Use of English A1. Couch Potatoes

Parents and teachers always … that teenagers are ‘couch potatoes’ and spend all their time in front of studio TV programmes.

But is it true that … people have ‘square eyes"?

The results of a recent survey show that people in Britain … watch twenty-seven and a half hours of TV every week - almost four hours a day!

But there is … surprising news - young people don't watch as much TV as adults.

For … , middle-aged adults (aged forty-five to sixty-five) watch about five hours a day.

But young people aged twelve to seventeen only watch about two and a half hours a day. And a … pensioner watches about six hours a day.

Studies in countries such as the USA and Australia … the same: kids today spend less time in front of their TV sets than young people in the 1980s.

Teenagers today don't often sit with their families on the living-room … .

So where are they? Do they perhaps spend all their … time in the fresh air, away from the TV?

The … answer is no, they don't.

The favourite free time activity of British teenagers is now … the internet - typically about thirty-one hours a week!

The couch potato is … and well - he's just back in his bedroom.