Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given. Explain the words in bold.

Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given. How far do you agree or disagree with the statements?

Video games are the world’s fastest growing entertainment industry. They are at the cutting __________ of digital creativity. The worlds they create are becoming ever more complex and __________. Love them or hate them, video games are here to stay. Art has always _______________ in parallel with technology. New horizons were opened up by the invention of the printing press, the camera and the electric guitar. Video games are our newest cultural form and they are developing faster than anything before; a ____________ mirror for our ________________ 21^st century society.

2 Look through theNOTESand watch the Episode “Video Games”.(Мультимедийный каталог 1556→Unit 9)

The Stadium of Light is an all-seater football stadium in Sunderland, England. With space for 49,000 spectators, the Stadium of Light has the fifth-largest capacity of any English football stadium.

Karen Millen is a Icelandic owned women’s designer clothing brand, specialising in tailoring, coats and eveningwear.

Ted Baker is a British clothing retail company, known for applying twists to their products

Pro Evolution Soccer 3 is football video game series.

The Getaway is an action-adventure video game developed by Team SOHO, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation 2.

3 Write down Extract 1 starting “The making of the videogames has become……. (09:58) up to …… which stands is the very front gate” (11:03)

Write down Extract 2 starting “It’s long been hoped … (15:18) up to …… other conscious beings” (15:53)

4 Find English equivalents for the following word-combinations.

Complete the sentences with the correct words and phrases from Task 2.

1. “I think “The Simms” was one of the first games which did …….. a really kind of ………… to girls.
2. A beautifully designed video game ………….. just as the fine arts do.
3. His painting strikes with ………………. of detail.
4. Your offer is unacceptable. That's a pretty ………………….
5. They were ……………………… in their prediction.

6 Listen to the extract from the Episode (08:33)and fill in the gaps with the appropriate words.

“Echo” is set in a vast ____________ castle where _______ nodes dance in _________ towers and distant battlefields ___________ in an _____________ ________. The whole environment is a puzzle – ________________ spaces from Keith Robinson-esque ________________ combine beauty with intellectual _________________. “Viewtiful Joe” is a game of ____________ style inspired by Japanese __________________ and American ______________. ______________ of blossoming cherry trees, drawn in 19^th century Japanese style, seem to have been __________ and played back on a ___________ old projector.

7 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:

1. Videogames and cinema. Similarities and differences.

2. What makes videogames unique in comparison with other art forms.

3. Some reasons why videogames have a lot of appeal. Gaming audience.

4. Commercial success and public recognition of videogames.

5. How motion-capturing techniques works.

6. Artificial intelligence in the game “The Simms”.

7. Games as a tool to deal with moral issues.

Translate the following sentences either into English or into Russian.

1. His was not a mission at the cutting edge of British diplomatic activity.

2. Эти модели включают в себяновейшие достижения компьютерной технологии.

3. Demand may overtake the supply.

4. Нас опередили события.

5. It is dangerous to overtake another car on a bend.

6. Это будет нелегко сделать.

7. Промышленность всё ещё находилась в стадии становления.

8. What are the implications of the new law?

9. Such a clock is guaranteed to be accurate within one second in one million years.

10. В прошлом году эти люди заселили все острова.

Speaking points. Comment on the following quotations from the episode.

Strategy Points

ü Spend a minute thinking about the topic below and making brief notes.

ü During a minute decide how you will introduce and link your ideas, and then talk for a minute (!).

ü Remember to include some examples to support or illustrate what you say.

ü Use a variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures.

ü Make sure you keep to the topic.

ü Learn useful phrases and expressions. These give you time to think, and also act as signposts which help listeners follow your arguments.

