Q2e Listening & Speaking 2: Audio Script

UNIT 4
Unit 4, Game Studies, The Q Classroom
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Teacher: Today we’ll discuss the Unit 4 question, “How can games compare to real life?”
Marcus, you like soccer. How does soccer compare to real life?
Marcus: Well, it’s hard. You have to try hard to be successful. I think that’s like real life.
Teacher: Good point. What else, Felix? How can games compare to real life?
Felix: Sports like soccer are similar to real life because you have to work with a team.
You need to share responsibility and work together to win. We need to do that
in real life, too.
Teacher: Games usually have a winner and loser. Do you think that’s like real life? Yuna?
Yuna: Yes. But you don’t win every game.
Teacher: That’s true. No one wins all of the time. So, you have to try hard, you have to
work with others, you can’t win all of the time—any other ways that games
are like real life? Sophy?
Sophy: Yes. In games you have to follow the rules. That’s true in life, too. There are
always rules you need to learn and follow to be successful.

Unit 4, Note-taking Skill, Activity A

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Professor: The board game Monopoly is the third most popular game in the world. It’s a
game about buying and selling property. As a player, you move around the board and
buy pieces of land. Then you build houses and hotels. Every time another player lands
on your property, they have to pay you "rent." And, of course, when you land on
someone else's property, you have to pay them. The goal of the game is to win the
most money. When players lose all their money, they are bankrupt and have to leave
the game. The last player in the game is the winner.

The game of Monopoly that we know today was created by a man named Charles
Darrow. In 1933, Darrow made 5,000 copies of his game and sold them in a store in
Philadelphia. However, the original idea for Monopoly came from an earlier game
called Landlord. Landlord was invented in 1903 by an actress named Lizzie Magie.
Landlord is very similar to Monopoly. The Landlord board looks like a Monopoly
board, and players also buy and sell property. But there are some interesting
differences in the rules. In Landlord, players can choose to pay part of the rent into a
"Public Treasury." When there is enough money in the Public Treasury, all of the
players in the game get a share of the money. Lizzie Magie thought that a society
where a few people are very rich and many others are very poor was not fair. She
wanted the game to show how that happens and how to fix it.

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Monopoly and Landlord are just games, but in some ways they tell us things about our
societies and real life. Today Monopoly is played in 111 different countries by people
speaking 43 different languages.

Unit 4, Listening 1, Activity A, B, D

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Alex: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for inviting me to this meeting of the
game club tonight. My name is Alex Vargas, and I'm a game developer. I write word
games and other kinds of puzzles for newspapers. And, yes, I do have a fun job! I’m
going to introduce you to a new kind of word game that I’m working on. But first, we’re
going to talk about the history of a classic word game, the crossword puzzle. You know,
it's that grid with little black and white squares and a list of clues. The object is to solve
the puzzle by finding the answers to the clues and writing them in the blank white
squares.

The modern crossword puzzle was probably based on an ancient Roman game of word
squares. These were squares with words reading down and across. In 1890, an Italian
named Giuseppe Airoldi published a small crossword puzzle. It was a word square with
just eight words—four across and four down—and clues to help the solver.

However, the crossword, as we know it today, was invented by a New York journalist
named Arthur Wynne. Wynne was from England but lived in the United States from the
age of 19. In 1913, he published a puzzle that he called a "word-cross" in the newspaper
New York World. This original crossword was in the shape of a diamond with no black
squares. Wynne later created a version with black squares and changed the shape to a
square.

Wynne's crossword was an instant success. In fact, crossword puzzles became so

popular that the New York Public Library got worried. More people were using the
library’s dictionaries and encyclopedias for crossword puzzles than for research! The
crossword puzzle is probably still the most popular word game in the world. There are
even crossword puzzles in Chinese.

In recent years, people are beginning to realize that crossword puzzles are more than
just fun and games. There are many benefits to doing crosswords. Some medical experts
believe that doing crosswords helps keep our brains more active and therefore
healthier. Doing a crossword forces you to use your brain to remember facts about
people and events. You often "remember" things you didn't know you knew! You also
learn a lot of new things as you do research to find the answers to puzzle clues.

Now, about my game . . . I’m developing a new word game. To be honest, I think
crosswords are a little old-fashioned. I wanted to update the crossword puzzle and
make it more social. You can play this game with a group or even play it online. Its name

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is Cross Purposes. I have some sample copies with me tonight. Now the rules for the
game are . . .

