jueves, 23 de junio de 2011

Second Life on BBC

Self-study activity:
Watch this short segment on Second Life from BBC news and answer the questions below.



1 How much has the city grown in a month?
2 What’s the total of the people who have created fictional versions of themselves?
3 What does Andy do in real life?
4 How do residents pay the goods they buy?
5 What problems are residents suffering?
6 Why did an old resident criticize the new comers?

You can read the transcript here.

Key:
1 By half a million people 2 One and half million 3 He’s a college lecturer 4 With real money 5 Land prices are soaring, computer bugs 6 They are just interested in making money