Week 19: Listening / Unit 10

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4

H4/V4 - Listening practice: Game Boy

Who knows what this is!

Retro Tech: Game Boy

You are going to watch a video documentary made by Marques Brownlee. He makes videos about ‘old’ technology and posts them on Youtube to great success. 

Today, he is going to show you more about the Nintendo Gameboy and how it has influenced our modern technology and games.

Retro Tech: Game Boy

Watch the introduction up until 7:16. Take notes as you watch. Then, answer the following questions.

PRE-LISTENING: 

What is the listening goal? 

DURING LISTENING:

What do you need (to do) to achieve this goal?

Why is Marques making a video about the game boy?

What do the interviewees tell you about gaming in the 1980s?

What made Nintendo 'the king of the video games'?

Why was the game boy so poular?

Retro Tech: Game Boy

Post-listening:

In what way did establishing the listening goal beforehand help you? 

What information did you miss? /  What could have helped you gain even better results? 

Watch the rest individually.

Continue watching the video. It will pause at certain moments and give you a question to answer. Make sure you type in your answer before continuing to watch. 

The answers will be available for you to check  before moving on. 

08:21

What does Marques want to find out here?

10:59

How did they test the durability of the Game Boy? What was the result?

12:11

What is the story of the game Tetris here?

13:16

What is Marques going to test in the Dope or Nope segment?

14:10

What does this accessory do?

15:23

What does this accessory do?

16:39

What does Marques think of the printer?

18:04

What made the Game Boy's design so good?

21:06

What is Marques's conclusion after learning to make music with Game Boys?

23:16

Which two things do they say the Game Boy led to?

Unit 10 You live and learn

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Cooperative reading!

1. Get into groups of 4 and decide who reads A, who B, who C, and who D. 
2. Read the text for yourself and summarise it's most important points. 
3. Share and compare what your text is about and answer the questions in exercse 2 and 3. 

Cooperative reading!

Step 2: Read the text for yourself

• Write down the translation of the underlined words and any    other words you don't know
• What was the study about?
• How was the study done? 
• What were the results?

Cooperative Reading!

Step 3: Share and compare!

• Take turns to briefly tell each other what your text is about. Share the answers you gave to the questions on the previous slide. 
• Do exercise 2 and 3 together

Finished? Work on weektaak

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