Read and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F).
Using various kinds of Media in the classroom has always been a challenge, and how to bring these Media in the classroom is more than a challenge. Students and teachers should be able to use in their classrooms different media through different technologies. Media provide teachers and students with creative and practical ideas. They enable teachers to meet various needs and interests of their students. They also provide students with a lot of language practice through activities using newspaper, magazines, radio, TV, movies, books, Interest, etc, and tasks which develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. They entertain students and encourage reading English by giving the students the confidence, the motivation and the ability to continue their reading outside the classroom. Media "inform, amuse, startle, anger, entertain, thrill, but very seldom leave anyone untouched" (Shirley Biagy, 1996)
1. Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, Facebook or Twitter, blogs, etc. are forms of mass media.
2. Implementing mass media in the classroom is much easier than using them.
3. Media can support teachers with their instructional objectives.
4. Watching TV can help students develop language skills.
5. Students have hardly been affected by mass media.
