You should say:
- what science topic this TV programme was about
- when you saw this TV programme
- what you learnt from this TV programme about a science topic
and explain why you found this TV programme interesting.
[Instruction: You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.]
Model Answer:
There is nothing better than watching a good TV show on science when you are in a mood to stimulate your brain and learn something new about our world. Today, I would like to talk about one such science programme which aroused my thoughts rather intensely.
The science TV show, I am talking about, is called “Life After People”. Anyway, I had watched several other "science shows" prior to watching this particular one about a year ago, but this one was a bit different from other programmes in the sense that it was a bit scary. Yes, the name of this show is very much self-explanatory, and it was trying to highlight or explain a very radical situation of our world – a world that didn’t have any human life whatsoever. Sounds a bit scary, doesn’t it? Well, it should because getting to see things like burning skyscrapers, the disappearance of the cities instantly, and corroding landmark bridges is not certainly something very pleasant to watch.
But, that’s exactly what this science show, a disaster documentary rather, in my humble opinion, while predicting the disintegration of the world’s infrastructure along a timeline that stretches from day one to 10,000 years after our complete disappearance.
Now, as I kept watching this show, many types of unpleasant and dreaded situations had been crossing my mind that I didn’t like at all. But, whether I liked it or not, it taught me at least two lessons: the first lesson was that our planet doesn’t really need us humans to exist. The second lesson, of course, is that we, the humans are probably the most vulnerable species of all the life forms that exist on our planet.
Well, this science programme was really interesting to me, mainly because it was explaining a possible scenario, albeit a very frightening one, with some interesting scientific pieces of evidence, which we will not live to see! It was interesting also because it taught us that we, the humans, are nothing compared to this ever-expanding universe in the greater scheme of things.