12 IW. Read the words and write them in the right columns.
political, special, silent, great, rich, lifetime, well-educated, hardworking,
interesting, entertaining, building, cartoon, happiness, talented, clever, ugly,
stupid, beautiful, interest, lovely, trip, emotional, well-known, hungry, wise,
well-maintained, life, intelligent, boring, poverty, kind
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6. Noun
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rich
emotional
well-educated
poverty.com
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It was really by chance that the soap opera appeared in Britain. The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) had no interest in producing this type of programme but during the Second World War it was thought that the Americans should be shown how well the British people were standing up to the war. For this reason, a soap opera was written for the North American service of the BBC; it was called Front Line Family and showed how a typical English family, the Robinsons, were living during the war. Some people in Britain managed to hear the programme and asked for it to be broadcast for the British audience. The BBC were unwilling to do this but finally agreed and broadcast the programnne in Britain, but changed the name lo The Robinsons. The programme ran for six years.
Other soaps were introduced later, one telling the life of a doctor's family and another, The Archers, about life in a country village. The original aim of The Archers was to inform farmers of new developments in agriculture. The serial began in 1951 and is still to be heard on five evenings every week.
Some attempts at soap opera began to appear on television in Britain in the mid-1950s but it was not until 1961 that the first real soap opera appeared. This was shown, not by the BBC, but by commercial television. The serial, called Coronation Street, was about the lives of people living in a working-class street near Manchester. Although the serial was planned to run for only thirteen weeks, it is still to be seen several nights every week and almost every week has more viewers than any other programme on British television.
The BBC never managed to produce a really successful soap opera until 1984, when it introduced Eastenders. This programme is about life in anarea of the east end of London. For a time it had more viewers lhan Coronation Street and still rivals it as the most popular programme on British television. There is a major difference between the two programmes in that Eastenders concentrates on often rather depressing realism whilst Coronation Street, although having serious storylines, always contains a strong element of comedy.