the progress of origin and evolution of humans, some food programes not only introduce a variety of delicious food to us but also some of them will teach us some cooking skills. Fifth, as for some people who are often on a business trip, the accurate weather broadcast is so important, by the way, we can know about the air quality is mild contamination or serious contamination and so on. In addition, when we are in bad mood, we could watch comedy to relax ourselves and they will make us happy. Above of all, there is no doubt that television is a good learning tool for us. Every coin has tow sides. But there exist many disadvantages in watching TV. On the one hand, some children who are addicted in TV programes become lazy, and even get tired of going to school, their eyesight will go down if people watch TV keep a long time. On the other hand, because of a majority of children are fond of imitation and are curious about everything, some TV programes are so dangerous that don’t fit children, such as parts of kung-fu movies and fighting films. What’s more, some TV programes are just for adults, they are maybe bad for children’s growth and mental health. So, parents should choose some advantageous TV programes for children, such as cartoons, common sense of life, documentaries about history and science. In a word, nowadays every TV station releases all kinds of wonderful TV programes to increase audience rating, sometimes we don’t know how to choose. In my opinion, we should make reasonable of time to watch television and make full use of television, so we can get a lot and improve our abilities. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/9739e4f5dd88d0d232d46a36.html