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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/First of all mass media offer a huge variety of information, knowledge. The knowledge is given in an interesting, attractive way. It can be easily absorbed. Apart from listening and reading, we can watch moving pictures, experience sounds and colours (maybe smell in the future). While sitting at home, in a comfortable armchair, one can learn new things without going out. Nature, economy, different civilizations have not got any secrets for a listener or viewer who has undertaken these persistent attempts to find out something new. What is more, mass media help us to learn foreign languages (satellite television). Instead going to the cinema or to the theatre plays and films can be watched on television. As long as it is done professionally, we can use it to our heart's content. The problem is that by sitting in a room and in front of the glass monster we passively subject ourselves to the second-hand experience, we are actually off from real world. Mass media cannot replace our own experience. Of course, it does not mean that everybody must travel along the length and breadth of the whole world. Needless to say it is impossible and would be disastrous for our planet. But we have to follow all the information with criticism and with remembering that a camcorder does not show us everything.