Get to know the game

MobileGames

Naratorn Jaikaew

Unit 1
Get to know the game

Unit 1 Get to know the game

In this unit you will…
- increase your vocabulary about game.
- practice listening about type of games.
- know about acronym.
- know about history of mobile game.

Pre-Listening – Vocabulary : Know about game

<<1.1>> Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.

Set 1

Words Definitions

1. game • a. an entertaining activity or sport

2. interface • b. the way in which information is made
available to the user on the screen
3. adventure • of a computer, mobile phone, etc.
4. strategy •
c. available or done on the internet
5. online •
d. an unusual, exciting, and possibly
dangerous activity

e. a detailed plan for achieving success
in situations

Set 2

Words • Definitions
1. survival
a. to take and keep something in your
2. quest • hand or arms

3. offline • b. a position in an organization, showing
the importance of the person having it
4. rank •
c. the state of continuing to live or to
5. hold • exist after a dangerous event

d. a long search for something that is
difficult to find, or an attempt to
achieve something difficult

e. not connected to the internet or to
a central computer system

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Pre-Listening – Vocabulary : Type of games

<<1.2>> Fill the type of games to match the picture below.

Action Role-playing Adventure Simulation Strategy
game game game game game

Sport Arcade Education
game game game

For example

Action game

Role-playing game + Action game + Adventure game
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1.

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2.

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3.

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4.

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5.

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6.

_____________________
5

7.
_____________________

8.

_____________________

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While-Listening – Diagram : Type of games

<<2.1>> ♫ Listen to the article about the type of games and fill the words in the diagram.
<<Track audio 1.2.1>>

Type of games

Major categories

_______________ _______________

Sub categories

_______________ _______________

_______________ _______________

_______________ _______________

_______________ _______________

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While-Listening – Passage : History of mobile game

<<2.2>> ♫ Listen to the article about history of mobile game and answer the questions.
<<Track audio 1.2.2>>

A mobile game is a game played on a feature phone, smartphone/tablet,
smartwatch, PDA, portable media player or graphing calculator. The earliest
known game on a mobile phone was a Tetris variant on the Hagenuk MT-2000
device from 1994.

In 1997, Nokia launched the very successful Snake (and its variants),
that was preinstalled in most mobile devices manufactured by Nokia, has since
become one of the most played games and is found on more than 350 million
devices worldwide. A variant of the Snake game for the Nokia 6110, using the
infrared port, was also the first two-player game for mobile phones.

Today, mobile games are usually downloaded from app stores as well as
from mobile operator's portals, but in some cases are also preloaded in the
handheld devices by the OEM or by the mobile operator when purchased, via
infrared connection, Bluetooth, memory card or side loaded onto the handset with
a cable.

Downloadable mobile games were first commercialised in Japan circa the
launch of NTT DoCoMo's I-mode platform in 1999, and by the early 2000s were
available through a variety of platforms throughout Asia, Europe, North America
and ultimately most territories where modern carrier networks and handsets
were available by the mid-2000s. However, mobile games distributed by mobile
operators and third party portals (channels initially developed to monetise
downloadable ringtones, wallpapers and other small pieces of content using
premium SMS or direct carrier charges as a billing mechanism) remained a
marginal form of gaming until Apple's iOS App Store was launched in 2008. As
the first mobile content marketplace operated directly by a mobile platform
holder, the App Store significantly changed the consumer behaviour and quickly
broadened the market for mobile games, as almost every smartphone owner
started to download mobile apps.

Picture 1 : Snake game in Nokia phone
Source : https://www.phonetoday.it

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1. Mobile game is in all device 6. Downloadable mobile games was
EXCEPT.? first sale in 1999.

a. mobile phone a. true
b. calculator b. false
c. tablet
d. computer 7. Smartphone is not available mobile
game.
2. What is the first game launched on
a Nokia phone? a. true
b. false
a. Snowball
b. Snake 8. The picture above is a snake game
c. Sonic Adventure or a dragon game.
d. Treasure Hunter
a. Snake game
3. When was the first time a game in b. Dragon game
Nokia phone was successful?
9. Nokia 6110, using the radio port.
a. 1994
b. 1968 a. true
c. 1997 b. false
d. 1991
10. Nokia phones have the most
4. Downloadable mobile games was played game in the world at the
first sale in what country? moment.

