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Report Text about Television
Television, or TV, is one of
humanity's most important means of communication. It brings pictures and sounds
from around the world into millions of homes.
People with a television set can sit
in their house and watch the president makes a speech or visits a foreign
country. They can see a war being fought, and they can wacth government leaders
try to bring about peace. Through television, viewers at home can see and learn
about peopl, places, and things in a away lands. Television even takes viewers
out of this world as the astronauts explore outer space.
In addition to all these things,
television brings its viewers a steady stream of programmes that are designed
to entertain. In fact, TV provides many more entertainment programmes than any
other kind of information media. The programmes include action-packed dramas,
light comedies, soap operas, sports events, cartoons, quizzes, variety shows
and motion pictures.
More than 83 million homes in the
United States - or 98% of all the country's homes - have at least one
television set. On the average, a television set is in use in each home for
about 6 3/4 hours each day. As a result, television has an important influence
on how people spend their time, as well as on what they see and learn. After
they arrive from work, they usually watch TV. Then, the importance of
television is proven. (Taken from The New Book of
Knowledge)
Mobile Phone ( Report Text )
A mobile phone (also called mobile, cellular phone, cell
phone or handphone) is an electronic device used for full duplex two-way radio
telecommunications over a cellular network of base stations known as cell
sites. Mobile phones differ from cordless telephones, which only offer
telephone service within limited range through a single base station attached
to a fixed land line, for example within a home or an office.
In addition to being a telephone, modern mobile phones also
support many additional services, and accessories, such as SMS (or text)
messages, email, Internet access, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared, camera, MMS
messaging, MP3 player, radio and GPS. Low-end mobile phones are often referred
to as feature phones, whereas high-end mobile phones that offer more advanced
computing ability are referred to as smartphones.
Elephants: The Amazing Animals
Elephants are the largest land animals on earth. They have the largest brains
of any mammal. Elephants talk to each other. Researchers have discovered
more than 50 different types of calls that they use to communicate with each
other. Their trunks are strong enough to pick up trees but sensitive enough to
pick up a flower. They use them as tools to sweep paths, to scratch themselves,
to swat flies, and to draw in the dirt. They are good swimmers and use their
trunks like snorkels. They live together in family groups. They help each other
when in trouble. They join together to care for and rescue their young.
(Dit. PSMP, 2006)
of any mammal. Elephants talk to each other. Researchers have discovered
more than 50 different types of calls that they use to communicate with each
other. Their trunks are strong enough to pick up trees but sensitive enough to
pick up a flower. They use them as tools to sweep paths, to scratch themselves,
to swat flies, and to draw in the dirt. They are good swimmers and use their
trunks like snorkels. They live together in family groups. They help each other
when in trouble. They join together to care for and rescue their young.
(Dit. PSMP, 2006)
THE CHEETAH
The cheetah is the fastest animal on land. Itcan run 100 kilometers an hour. It is now rare
and is one of the animals which is in danger of
extinction.
The cheetah has a small head and ears, and
long, powerful legs. It always hunts and chases
its prey on open ground.
This is a different way of hunting from the
other “big cats.” They like to stay in and near trees to catch their prey. The
cheetah is also different from other cats because it cannot draw in its claws.
(Source: Abbs, Brian, et.al. Take Off. Student Book 2, p. 52)
