四川省平昌中学指导教师：吴昌荣The Benefits of Watching American TV DramasZhao JunzhouNowadays, with more and more accesses to America, watching American TV dramas has gradually become a prevailing trend among the youths, who are high on them. However, various people hold distinctive views on it. Some people believe that watching American TV dramas can foster their sense of language, while others maintain that the American TV dramas may play a negative role in young people's lives and study on account of different cultural backgrounds. To be frank, I sustain that watching American TV dramas can bring a variety of advantages to us. There are some justifications listed to support my argument.To begin with, it is indisputable that watching American TV dramas can enhance the youths’ sense of language. For one thing, it can help them to practice oral English and listening competence as well as learn some idioms. The reason is that it is widely considered to be one of the most effective approaches to make the youths be exposed to authentic commutative context. For another, watching American TV dramas is conducive to them to consolidate what they have acquired in classroom. In addition, American TV dramas can broaden the youths’horizon. They can avail themselves of this opportunity to have a good command of American culture, customs, lifestyles, science and so on. Furthermore, watching American TV dramas can cultivate the youths’interest in English. Appreciating the fantastic and interesting stories, they can acquire some fixed expressions, obtain pleasure and experience exotic taste. Therefore, many English teachers adopt American TV dramas to trigger students’study motivation. Last but not least, they can attain American self-made spirit. The youths can learn how to strive to pursue and achieve their dream. To some extent, it can develop their independent personality and persistent and creative spirit.In a nutshell, we can naturally draw a reasonable and solid conclusion that watching American TV dramas not only can promote the youth’s English proficiency and broaden their horizon, but also it fosters their study interest and self-made spirit. Therefore, I strongly and firmly uphold the youth to watch American TV dramas on account their numerous benefits.The Benefits of Watching American TV DramasZhou JingNowadays, the original American TV dramas are so prevailing among the youths in China with the growth of internet TV. Considering that they bring a variety of benefits to the youths, they are extremely high on American TV dramas. However, people’s views on them vary from person to person, which causes heated debate on it. Some people believe that watching American TV dramas can foster their language sense while other people maintain the American TV dramas may play a negative role in young people's lives and study on account of different cultural background and social system. As for me, I prefer the former view rather than the latter. There are some justifications listed to support my argument.To begin with, it is generally accepted that watching American TV dramas can promote the youth s’English proficiency. Firstly, appreciating the fantastic and amusing stories, they can enhance their listening competence and oral English by means of imitating the native speakers’ pronunciation and intonation. Secondly, they can improve their overall range of vocabulary and help them with their sentence structures, and ultimately, they have to make the English their own. In addition, definitely, it can foster the youths’pragmatic ability. In terms of Chinese English learners, they don’t know to appropriately use English in special context. The learner will have to get some genuine interaction going in order to use the language he has learnt. The youths can be exposed to genuine context so that they enhance their commutative ability via watching American TV dramas. Eventually, watching American TV dramas are generally considered to be one effective means to broaden the youths’ horizon. On the one hand, watching American TV dramas can make the youths have acquaintance with American culture, including lifestyles, customs, economy and science and technology and so on. On the other hand, it can help them have access to American spirit, covering self-made spirit, adventurous spirit and innovative spirit.In short, we can naturally draw a reasonable and solid conclusion that watching American TV dramas can promote the youth s’ English proficiency; meanwhile it can foster the youths’communicative competency and broaden their horizon. By all means, I uphold the youths to be exposed to American TV dramas.The Benefits of Watching American TV DramasYang XingWith the development Chinese and western cultural communication and confluence, more and more American films and TV dramas swarm into Chinese film and TV market. Nowadays, there is a hot trend for the youths to watch American TV dramas, which causes an heated debate whether watching American TV dramas can bring benefits to the youths or not. However, people’s views on them vary from person to person. Some people hold that watching American TV dramas can enhance the youths’ language sense while others hold the opposite views. As for me, I maintain that watching American TV dramas can promote the youths’ language sense. In the following part, I will list some solid evidences to specify my argument.To begin with, watching American TV dramas plays an irreplaceable role in enhancing the youths’ language sense. Enjoying American TV dramas, they can listen to the dialogues