Unit 6 Before You Read Brain Games Reading Skill
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Discuss your answers in A with a partner. C Now read the entire passage carefully. Then answer the questions on page 104. Left Brains, Right Brain!i, and Board liames r It's not an easy task to do: You need to whistle the song Stayin' Alive with enough skill for your teammate to identify the 1970s disco hit. On your next turn, your partner draws a clue with his eyes closed, and you have to guess what it is. You might also find yourself spelling words backward in order to win a round. These odd challenges are part of the "whole brain" 5 board game that tries to satisfy the world's intellectual hunger, appropriately called Cranium. 1 In November 1997, personal experience led Richard Tait to consider this new type of board game that, unlike popular uni-skill games, incorporates a variety of talents. on vacation with his wife and another couple, they found themselves stuck indoors one rainy afternoon and decided to pass the time with a board game. They first played Pictionary 2 and Tait and his 10 wife badly beat the other team. His competitors then sought revenge and quickly challenged· Tait and his wife to a game of scrabble. 3 Tait admits his friends were the overwhelming victors in the popular word game. � "I felt terrible and wondered why there wasn't a game where everyone that plays can have a chance to shine-still a competitive, fun board game, but one where everyone can show 15 what they are good at," explains Tait. When Tait and his good friend Whit Alexander left their jobs at Microsoft, they vowed to jump at any future opportunities to work together. So Tait approached Alexander to help him examine the possibilities of producing a new board game. In only nine short months, the two former Microsoft employees conceived a unique game that 20 is designed to include something for everyone, and took it to a market that had been craving something different. once they decided to take the proverbial plunge, 4 they began conducting research to further develop 25 the concept of their "whole brain" game. The two gathered as much knowledge as they could about the history of social games, comparing their findings against the Download 0.59 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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