节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-10-11
难易度:High
关键字:obesity, platform, diabetic, lifestyle, USB port
I hope all of you had a great break.
Welcome back, everyone.
The Zamzee technology is designed to get kids moving, and it really works.
One study shows that teens who wear a Zamzee meter are 30 percent more active.
The basic Zamzee meter costs about $20.
But unfortunately, it's not available outside the U.S., not yet.
OK. Let's wrap up this lesson with our final reading under the heading
Encouraging Healthy Habits.
(Music).
Gaming for Health.
Encouraging Healthy Habits.
Originally intended to help diabetic patients live healthier lives, HealthSeeker
is a social game on Facebook that anyone can play.
The game features level-based missions designed to encourage healthy diet and
lifestyle choices.
To accept a certain mission, players must first select three health-related
activities to carry out.
If they finish all three activities within a week, they complete the mission and
earn experience points.
Afterward, they can share the accomplishment with friends and cheer on other
players.
Games for health can't replace a doctor's advice, but they can be an important
part of an overall treatment plan.
The games being developed today will help treat new patients tomorrow.
(Music).
All right.
So we've seen now ways that video games can help cancer patients stick to their
treatment schedules,
and now just before the break, a game that is designed to get kids off the couch
called Zamzee.
It tracks their motion and encourages them to exercise and move more to earn
points.
That's right.
Instead of just sitting on the sofa eating a bag of potato chips, maybe it'll
encourage you to get up and move.
That will help you lose weight, which helps you earn points and makes the game
fun.
Yes, Kaylah.
And also, there are a lot of games that are coming out nowadays that are
motion-sensing.
They watch how you move.
A lot of these games are fun, friends, especially the ones that make you dance.
And I encourage you to use them.
Now I was just in a... near a game store the other day and saw two little kids
striking and running through the air.
And they looked really funny.
But hey, they're getting exercise, Ryan.
That's right.
These games are a lot of fun, and you can learn a lot of points.
And they're good for you.
They make you stronger and healthier.
OK. Well, that was different.
Ryan is in here dancing trying to earn his points for his fake Zamzee.
It's not working.
Well, we're going to look at another way that games can help people stay
healthier.
OK. Well, let's look at this one that is encouraging healthy habits.
Now a habit is the way you do something, a pattern of what you do.
OK. So now let's look at another game.
This game was originally intended to help diabetic patients live healthier
lives.
And it's called HealthSeeker.
OK. Now we need to know what diabetic means.
Diabetic is someone who has diabetes - and that is a disease where the body
cannot control the level of sugar in your body.
So you need to take usually insulin shots or pills to help with that.
So it's really unfortunate.
It can affect your whole life.
So this game is... its goal is to help you eat healthier so that you can live
with less of the effects of diabetes.
Exactly. And friends, "diabetes" requires a lot of work.
You have to always be checking your blood sugar levels.
And so this is a great game to help you stay on track.
Now you might remember the other games require you to have a gaming platform.
This is a little bit different.
That's right.
HealthSeeker is a social game on Facebook that, well, anyone can play.
Yes. Whether you have diabetes or not, you can play this social game usually
with other people.
Now the game features level-based missions designed to encourage healthy diet
and lifestyle choices.
OK. Now a "lifestyle" is the way that someone lives their life.
So this game encourages you to make better lifestyle... choices, better choices
in your life.
And by doing it in a social network setting such as Facebook, you get to
interact with people.
You are relating to people, working with people and can encourage and be
encouraged by your friends.
OK. That's a great point, Kaylah.
Now this game is level-based.
Something that is level-based means you start with one level, and then once you
finish that, you move to the next level in the game.
So it gives you smaller missions.
OK, missions.
To accept a certain mission, players must first select three health-related
activities to carry out.
OK. If you're carrying out something, then you're doing it.
So Kaylah, what's really going on here?
They're selecting health-related activities?
That's right, health-related.
Maybe this has to do with exercise.
Maybe you're dancing, swimming, running, jumping, playing a game.
Maybe you're doing healthier diet.
You're eating more vegetables and fruit and less meat and carbohydrates.
I don't know. I don't know what all of these activities are.
But there's a bunch to choose from.
OK. So this is a great way to give them some goals that they can actually do in
real life, not just in a video game.
If they do finish all three of those activities within one week, then they
complete the mission and earn experience points.
Now sometimes in a game, you want to earn just points.
But these are experience points.
It's to encourage them to do what they have said they're going to do, to
experience it.
Now afterward, they can share the accomplishments with their friends and cheer
on other players.
That sounds fun.
This is a social game.
People can encourage each other, not just compete against each other.
And once again, it affects your daily life.
It affects you in real life, not just in the virtual world.
OK. Now friends, we've talked about games to improve your health.
But it's important to remember games for health can not replace a doctor's
advice.
But they can be an important part of an overall treatment plan.
The treatment plan is how they are helping you get better.
OK. So if the doctor gives you a treatment plan, you might have to take some
medicine, you might have to eat healthier or exercise.
But these games can also help.
They can be a part of, but not the main part.
Now the games are being developed today, they'll... are going to help people in
the future.
They're going to help treat new patients tomorrow.
So it's always developing.
That's right.
Friends, you've learned a lot about video games and how they can actually help,
not just entertain.
I hope you remember that.
But for now, let's go visit the Chat Room.
OK. It sounds like we've got the game plan all figured out.
I'll see you later tonight.
Bye.
Boy, this is going to be fun.
What's going to be fun?
I couldn't help overhearing your phone conversation.
Are you playing a game?
No, Ken. I'm not playing a game.
I'm planning a surprise party for my brother tonight.
Wow! That does sound like fun.
But I thought you said you had figured out the game plan.
If you're not playing a game, what was that about?
Well, the term "game plan" doesn't necessarily refer to a game.
It just means a plan for how something is going to be done.
So the game plan for tonight includes deciding when and where we'll have the
party, how I'll get my brother there, where the food will come from and so on.
I see.
It's so nice of you to plan this for your brother.
Well, he did throw a surprise party for me last year.
So I decided that two can play that game and started planning one for him.
It sounds like you're comparing the party to a game again.
Is that another idiom?
Yes, it is.
Say, why don't we have Studio Classroom's Editor-in-Chief Doris explain how it's
used.
OK.
The idiom "two can play that game" means that two people can act in the same
way.
Another way of phrasing it is: That's a game that two can play.
For example, one could say: Andy told our boss all about my mistakes, but two
can play that game.
This would suggest that the speaker plans to tell the boss about Andy's
mistakes.
OK. So if you say two can play that game, that means you plan to do the same
thing to another person that they did to you.
Right.
And if you do a better job than the other person, then you can say you beat him
at his own game.
That means doing an even better job than the person who started the whole thing.
I see.
Well, good luck planning the party.
I hope you beat your brother at his own game.
(Chinese).
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).
And that concludes our Language Tips today.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
OK.
Video game and Internet technology is being used to create games that will
improve the health of those that play them.
Games that inspire young cancer patients encourage youth to be more active.
And games that assist young people with diet and lifestyle choices are already
being played and enjoyed by young people, and some old people too, around the
world.
OK, everyone.
Have some fun today.
Speak a little English, and then join us next time for another lesson here at
Studio Classroom.
Take care.