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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Phrases: Television

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

  1. I love TV. I can watch it all day sometimes. If I get bored watching something on one channel, I just   over to another channel.
  2. My friend is a real TV addict. You can't talk to her sometimes because she's just   to the box.
  3. In the UK, what we can watch on TV is much more liberal than in the past, but even now some things are still   .
  4. I hate being in a room with somebody who is channel   . I just want to watch one programme from beginning to end.
  5. Last night, I watched a fascinating fly-on-the-wall   about people coping with disability.
  6. Tonight's concert of Mozart and Handel is being broadcast   from the Royal Albert Hall.
  7. The picture on the TV is awfully dark. Would anybody mind if I turned up the   ?
  8. People are always writing letters of complaint about the number of   on TV but I miss so many programmes that I like it when they show things again.
  9. I've decided to get a satellite dish because some of the satellite channels offer exclusive   of important sporting events like boxing and European football matches.
  10. Nowadays, many people complain about the   of television but I think modern programmes are just as intelligent as programmes twenty years ago.
  11. My cousin is a real   potato. The only exercise he ever gets is picking up the remote control to change channels.
  12. People get annoyed with me for always changing the channel, but whatever I'm watching, I'm always worried that I'm missing something better on the other   .

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