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    The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom that has been broadcast over 500 times since 1989, making it the longest running sitcom in American television history. It focuses on the Simpson family and their lives in the fictional town of Springfield. The show has won many awards and its characters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It centers on themes within the family like Homer's job at the nuclear power plant and the parents trying to raise their children, though not always succeeding. The Simpsons has triggered a large merchandising industry and is watched by millions around the world in over a hundred countries.

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    The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom that has been broadcast over 500 times since 1989, making it the longest running sitcom in American television history. It focuses on the Simpson family and their lives in the fictional town of Springfield. The show has won many awards and its characters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It centers on themes within the family like Homer's job at the nuclear power plant and the parents trying to raise their children, though not always succeeding. The Simpsons has triggered a large merchandising industry and is watched by millions around the world in over a hundred countries.

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    The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom that has been broadcast over 500 times since 1989, making it the longest running sitcom in American television history. It focuses on the Simpson family and their lives in the fictional town of Springfield. The show has won many awards and its characters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It centers on themes within the family like Homer's job at the nuclear power plant and the parents trying to raise their children, though not always succeeding. The Simpsons has triggered a large merchandising industry and is watched by millions around the world in over a hundred countries.

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    The Simpsons Reading comprehension

    1) Before Reading, find the following words in the dictionary (English


    definition):
    a) Sitcom: A situation comedy.
    b) Broadcast: To send out a programme on television or radio.
    c) Clumsy: Awkward in movement or in handling things.
    d) Succeed: Achieve the desired aim or result.
    e) Environment: The circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is
    surrounded.
    f) Trigger: A small device that releases a spring or catch and so sets off a
    mechanism, especially in order to fire a gun.

    2. FCE Reading task

    Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the
    sentences A to G the one that fit each gap (1– 6).

    The Simpsons is an American sitcom that shows middle class lifestyle in


    cartoon form. The half-hour episodes take place in and around the fictional
    town of Springfield and make fun out of American culture and society.

    Since the show started in 1989 the Simpsons have been broadcast over 500
    times. 1_____E___. In 2007 a full-length movie, The Simpsons Movie, made
    over half a billion dollars.
    The Simpsons has won many prizes, concluding the Emmy Awards. In the year
    2000 Time magazine named it the best television series of the century and
    the cartoon characters of The Simpsons received their own star on
    Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

    The Simpson family consists of 5 main characters. Homer is the rather clumsy,
    beer-drinking father. He works at a nuclear power plant in Springfield and is
    married to Marge Simpson, a typical American middle class housewife.
    2____D____. Bart is a ten-year old who constantly gets into trouble. Lisa is a
    highly intelligent eight-year old who has become a vegetarian and a
    Buddhist. Maggie, the family’s baby, is often shown with a pacifier. The
    Simpsons have two pets, a dog named Santa’s Little Helper and Snowball, a
    cat.

    Even though the series focuses around animated characters, many human
    celebrities have starred on The Simpsons in the past. 3_____C___.

    The comedy centers on a few major themes within the family. Homer’s work
    in a nuclear power plant opens up the topic of our environment for
    discussion. 4_____B___. Homer and Marge try to raise their children as best
    as they can but, as in many typical families, do not always succeed.
    5______F__.

    The Simpsons have triggered a merchandising industry revolving around T-


    shirts, DVDs, video games, a theme park and books.

    The program has been very successful around the world. 6.______A__.
    A. It is watched by millions of people in over a hundred countries.

    B. The series also makes political comments and criticizes how


    the government and large corporations exploit the normal worker.

    C. For example, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Tom Jones or Mel Gibson.

    D. The couple has three children. Bart is a ten-year old


    who constantly gets into trouble.

    E. This makes it the longest running sitcom in American television history.

    F. Bart and Lisa are often shown in their school life where educational
    problems arise.

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