a. America a. true
b. Thai b. false
c. Japan
d. England

5. Which payment channel was used in
2000s.

a. bank
b. SMS
c. online payment
d. bit coin

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While-Listening – Knowledge : Acronym Type of games

Acronym of type of games
1. Action game (AG)
- Fighting game
- Shooting game

>> First person shooting game (FPS)
>>Third person shooting game (TPS)
- plat former game
- Stealth-based (SB)

2. Role-playing game (RPG)
- Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)
- Action role-playing game (ARPG)
- Simulation role-playing game (SRPG)

3. Adventure game (AG)

4. Simulation game (SG)

5. Strategy game (SG)
- Real-time strategy game (RTS)
- Action real-time strategy game (ARTS)
- Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game (MMORTS)

>> Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)
- Turn-based strategy game (TBS)

6. Sport game (SG)

7. Arcade game (AG)

8. Education game (EG)

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AG

Action game Adventure game Arcade game
SG

Simulation game Strategy game Sport game

RPG

Role-playing game
EG

Education game

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Example

Stealth-based (SB)

Picture 2 : Stealth-based game (SB), Modern Sniper
Source : Modern Sniper, Candy Mobile

First person shooting game (FPS)

Picture 3 : First person shooting game (FPS), Point Blank Strike
Source : Point Blank Strike, NEXON Company

Third person shooting game (TPS)

Picture 4 : Third person shooting game (TPS), Free Fire
Source : Free Fire, GARENA INTERNATIONAL I PRIVATE LIMITED

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Post-Listening - Practice yourself : Favorite game

<<3.1>> Have you been playing games for some time ✓?

___ Yes, I have. ___ No, I haven’t.

If you have, what the mobile games do you favorite?
1. ________________________
2. ________________________
3. ________________________

Post the pictures below.

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Post-Listening – Stress : About game

<<3.2>> Stress the words below (using ^ ).

For example

Vocabulary Stress

mission >>> ^mission
activity >>> ac^tivity

Vocabulary Stress

1. history >>> ________________________
2. action >>> ________________________
3. arcade >>> ________________________
4. sport >>> ________________________
5. education >>> ________________________
6. strategy >>> ________________________
7. mobile >>> ________________________
8. adventure >>> ________________________
9. interface >>> ________________________
10. survival >>> ________________________

Tip This is called “interface”.

Picture 5 : Interface
Source : RoV,
Good Mobile Games Private Limited

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Audio script

Unit 1 Get to know the game
<<2.1>> ♫ Listen to the article about the type of games and fill the words in the diagram.
<<Track audio 1.2.1>>

In the present, we are all familiar with online games, whether it is a
mobile game or a computer game. The highlight of this game is it can play with
others. Online games are divided into two major categories: first is multi-player
and second is single player. It is divided into sub categories more variety
depending on the nature of the game, such as action game, role-playing game,
adventure game, simulation game, strategy game, sport game, arcade game and
education game. Have we been playing games for some time?

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Answer key

<<1.1>> Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.

Set1 Set 2

1. game 1. survival
a. c.
2. interface 2. quest
b. d.
3. adventure 3. offline
d. e.
4. strategy 4. rank
e. b.
5. online 5. hold
c. a.

<<1.2>> Fill the type of games to match the pictures below.

1. Simulation game
2. Action game
3. Action game + Strategy game
4. Strategy game
5. Action game
6. Sport game
7. Arcade game
8. Education game

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Answer key

<<2.1>> ♫ Listen to the article about the type of games and fill the words in the diagram.
<<Track audio 1.2.1>>

Type of games

Major categories

Multiplayer Single player

Sub categories

Action game Role-playing game

Adventure game Simulation game

Strategy game Sport game

Arcade game Education game

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Answer key

<<2.2>> ♫ Listen to the article about history of mobile game and answer the questions.
<<Track audio 1.2.2>>

1. d.
2. b.
3. c.
4. c.
5. b.
6. a.
7. b.
8. a.
9. b.
10. a.

<<3.2>> Stress the words below (using ^ ).

Vocabulary Stress
^history
1. history >>> ^action
2. action >>> ar^cade
3. arcade >>> sport (unstress)
4. sport >>> edu^cation
5. education >>> s^trategy
6. strategy >>> ^mobile
7. mobile >>> ad^venture
8. adventure >>> ^interface
9. interface >>> sur^vival
10. survival >>>

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Reference

Naratorn J. (2018). Get to know the game [Unpublished manuscript]. English
Program B.Ed Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bansomdej
chaopraya Rajabhat University.

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