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    Culture teacher’s notes B1 Unit

    Gaming around the world


    LEARNING ■ I can learn about what video games are played around the world and by whom and use what I learn
    OUTCOMES to make connections with my own culture.
    ■ I can discuss worldwide gaming trends and understand my own cultural identity.
    ■ I can make comparisons between cultures and use my own beliefs and values to improve my cultural
    knowledge.

    2d Ask students to read through the sentences and decide


    A VOCABULARY FOCUS
    how best to complete them using no more than three
    addicted [adj]: enjoying a particular activity very words in each case. They can work in pairs. Elicit some
    much and spending as much time as you can doing it ideas from the class.
    moderation [n]: sensible behaviour; not doing too
    Suggested answers
    much of something
    motivated [adj]: enthusiastic and determined 1 make big money
    phenomenon [n]: a situation that can be seen to 2 plays in moderation/plays sensibly/does his
    happen or exist homework/does sport/sees his friends/does
    professional [n]: someone who plays a sport or does other things
    an activity as a job rather than for enjoyment 3 in class/with her students
    solitary [adj]: tending to spend a lot of time alone 4 active/connected to others/active and connected
    specific to [adj]: limited to one particular thing 5 of gamers/of players
    6 20 billion dollars
    WARMER
    Ask students about their favourite computer games.
    Gateway to culture
    Write some of these questions on the board: What
    are your favourite computer games? What types of 3a Put students into pairs to discuss the questions and
    games do you dislike? Do you prefer to play alone come up with suitable answers. Then elicit ideas from
    or with other people? What devices do you prefer to the class.
    use to play computer games? Are there any devices Answers
    you don’t like? Why? Have a class discussion to find
    Students’ own answers
    out students’ answers to the questions.

    1 Ask students to look at the statistics and discuss them PROJECT


    with their partner. Elicit thoughts from students, then 3b For Step 1 the class into five groups and give each
    ask them to answer the questions. Find out which is the group a world region to research – (1) North America,
    most popular digital device for students to play video (2) Latin America, (3) Europe, (4) Africa and the
    games on. Middle East, (5) Asia-Pacific. Explain to students that
    they are going to find out some information about
    2a Have students read the article about video games and
    gaming trends in their selected region. Students
    answer the question.
    will need Internet access to do their research. Allow
    Answers students time to find out the information they need
    Kim: action games and collate this information to report back to the
    Laila: adventure games class in the next stage.
    Max: social games In Step 2, students come up with questions as a whole
    class for their survey using the points they researched
    2b Ask students to read the article again quickly to pick
    in Step 1. In Step 3, they interview another pair on the
    out the key information to complete the activity. Have
    region they researched using the survey questions.
    students work with a partner to match the numbers with
    the correct information. 3c Once the class has gathered all the necessary
    Answers information, ask them to prepare a report with the
    findings from their survey to show the differences in
    1 f 2 e 3 d 4 c 5 b 6 a
    gaming trends around the world. This information
    2c Ask students to read the article again and decide if the can be presented in poster form or as a digital
    sentences are true or false. Have students work alone presentation.
    before checking their answers with a partner. Finally,
    check answers as a class.
    Answers
    1 T 2 F 3 F 4 T 5 T 6 T 7 F 8 F

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