This Handbook (LESSONS 17-32) on basic conversational English prepared for the purpose of reaching the thousands of Cantonese-speaking families in the San Francisco Bay Area, is designed to guide and supplement home study of the television series, SUT YUNG YING YEE. Each Handbook lesson corresponds to a half hour TV program of the same title, and should be studied together with it. The series and Handbook are meant to be the first step toward eventual mastery of the American English language. This handbook represents an unusual major joint effort between a commercial television station and the Chinese Community to overcome the problem of language barrier.
This book focuses on people with interesting jobs, including a cartoon artist, a radio host, and a man who trains animals for movies and television shows.
Reading Sex and the City (Reading Contemporary Television)
HBO's hit series Sex and the City has a huge international fan base and has picked up major awards. This highly readable critical celebration of the life and times of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha looks at the series as a new departure for television. It discusses the show's position in an increasingly complex television landscape, and pioneers innovative approaches to the study of contemporary television culture. The book explores, among many other issues, female fandom and fan culture; fashion and fashion journalism; male archetypes and the search for Mr. Right; third wave feminism; and of course, sex and the single girl.
Street Talk -2-: Slang Used by Teens, Rappers, Surfers, & Popular American Television Shows
Street Talk 2 takes a close look at teen, rap, and surfer slang, as well as everyday slang used consistently in popular American television shows, traffic reports, news broadcasts, television weather reports, and sports broadcasts, which are of special importance to non-native speakers who are trying to integrate into our culture
As far as we know, this is trie first time anyone has put together a volume of general TV quotes—rather surprising, considering how popular television is, and how many other collections of quotes have made it into print. Maybe people assume there's nothing on television worth quoting. Well, there is But you have to watch a lot of TV to find it. Hidden somewhere between inane sitcom jokes and "slam-bang" action is the subtle glue that holds television programs together—bits of wisdom ... poignant comments about life ... even political satire. It was our mission—once we chose to accept it—to find these nuggets.
