Vocabulary

New vocabulary

1 Entertainment technology is creating a new use for old words. Match the words with their definitions.

1 burn a copying tracks to CDs from online

music sites

2 rip b recording your CDs and encoding

them into MP3 or other digital files

3 tag с broadcasting files, mainly audio, on

the Internet for others to download

4 podcast d adding extra information about

artists, albums, and songs to tracks on your MP3 collection

2 Do you know any other new vocabulary connected with entertainment technology? If so, work in pairs and explain the words to your partner.

Problem-solving

1 Study the pie chart showing the best-selling computer game genres in the USA, and answer the questions.

1. What genre of computer games sells most?

2. What genre sells least?

3. What do you think is a strategy game?

2 Work in pairs. Using the title, decide which genre each of the games belongs to. Explain the reason for your answers.

1. Jade Empire role-play

2. Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory

3 Grand Theft Auto:

San Andreas

4. The Sims

5. Stronghold

6. Doom 3

7. Pro Evolution Soccer

8. Legend of Zelda

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The US Society of Hand Therapists warn that excessive use of handheld electronic devices can lead to hand and wrist problems. Some of these have been called Texter's thumb, Blackberry cramp, and i Pod finger.

Customer care

Making suggestions

1 Sam has a problem downloading a music file, so she contacts Customer support. Read her email.

2 Read how Customer support replies to Sam.

3 Reply to the customer enquiry and make suggestions using the notes below.

All clips are in Windows Media format - customers

must have Windows Media Player installed.

If they have Windows Media Player installed,

they should:

check their system sound settings

check the sound settings on their media player

(The sound settings might need to be turned up.)

Useful language

Do...

You can do...

Try doing...

I suggest you do...

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Pairwork

Work in pairs, A and B. Each of you has details of a video game. Find out from each other information to complete the table.

Name of the game

Company/Development team

Type of gameConsole Good features

Student AGo to p.112. Student В

Gran Turismo 4

This is a driving simulator game. You can buy, modify, and race cars. It was developed by Polyphony Digital for Sony. This version is for the PlayStation 2 console. The best features are the graphics which are very realistic, and the driving is very accurate.

Checklist

Assess your progress in this unit.

Tick (\/) the statements which are true.

I know key terms in personal entertainment technology

I can give advice in a number of ways lean listen for opinions

My reading and listening are good enough to understand most of each text in this unit

Key words

Adjectives

online portable

Nouns

animator

broadband

clip

code

games console

hard disk

hardware

program

setting

simulation

track

trend

update

Note here anything about how English is used in technology that is new to you.

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