with double subtitles made by actors, which can practice their oral English and listening. At the same time, they can acquire some authentic expressions and improve their overall a range of vocabulary and help you master sentence structures. What’s more, there is on denying that the youths can have acquaintance with western culture by means of watching American TV dramas. The reason is that American TV dramas reflect and embody western history, numerous etiquettes, and fashion and so on. Therefore, watching American TV dramas enriches their cultural knowledge. It is a fact that learning related culture knowledge can promote language acquisition. Ultimately, American TV dramas demonstrate some American brilliant spirit. The youths can have a good knowledge of American spirit to explore, self-made spirit, perseverance spirit and so on via appreciating American TV dramas, which are conducive to the youths’ growth.Taking all these factors into consideration, we can naturally draw a reasonable conclusion that watching American TV dramas can enhance the youths’ language and enrich their cultural knowledge; meanwhile, it can foster their some marvelous qualities. Thus, anyhow, I uphold the youth to watch American TV dramas.American TV Dramas Follow the Trend of the TimesHe QilangIn recent years, with the growth of internet, the original American TV dramas are so prevalent in China. More and more the youths would rather stay at home to watching TV rather that hangs out with their friends. Chinese English learners benefit a lot from watching and enjoying those TV dramas. Respecting the phenomenon, people’s views on them vary from person to person. The youths believe that watching American TV dramas propels them English study while their parents holds it will consume their much time. Personally, I maintain that watching American TV dramas can enhance the youths’ language sense. My argument generally stems from several aspects.To begin with, exposure to American TV dramas can be conducive to study English. For one thing, watching American TV dramas can enhance the youths’listening competence and oral English. For another, it can trigger their interest in English in that interest is the best teacher. Therefore, watching American TV dramas and improving English proficiency is complementary instead of contradictory relationship. Besides, there is on denying that watching American TV dramas bring them pleasure. When the youths fulfill their study and feel exhausted, they turn on TV and watch amusing American TV dramas, which help them to relax and release stress. Ultimately, it is extremely definite that watching American TV dramas can foster the youths’ cross-cultural communicative capability. For example, when the youths, along with their parents go aboard and encounter the native speakers, supposing that they can communicate with them with fluent and authentic English, their parents fell astonished. At this moment, they can proudly tell them they acquire these expressions by means of watching American TV dramas, and their parents will take pride in their ability.In a nutshell, taking all these factors into consideration, we can naturally arrive at a reasonable conclusion that American TV dramas are products which follow the trend of the times, and they enhance the youths’English proficiency and cross-cultural communicative capability, and bring pleasure to their mind and body. Thus, I advocate the youths to appropriately watch American TV dramas.American TV Dramas Follow the Trend of the TimesGou GuimingIn recent years, technology and science change rapidly and continuously, more and more American TV dramas swarm into Chinese film and TV market and the youths are extremely wild on American TV dramas. Regarding this phenomenon, various people hold distinctive standpoints. Some people suppose they can bring a variety of benefits to the youths while others hold the opposite view. Personally, I would rather espouse the former view rather the latter. I will list some rational evidences to sustain my argument.First of all, I will highlight watching American TV dramas can enhance the youths’ English proficiency. On the one hand, they can provide a good chance to the youths to practice their oral English and listening ability by means of imitating the actors’conversations. On the other, they can make the spectators integrate into genuine commutative context to improve their communicative ability. Moreover, it is obvious that watching American TV dramas offers the youths to have access to western culture. Actually, provided that the youths desire to have a good command of English, they should be familiar with American culture, which covers social system, lifestyle, customs, economy and science and so on. Eventually, admittedly, watching American TV dramas can broaden the youths’ horizon and enrich their knowledge. As we all know, American TV dramas and films are made by high-technology. Enjoying American TV dramas, the youths can attain visual pleasure and shock. In a sense, they will encourage the youths to pursue their dream to be fond of science. When they grow up, they will be determined to make contribution to our technological advancement.To sum up, we can come to a reasonable conclusion that watching American TV dramas not only provides a brilliant chance for the youths to enhance their English proficiency and know western culture, but also they can stimulate them to be fond of science. Therefore, we should advocate the youths to be exposed to American TV dramas owing to their benefits.。