Here are some of the Twitter answers from the other day – if you want to keep up to date with little tips and tricks follow me on Twitter – Languagelab.

Answers to the Twitter questions about the video:

1) What does to poke and prod mean? Poking is an action of tapping and/or softly jabbing another person with the tip of one’s finger or a sharp object. This is usually done to gain the other’s attention and to prod is like to nudge or to push against gently.

2)What are gadgets? A gadget is a small technological object (such as a device or an appliance) that has a particular function.

3)How many square feet is the exhibition? 1.7 million

4) How many football pitches is it ? 38

5) What is the little teddy bear called? Tune Animal

6)How many surfers walked past? 4

7)What is the tradition at CES? To have the biggest TV

8) How many people are there? 100,000

10)What does the verb ‘traipse’ mean ? To walk or tramp about usually without much purpose.

And the other videos answers are:

Questions are:
1)How do you move the ball? With your thetawave output – in other words your mind.

2)What is the game called? Mindflex

3) What is a zen master? Is someone who teaches Zen Buddhism to others

4) Which company realeased the game? Mattel

Chris Teacher

This week in languagelab we’ve been talking about games in our English lessons and in particular, the new World of Warcraft game, Wrath of the Lich King.

Wrath of the Lich King has just been launched by Blizzard and is an expansion pack for the largest online MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) in the world. In London there were queues of more than 2000 people as fans waited to be the first to get their hands on the game.

There are more than 11 million people involved in the fantasy game making it one of the biggest meeting places on earth. They spend time fighting monsters or each other, or both. Click here to watch the trailer.

Wrath of The Lich King

We talked about whether video games and online worlds were a bad thing and if they had too much influence on people. It’s a tough question, especially when the virtual world can be so exciting with so many things to do. Certainly some people get addicted to games like World of Warcraft and spend a lot of their time playing, but people spend a lot of time watching football too! We decided that the point about virtual worlds was their ability to engage people and make them interested. This has huge implications not only for entertainment, but for education as well.

Computers and virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft play more of a role in out lives than ever before so they are bound to attract attention.

Check out these gaming idioms and match them to the right answers

Answers

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