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Warming Up 合 Couch Potato: 月 Life as a Full-time Television Watcher Listen to the audio clip and give explanations to the following terms. 1 couch potato 4 nesting/cocooning 2 mouse potato 5 leave the nest 3 cabin fever 6 empty nest/empty nester Scripts

Couch Potato: Life as a Full-time Television Watcher Listen to the audio clip and give explanations to the following terms. Warming Up 1 couch potato 2 mouse potato 3 cabin fever 4 nesting/cocooning 5 leave the nest 6 empty nest/empty nester Scripts

Warming Up Check your answers. 1 couch potato someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television 2 mouse potato someone who enjoys working on a computer as much as a couch potato enjoys watching television 3 cabin fever boredom and restlessness people experience if they spend too much time inside their homes more

Check your answers. Warming Up 1 couch potato 2 mouse potato 3 cabin fever someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television someone who enjoys working on a computer as much as a couch potato enjoys watching television boredom and restlessness people experience if they spend too much time inside their homes

Warming Up 合 the way that some e people enjoy 4 nesting /cocooning spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live When children are grown,they are in 5 leave the nest college,or they are married and starting families of their own far away from their parents'houses. When children leave the nest,their 6 empty nest empty nester parents are living alone without children in their empty houses. end

Warming Up 4 nesting / cocooning 5 leave the nest 6 empty nest / empty nester the way that some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live When children are grown, they are in college, or they are married and starting families of their own far away from their parents’ houses. When children leave the nest, their parents are living alone without children in their empty houses

Warming Up Scripts Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time.For example,someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a "couch potato".A couch is a piece of furniture that people sit on while watching television. Robert Armstrong,an artist from California,developed the term couch potato in 1976.Several years later,he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government. Mister Armstrong also helped write a funny book about life as a full-time television watcher.It is called the Official Couch Potato Handbook. more

Scripts Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time. For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a “couch potato”. A couch is a piece of furniture that people sit on while watching television. Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in 1976. Several years later, he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government. Mister Armstrong also helped write a funny book about life as a full-time television watcher. It is called the Official Couch Potato Handbook. Warming Up

Warming Up Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as "mouse potatoes"enjoy working on computers.A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer,or cursor,on a computer screen.The description of mouse potato became popular in 1993.American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers. Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get "cabin fever".A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city.People go to a cabin to relax and enjoy quiet time. more

Warming Up Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as “mouse potatoes” enjoy working on computers. A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer, or cursor, on a computer screen. The description of mouse potato became popular in 1993. American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers. Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get “cabin fever”. A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city. People go to a cabin to relax and enjoy quiet time

Warming Up Cabin fever is not really a disease.However,people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes.This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside.Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go outside to play.So do their parents.This happens when there is so much snow that schools and even offices and stores are closed. Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live.This is called "nesting"or "cocooning".Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. more

Cabin fever is not really a disease. However, people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes. This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside. Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go outside to play. So do their parents. This happens when there is so much snow that schools and even offices and stores are closed. Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live. This is called “nesting” or “cocooning”. Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. Warming Up

Warming Up Some insects build cocoons around themselves 1 for protection while they grow and change.Nests and cocoons provide security for wildlife.So people like the idea of nests and cocoons,too. The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than 20 years ago.They describe people buying their first homes and filling them with many things.These people then had children. Now these children are grown and have "left the nest". They are in college.Or they are married and starting families of their own far away.Now these parents are living alone without children in their "empty nest".They have become "empty nesters". END

Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change. Nests and cocoons provide security for wildlife. So people like the idea of nests and cocoons, too. The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than 20 years ago. They describe people buying their first homes and filling them with many things. These people then had children. Now these children are grown and have “left the nest”. They are in college. Or they are married and starting families of their own far away. Now these parents are living alone without children in their “empty nest”. They have become “empty nesters”. Warming Up

Text Leisure inactivities-or how to relax and do nothing About the text Go to the text

Text Leisure inactivities – or how to relax and do nothing About the text Go to the text

Text 分 About the text the evolution of leisure activities when people had no no leisure activities much free time in the Victorian time football,rugby,cricket, bird-watching . ↓ in the 1990s being a couch potato in the 21st century being a mouse potato More

Text the evolution of leisure activities when people had no much free time in the Victorian time no leisure activities football, rugby, cricket, bird-watching . in the 1990s in the 21st century being a couch potato being a mouse potato About the text