LISTENING COMPREHENSION E-Sports : gaming can pay pay college tuition fees fees
Before you Watch :
Student A /B
Look at the picture , then answer briefly :
a- What does it show ? The picture shows gamers who are concentrated on their screens. The banners announce that Robert Morris University is now “recruiting collegiate collegiate gamers” and offers “scholarships”. b- Who is it for ? (the target) The people targeted are “ collegiate gamers ”, university students c- What is offered ? A scholarship is offered. In France, scholarships are offered to students whose parents cannot afford to pay for their children’s needs when they go to university (or to school). d- Who is recruiting ? Robert Morris University is recruiting . Read the title of the recording
:
E-Sports : gaming can pay college tuition tuition fees
e- What do you think e-sports are ? The letter e stands for “electronic”. “E-Sports E-Sports”” refer to video games or games played online. f-
Explain the link between the title and the picture ? The students on the picture must be “collegiate gamers” at Robert at Robert Morris University. They play video games in order to pay for their tuition fees.
g- Make a list of
words you think you will hear in the recording.
Students – Students – university – university – college – college – video games – video games – gaming gaming – fees – fees – scholarship – scholarship – league of Legends – league Legends – play play
- e-sports
Robert Morris Morris – – tuition tuition
Student A
Now Watch .
GLOBAL COMPREHENSION
Nature of document ?
Watch the whole document once and notes
a news report a documentary
a movie trailer
a commercial
Source / origin : BBC How many speakers?
3
Who are they ( their role) ?
the journalist / Kurt Melcher = sports coach (= a university professor)
/ a student gamer
Topic ? The report deals with e-sports at Robert Morris University in Chicago and the
scholarship gamers can receive.
DETAILED COMPREHENSION
Listen carefully to the heavily stressed words and take
notes . Fill in the charts below.
About the Scholarship offered scholarship is offered by
About the Practice practice a lot
to be the
About the parallel with traditional sports Video gaming is a sport =
American
Robert Morris University in
best
football, baseball, and soccer.
Chicago / USA
play every day and train to
E-sports are as competitive
Kurt Melcher = sports coach
be the best / not be
gaming develops capacities
defeated at League of
very detail-oriented
Legend s; s;
E-sports are not cardiovascular
e-sports scholarships were his idea. students who are very good/excellent
gamers / are
but
Monday through Friday, four- strategic mind.
ready to play the video game
hour blocks
League of Legends of Legends (in the
Equipment
school’’s team) school
keyboards and high-end
mechanical
students = champion gamers computers’ computers’ monitors scholarship that can pay for their tuition fees and lead them
hand-eye coordination and a
lessons
analysis and
discussions on tactics.
to a career as a professional athlete team called “Eagles compete with 105 schools
Numbers you hear
What these numbers correspond to the scholarships offered to the -
Tens of thousands of dollars
students. what the students pay to study at the University. number of schools that play in the
105
league. the length of time they practise each
4 (hours)
day
Student B
Now Watch . GLOBAL COMPREHENSION
Nature of document ?
Watch the whole document once and notes
a news report a documentary
a movie trailer
a commercial
Source / origin : BBC How many speakers?
3
Who are they ( their role) ?
the journalist / Kurt Melcher = sports coach (= a university professor)
/ a student gamer
Topic ? The report deals with e-sports at Robert Morris University in Chicago and the
scholarship gamers can receive.
DETAILED COMPREHENSION
Focus on
a- Considering the pictures and the words stressed by the journalist, traditionally, who are scholarships offered to ? Tick
the right answer.
good athletes b- What number do you hear? What does it correspond to? sentence.
Tick
the right
Tens of thousands of dollars
It corresponds to: the scholarships offered to the students. what the students pay to study at the University. c-
What are the benefits of scholarships ? Fill in the blanks with stressed words.
Scholarships can pay for your tuition and lead to a career as a professional
athlete. d- Look at the students on the video. What is their field of excellence ? ; they are champion gamers. These students play League of Legends e- Pick out details about their university.
Country the US
f-
City Chicago
Name of the University Robert Morris University
Use your answers above to explain why this university is different from traditional ones.
Traditionally, students win scholarships because they are athletes/excellent at sports; but in this university they can earn a scholarship to play the video game League of Legends in the school’s team. g- Why do you think universities offer scholarships to champions?
Because they consider playing video games is a sport; because they think gaming develops capacities; they want their students to win competitions, to improve the reputation of the University, etc. Focus on
:
h- Who is Kurt Melcher ?
Kurt Melcher is a sports coach, and e-sports scholarships were his idea. i-
Say what 105 corresponds to :
number of schools that play in the league. j-
Pick out details about the practice.
The team practices Monday through Friday, four hours a day. k- Pick out words about practice conditions.
: Their equipment: mechanical keyboards and high-end
computers’’ monitors computers
: analysis and discussions on tactics. l-
Why do they practise so much?
Because they want to (keep up and) be the best. m- Use your answers above to explain what these students must do to get a scholarship.
These students must play every day and train to be the best/ not be defeated at League of Legend s; this is why they practice a lot. s; Focus on
:
n- Note down the three traditional sports mentioned.
American football, baseball, and soccer. o- Compare traditional sports and e-sports.
Both are competitive; E-sports are not cardiovascular but they require hand-eye coordination and a strategic mind.
Transcription American universities have a long tradition of awarding scholarships to students who display excellence out on the sports field. With a US degree costing tens of thousands of dollars, an athletic scholarship can pay for tuition and in some cases lead to a career as a professional athlete. These students are benefiting from scholarships which cover some of the cost of their university degrees. They are part of a college team which plays the videogame League, of Legends, competitively. Robert Morris University in Chicago is the first in the world to offer an athletic scholarship of this kind.
Interview de Kurt Kurt Melcher, E-Sport coordinator à Robert Morris University University Kurt Melcher is one of the sports coaches at the college. The “electronic” or “eSports” scholarship was his idea. "We are in a collegiate league, there are 105 other schools that are in this league. We are the only ones that have decided to be varsity and give athletic scholarships for it. They practice Monday through Friday, four-hour blocks, so everyone in this room is receiving some sort of scholarship. So it’s somewhat like a job, but, you know, it’s a job that they love.” RMU’s e-sports e-sports team, the Eagles, have a dedicated practice space kitted out with responsive mechanical keyboards and high-end computers, monitors. And the players receive analysis and discussions on tactics from coaches. Much like all the colleges’ other team sports.
Interview d’un étudiant de l’équipe des Eagles I used to play League of Legend, I mean… Yeah, I was pretty much addicted to the game. But here you have to play so much to keep up and to be the best, like we’re undefeated and we do that because we practice so much.”
Interview de Kurt Melcher “I think there are so many parallels to traditional sports, outside of the physical exertion, that League of Legends and e -sports provide. It’s certainly just as competitive. When I see the players in this r oom practising, it is the competition level as you would see in American football, baseball or soccer. Just because it is not cardiovascular, it is very detail-oriented, you have to have hand-eye coordination strategic mind. All of those things mirror traditional sports up and down.
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