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Today we are going to talk about one of my passions.
Video games and gaming.
You are going to:
Learn a little bit about the history of video games.
Learn vocabulary to help you talk about video games.
Talk about video games in a different way to how you
normally talk about them in class.
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have been too difficult.
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His hair is green too because
Mario’s image or ‘sprite’ was
limited to three colours. His
eyes are green too.
Mario has a moustache
because a mouth would need
to be black and they could
only use three colours.
Mario got his name from the
owner of Miyamoto’s
favourite pizza restaurant.
‘Mario’s Pizza’ in New York.
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Today we are going to talk about one of my passions.
Video games and gaming.
You are going to:
Learn a little bit about the history of video games.
Learn vocabulary to help you talk about video games.
Talk about video games in a different way to how you
normally talk about them in class.