Unit 4, Listening Skill, Activity A

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Speaker: Games also help us learn real life skills. The game SCRABBLE™ is great for
learning new words. The game has an interesting history. Alfred Mosher Butts first
developed the game in 1938. He called it “Criss-Crosswords.” However, Butts’s
original game was not popular. Then, in 1948, Butts and a partner, James Brunot,
improved the game and started a SCRABBLE™ factory. In the 1950s, the president of
Macy’s, the famous New York department store, discovered the game, and it became
very popular. Between 1952 and 2000, world sales of SCRABBLE™ games reached
more than 100 million games. In the U.S. today, one out of every four families has a
SCRABBLE™ game in their house.

The first World SCRABBLE™ Championship was in 1991. Every two years, there is
another competition. It takes place in different cities around the world, from
Washington, D.C. to London to Mumbai, India, and others. A player named Michael
Cresta has the record for the highest number of points for a single player in one
game. He scored 830 points in one game in 2006.

Unit 4, Listening 2, Activity A, B,

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Faisal: Hi, Waleed, what are you doing?

Waleed: I’m doing my assignment for my Business 103 class.
Faisal: You are not! You’re playing a computer game.
Waleed: No, really, this is my assignment. It’s called the Lemonade Game.
Faisal: You’re kidding. What a silly idea!
Waleed: It’s not a silly idea at all! Look. Here’s how it works. As a player, you imagine that
you are going to start a lemonade stand to make some money. You have $20 to
start your business. This first screen gives you a list of the supplies you need to
buy: paper cups, lemons, sugar, and ice. At the bottom of the screen, it tells you
what the weather’s like for the day. That helps you estimate how much you
should buy. This is especially important for the ice and lemons. Any ice you don’t
use in one day will melt. If you buy too many lemons on a hot day, they can go
bad.
Faisal: Right. I suppose there will be more demand for lemonade on a hot, sunny day
and less demand on a cool, cloudy day. Can I try it?
Waleed: Sure, go ahead. Here’s the screen for supplies. Just click how much you want of
each thing.
Faisal: OK, I ordered my supplies. What’s next?

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Waleed: Next, you click OK and go to the next screen. Decide on the price for each cup of
lemonade. After that, you need to figure out how many lemons and how much
sugar to use in each pitcher of lemonade. People prefer lemonade with more
lemons and sugar. But, that also makes it more expensive. Try using five lemons
and four cups of sugar in each pitcher.
Faisal: OK. And I think 25 cents for each cup is a good price.
Waleed: No, don’t charge 25 cents. I think that’s too expensive. Try charging 20 cents.
Faisal: Well, if you say so. Oh, look, people are buying the lemonade. They’re saying,
“Mmmm.” I guess they like it. Uh oh, now the sign says, “Sold out.” Looks like I
didn’t make enough.
Waleed: Yeah, too bad. Now watch the screen. The program calculates how much you
sold and your profit or loss for the day. Oh, no! You started with $20, but now
you only have $18.46. You lost $1.54. Sorry! Maybe 25 cents was a better price!
Faisal: Yeah, I told you so! But anyway, this is just a simple game. How can you learn
about business from this? A real business is much more difficult.
Waleed: Well, the game is simple, but the decisions are the same as the ones you make in
a real business. How much will it cost to make a product? How much should you
sell it for? What do people want in the product—and so on.
Faisal: True, but I still think a game is way too much fun for a homework assignment.
After all, this is a university business class, not kindergarten!
Waleed: But business is fun! Besides, it’s better to practice with a computer lemonade
stand than to lose real money on a real business!

Unit 4, Pronunciation, Examples

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lemonade
remember
imagination
activity
simplicity
difficulty
honesty

Unit 4, Pronunciation, Activity A

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3-syllable words:
introduce
expensive
estimate

4-syllable words:
original
competition
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kindergarten

5- and 6-syllable words:

university
originality
creativity

Unit 4, Pronunciation, Activity B

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1. honesty
2. popularity
3. creativity
4. environment
5. reality
6. developer
7. calculate
8. history

Unit 4, Speaking Skill, Activity A

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Mi-rae: Is this your first time bowling? Don’t worry. I can tell you how the game
works.
Liana: OK. What do we do?
Mi-rae: Do you see those white things? They're called pins. The object of the game is
to knock them down with a ball. You roll the ball down the lane to hit them.
Liana: That sounds easy. What do I do first?
Mi-rae: First, choose a ball. Pick one that isn’t too heavy for you.
Liana: OK. I think I’m going to use this ball. I really like the color. What do I do next?
Mi-rae: Next, you hold the ball with your fingers in the holes. After that, you stand in
front of the lane. Do you understand so far?
Liana: Yes. I get it so far. Then what do I do? Do I roll it with both hands?
Mi-rae: No, the idea is to roll it with one hand. Finally, try to roll it down the middle
of the lane.
Liana: OK . . . Wow! I knocked down all the pins!
Mi-rae: Great! That’s called a strike. You’re going to be good at bowling!

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