2. Paco enjoys TV series

Actividad de lectura

After an intense day visiting Cardiff, Paco is exhausted. His feet hurt for walking so much. Before going to sleep, he decides to watch TV at the hotel room. He starts surfing from one channel to the next with the remote control.

TV is an incredibly varied media: BBC 1 is showing the News, followed by the weather forecast; on BBC 2, there is a documentary about Africa; ITV is showing a popular British soap opera called Coronation Street; Big Brother on Channel 4! Paco hates reality shows; on Channel 5, there are adverts!; on some other channels there are films, cartoons for children, or popular game shows such as Who wants to be a Millionaire?.

Paco decides to go back to Channel 5 after the advertising break, and they are showing Friends. He has seen it in Spain before and he decides to try. It is a very successful American comedy series. The main characters are three men and three women living in New York. In this episode, the women are scared because they have found mice outside their flats.

After about half an hour, Friends is over. Paco is very tired so he turns off the TV and quickly falls asleep.

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What examples of irregular plurals can you find in the text?

Comprueba lo aprendido

Read the text again and decide if these statements are true or false.

Pregunta 1

1. Paco is not interested in Big Brother.

Pregunta 2

2. He has never heard of Friends.

Pregunta 3

3. Friends takes place in Washington.

Pregunta 4

4. Coronation Street is a soap opera.

Ejercicio Resuelto

Can you write the singular form of these plural nouns that appear in the text?

SINGULAR PLURAL
  feet
  media
  children
  series
  men
  women
  mice

Importante

Vocabulary is very important to be able to understand a language and to produce a piece of spoken or written language. In this section we are learning vocabulary related to TV.

Here is a list of useful words related to television that you should learn:

  • remote control
  • channel
  • media
  • TV programme
  • news
  • weather forecast
  • documentary

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  • series
  • episode
  • turn on/ off
  • reality show
  • watch T.V.
  • see a film

Para saber más

And if you want to watch some bits of the TV series Friends , click here . It's very funny!

 

In the next section, we are going to finish with irregular plurals. Let's go!