Giving an example: for instance, if we take the example of X, X serves as a good example of this

Sequencing words: firstly, secondly, finally, lastly, last but not least

Introducing a new idea: the first thing (I'd like) to mention, to begin with, another point to consider is, which leads me on to another point, and, of course, we shouldn't forget

Bringing an idea to its conclusion: to sum up, in the final analysis, on balance, taking all the arguments into consideration, in conclusion

1. “One day, games might even start to play us…”
2. ” The minute you have a visually recognizable human being, you expect them to behave and speak in a recognizable way and it’s a very, very tall order.”
3. “I think, that’s a sort of natural process with a new technology, there is a great excitement of all that is possible and then you are thrown back on the realization that nothing in itself is that amazing, it is what you do with it.”
4. “We could enjoy new forms of social interaction and may be even build new alternative societies or… we could become willing slaves of the matrix and entertain ourselves to death.”

Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given. Explain the words in bold.

Among the great Dutch artists of the 17^th century, he is now second in __________ only to Rembrandt, but he made little mark during his lifetime and then long languished in ____________. Jan Vermeer excelled in _____________ comfortable interior scenes that are composed with mathematical clarity and ______________ with cool, silver light.

There is a hole at the centre of all biographies of Johannes Vermeer, where the man himself should be. Although his pictures continued to be greatly valued through the 18th and early 19th centuries, Vermeer was then almost lost as a _____________ personage, until his oeuvre was_______________ put back together in the 1860s by a French _____________, Theophile Thore. Even so, the painter's personality and life-story remained ___________, which may be why Thore christened him "the Sphinx of Delft".

2 Look through theNOTESand watch the Episode “The World of Vermeer, Part 1”.(Мультимедийный каталог 1556→Unit 9)

Delft, the city Vermeer lived in

Proust,the novelist

Reynier, Vermeer’s father

Delft Charity Chamber, the local social services

Neeltge Goris, Vermeer’s paternal grandmother

Balthasar, Vermeer’s maternal grandfather

Catherina Bolnes, his wife

Schipluyde,the little village outside Delft

Maria Tins, Vermeer’s mother-in-law

Van Der Dussen, the patrician

Ryenier Bolnes, a wealthy brick maker, Vermeer’s father-in-law

Tanneke Everpoel, the kitchen maid

Wilhelm, Maria Tins’s unruly son

Hermanus Taerling, manager in a private house of correction

3 Write down Extract 1 starting “Whatever the world ……. (09:52) up to …… falling

upon a young woman” (11:06)

Write down Extract 2 starting “It’s such a seemingly simple painting ……. (20:08) up to …… the world in that corner instead”

4 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the appropriate words and word combinations.

1) Was there a ____________ to his perfectionism, one that could explain his ____________ breakdown and _________? I was hoping to find some answers inside the __________, and in a ____________ attempt to ___________ with the locals I rented an ________________ orange bicycle.

2) For __________ evidence, I went to the Delft _________, where many of the pieces of the Vermeer puzzle are to be found. And although there are only isolated ______________________, from them I think we can start __________ a mental picture, both of the artist, and of the __________of his tragedy.

3) Among his earliest ____________ works is Diana and Her Companions, Vermeer’s only ______________ scene, but a very quiet, ___________ moment in a story that often ends in __________ against an ________ _________ presence. It has clear religious ____________: foot washing, the bowl, even the napkin, which suggests the shape of a dove, have strong catholic and _____________ _________ . It’s a picture by a man who loved women, who loved to look at women, loved to paint them. There’s a familiar Vermeer _________ here, the feel of a moment of _____________, which also has a certain ____________ of peace about to be _____________ .

5 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:

1. The reasons why the presenter goes to Vermeer’s native town.

1. The life of the 17^th century Holland and the town of Delft. The paradox of Vermeer’s art.

1. Vermeer’s childhood, his father Reynier, Vermeer’s appearance

1. The register of baptism in the New Church, The Best Outer Garment Tax

1. Grim moments in the family history. Vermeer’s dodgy grandmother Neeltge and grandfather.

1. The most important decision of Vermeer’s life.

1. The nature of Vermeer’s own household. Catherina’s childhood

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