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30 avr. 2018 · "He was watching TV when I called." A TV was ordered, and needs to be picked up at "K-Mart"; "You need to go to K-Mart and pick up the TV." Or "Could you go to K-Mart and pick up the TV for me?" If the television (brand/model) had not been picked-out yet, you would say, "a TV", instead of "the TV." "Hey kids! Stop jumping around near the TV ...
4 déc. 2010 · Generally, 'see' has the connotation of having gone to the movie theater and watched the movie there whereas 'watch' tends to mean to watch it in a home environment on DVD or TV. In the cases where 'watch' is used to mean doing so at a theater, it is often accompanied with a construction like "go and", e.g. "We're going to go and watch X."
23 nov. 2010 · The placement of often is not random — you can't just informally do it anywhere. An English speaker couldn't say, e.g., "they don't watch often TV". So people aren't just doing what they want, they are following grammatical rules that also allow "often" at the end of the sentence. – Kosmonaut.
30 juin 2009 · つまり，話者も聞き手も頭の中に全く同じTVがイメージされている事を意味します．. （ビックカメラのテレビコーナーで，46インチのソニー製のテレビを指差しながら「watch the TV」と言うならば，theをつけるのが正しいです）. ただ単に「テレビを見る」と ...
22 janv. 2021 · It was on July 15, 1976, we are told, that couch potato came into being, uttered by Tom Iacino of Pasadena, California, during a telephone conversation. He was a member of a Southern California group humorously opposing the fads of exercise and healthy diet in favor of vegetating before the TV and eating junk food (1973).
I don't know about US, but mostly in UK we go to the cinema to watch a film on the big screen. Sometimes you still hear pictures , or flicks , but they're getting a bit dated. I don't think many people would say they went to the theatre without adding something to indicate this was to see a film, since by default it would be assumed the entertainment was something with live performers on stage.
I watch TV series in English very frequently to practise my listening skills. The words I've heard in relation to children are: Sport; Champ; Kiddo; I wonder whether they are used in everyday speech or not. I looked up the meaning of sport in a dictionary and it says: (old-fashioned) used when speaking to a boy in a friendly way.
Extending on Pam's answer, Show is considered the lowest common hypernym for TV program and Movie. This can be backed up with reference to the WordNet lexical database. See several papers including: Miller, G. A. WordNet: a lexical database for English, Communications of the ACM, ACM, 1995, 38, 39-41
3 janv. 2016 · 2. With regard to the first scenario, when you say "see you there" when addressing an audience member at a concert, the usual implication is that you'll be coming along for the same event and joining him/her in the audience (in immediate or close proximity). If all you're doing is watching the event on TV, a better expression would be "Hope to ...
It's not an idiomatic expression, but its derived from an expression, "Couch Potato". A "couch potato" is a lazy person, who sits on the couch and watches tv, and presumeably eating, so the headlines "Six ways to get your kids off the couch, into a good job."
