Step 1 - Listening

Project Earth is leaving beta

You are going to listen to a podcast from Nature about the video game Earth.

Assignment 1

On your own, translate the following words into Dutch. In your group, discuss your answers.

  • a crucial link
  • compatibility issues
  • crowdfunding
  • enhance our experience
  • exposing the simulation
  • forums for first-timers
  • griefers and trolls
  • history leak
  • many career questlines
  • The new 'End of the World' event
  • the player’s behaviour
  • we've implemented a system

 

Questions assignment 2

Read the questions and listen to the podcast.

  1. To whom is this message addressed?
  2. What is the bad news?
  3. How many new features are there in this update?
  4. Which change will address the 'conspiracy theory' phenomenon?
  5. What is the correct order of the fixed problems?
  6. What has been removed?
  7. What was the problem with the History Leak phenomenon?
  8. What do they hope to achieve with this new version?
  9. What is going to happen on the twenty-first of December?
  10. What is the name of the company who built the game.

Listen to the audio 'Project Earth'.