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Is binge-watching a harmless or helpful activity?
Binge-watch meaning is to watch many or all episodes of a TV series in rapid succession, this phrase started to be used around 2013 and increased with the succeed of Nexflix.
I feel there are some factors that impulse to watch a TV series at once, the most recent one was the lockdown due to Covid-19 because ushered off people to be at home more than normal we used to be.
People started feeling a connection with characters and the way they solved different issues triggered a bond.
According to doctors binge-watching releases dopamine in our brain and we feel happy, we feel relief from stress, it a way of turn our brain down for some hours, but as well it can cause anxiety at the end of a show because we lose that feeling of happiness.
Once you get suck into a TV series, it is really difficult to stop watching it, every episode has an excited cliffhanger that catch you up and you want to continue watching, at some point you start lying to yourself: “one more episode and I will go to bed” but that it is not the true, you get roped into a TV series for hours.
In the other hand the next day people feel tired because they spend hours in front of the TV and the feeling of guiltiness starts.
Obviously to be sit during hours it is not healthy for our body, mainly if you eat a lot of snacks during those hours.
I feel it is good to have a balance in our lives, any extreme is not good, we need to take care of our body but as well we need to relax, so we need to educate our minds and try to do different activities during the day. Everybody deserves to enjoy, Don’t they?
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Thank you for handing in your first activation project @tatiana.aguilar – I can see you’ve put in a lot of work, nicely written! Well done 🙌
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▶️ Binge-watch meaning is to watch many or all episodes of a TV series in rapid succession, this phrase started to be used around 2013 and increased with the succeed of Nexflix.
1. Here you can either say: Binge-watchING meanS to … or … The meaning of binge-watch is to ….
2. suceed is a verb. The noun you need is: success
▶️. I feel there are some factors that impulse to watch a TV series at once, the most recent one was the lockdown due to Covid-19 because ushered off people to be at home more than normal we used to be.
1. replace impulse with push / drive / entice / urge (impulse is a noun only)
2. Either: more than normal OR more than we used to be (not together)
▶️ triggered a bond ✅. excellent!
▶️ every episode has an excited cliffhanger > every episode has an EXCITING cliffhanger
See this lesson: ING and ED adjectives
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/lower-intermediate/unit-6/session-1/activity-3
▶️ In the other hand > can you try and fix the preposition?
▶️ Obviously to be sit during hours > Obviously to be sitting for many hours
▶️ Everybody deserves to enjoy, Don’t they? > Everybody deserves some enjoyment, don’t they?
Ask me if you have any questions or need anything clarified. Well done Tatiana! 👍
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