How do movies or television influence people’s behavior?

[Mahdi]

How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
Nowadays people tend to watch television more than before and watching so much time television has made some of them couch potato. Television has had other impacts such as sense of unity in a country and increasing awareness about different aspects of society.
To begin with, In my opinion, People tend to spend in front of television watching various programs such as news, movies and series more than the past. I think that housewives who spend a big fraction of their time inside home like to pursue different series. Therefore they have less physical activities and this is a cause which will make them overweight. In my view, if a person watch television more than two hours a day, It may have negative effects for his health condition.
In addition, televisions have brought sense of unity to countries. Consider the situation that a countries soccer team has an important contest and lots of people hurry up to arrive home and watch the play. All of them will become joyful if their team win and will become sad and desperate if their team loose. So, they all have same sense about the event and I feel that this will improve sense of understanding between different members of a society.
Finally, I think that nowadays people have more information about events which take place around them due to the fact that they like to watch television news. My own experience demonstrates the concept very well. My mother is seventy six years old and she lives alone. I visit her twice or three times a week. She is always talking about political conditions of our country because she watches television news everyday. If television was not invented, I think that people would not have known much about these issues especially older ones.
To sum up , I feel that television has had a great impact on our lives in different aspects which I mentioned some of them in the essay.

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from a physical science class

[Luschen]

Hi Mahdi, I thought this was one of your better essays as far as content is concerned.
Your soccer team example was especially good. You still have a few grammar errors though and some awkward sounding phrases.