节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-10-10
难易度:High
关键字:expertise, stroke, zap, strike a balance, nanobot
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
Thanks for joining us today.
Over the years video games have developed something of a harmful reputation.
Studies found kids who spend too much time playing video games put themselves at
risk for developing muscle and joint pain,
eye problems and weight problems.
Well, this month's TECHNOLOGY feature turns the tables on this thinking by
showing us video games can be healthy.
In fact, right now certain medical professionals are using video games as a form
of treatment.
Let's learn more in today's lesson, Games for Health, on page 24.
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Games for Health.
These games add a dose of fun to medical treatment.
Video games already keep people entertained, but now they're developing a more
serious side: games for health.
Game designers and medical experts combine their expertise to produce games that
serve as treatment options for a host of conditions.
Games have been developed to help treat stroke patients, teens with depression
and people struggling to lose weight, just to name a few.
Some games for health include typical video-game action while others are more
like mini-courses.
But most involve the key elements of missions, rewards and social gaming.
Hello, friends.
Thank you so much for joining us here in the studio.
My name is Kaylah.
And my name is Ryan.
And I'm busy playing a video game.
Ryan, we're supposed to be teaching.
Why are you playing a video game?
Well, video games are a lot of fun, and they often add a dose of fun to your
life.
But maybe they can add fun to a lot more.
Isn't that right, Kaylah?
That's right.
I guess it makes sense to play a video game today because we're talking about
our TECHNOLOGY article talking about Games for Health.
Now these video games add a dose of fun to medical treatments.
OK. So now we're seeing that you can actually use video games not just for
entertainment but for medical treatment.
Something that is medical has to do with medicine and health.
That's right.
Now medical treatment is what they're doing to help you get better.
Now it's maybe the therapy or the medicines or the rest that they're having you
do.
Maybe your food... you are being treated.
Now our... our phrase here is a bit of a "play on words." We have that word
"dose" in there.
Now why is that a play on words today, Ryan?
Well, that's because the word "dose" means a small amount of something, usually
about medicine.
If you're taking a certain amount of medicine, you will take a dose of medicine.
That's right.
A dose is what is a preset amount of something.
So this preset amount of gaming might actually add fun to your medical
treatment.
Interesting.
Well, we do know that video games already keep people entertained, but now they
are developing a more serious side.
OK. So the games for health, this is the serious side of the new gaming idea.
Now I'm a little confused, Ryan.
How in the world is playing a video game going to help me get better?
Excellent question, Kaylah. We see here:
Game designers and medical experts combine their expertise to produce games that
serve as treatment options for a host of conditions.
I see. So two different kinds of people combine, or put together, their
expertise.
Now what does that mean?
OK. "Expertise" is your high level of knowledge or skill in something.
So your expertise, Ryan, would be teaching English.
Excellent. Yeah, teaching English.
I also involved in film-making and using computers.
These are all my areas of expertise.
OK. So it's what you're good at, it's what you have a lot of knowledge in.
So people from these areas of expertise work together to create a game that can
actually help a whole host of conditions.
OK. We're going to talk about this word "host" now with Grammar on the Go.
Hi there, friends.
Welcome to Grammar on the Go.
My name is Liz.
So what do you think about games that are part of medical treatments?
We read in today's article:
Game designers and medical experts combine their expertise to produce games that
serve as treatment options for a host of conditions.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Notice the word: host.
Normally we use the word "host" to talk about the person in charge of a ceremony
or a program,
or the person who is in charge of the home or place where guests are invited to.
But in today's sentence, "host" means a large variety.
So the writer is saying that game designers and medical experts are working
together to produce games that serve as treatment options for a wide variety of
conditions.
This use of "host" is often used in formal situations where you want to tell
people about how there is a large number of a certain kind of thing.
For example:
The scandalized company needs to choose the right spokesperson to handle the
host of questions from the media.
Or health experts have always advised that people should take fish oil because
fish oil can help the body in so many ways. So we can say:
Fish oil offers a host of health benefits.
If you'd like to see some more example sentences, then check out today's Grammar
Tip section in your Studio Classroom magazine.
That's it for today.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go signing off.
Bye-bye.
So games are being... developed to help with a host, a whole lot of bunch of
different kinds of conditions.
That's right.
These games are being developed to help, for example, treat stroke patients.
Now a "stroke" is a medical conditional that, friends, you do not want to
experience, but maybe you know someone who has experienced it.
It's when a... there's a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the
brain, and it can cause you to lose movement, or possibly lose the ability to
speak.
Now my grandfather had a stroke when I was just a child.
And he couldn't... had no control of the right side of his body.
He always was limping and dragging one side of his body.
So I have been around a stroke patient.
And friends, I hope that you don't have to be.
Yes. And Kaylah, strokes require what is called therapy.
That means you need a lot of help in order to treat the patient.
If you're treating someone, you're helping them get better.
And a patient is someone who is suffering from an illness or a disease and is
getting help.
OK. So a stroke patient, sometimes they can go through therapy, and these games
work for that.
Well, another group of people would be teens that struggle with depression or
people that are struggling to lose weight.
That's right.
This is just to name a few.
There are many more examples.
Some of these games for health include typical video-game action while others
are more like mini-courses.
OK. So what is the difference?
Well, typical video games, Kaylah, involve a lot of motion, a lot of action, a
lot of buttons.
But some are more like mini games.
Those are small games, or you call them "courses," kind of just like a short,
quick game.
So they're different, but most still involve the key elements of a mission,
rewards and social gaming.
A mission is a goal, something you are working towards.
And if you achieve that goal, then you might get rewards.
And they also involve social gaming so they can talk with each other.
OK. So these are just a few examples of how they're doing it.
We'll look at specifics after we watch this video.
Welcome to the lyme-fected system.
Your first assignment: John Davies.
He's got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
We're here to scout out this lymph node for any sign of lymphoma cells.
John has been treated before, but the lymphoma cells have a way of hiding in
coming back.
Right. So what do they look like?
Oh. To the untrained eye, they don't look much different from other cells.
But your combat programming will auto-target them.
Right.
And what do you call this small feathered animal that floats?
A duck. Why?
Because you'd better duck!
Go after it.
That's our quarry.
I'm on it!
Someone has to give that girl a flying lesson.
Lymphoma cells, already dividing!
You got your target.
Let's do this!
All right.
Now you're cooking.
Any more?
(Background Noise).
How many destroyed?
(Background Noise).
A few cells have broken off the clastic.
Get them before they regrow the colony!
That's better.
(Background Noise).
You got them.
On to the next clastic.
Next!
(Background Noise).
Chase those buggers down.
Oh! You've cleared this node.
(Background Noise).
Shot the lot of them!