Speaking: What do you think about video games?

You should say:
- What video games is (the definition)
- The kind of video games you know
- Why video games are so appealing to people
- Who often plays video games
- How to make playing video games useful

My outline:

- Video game is an electronic game. This is an interaction between a player and a video device such as TV screen or computer monitor to generate visual feedback on a video device.

- Many kinds of video games:
  + Action games: ball and paddles, fighting games
  + Shooter: light gun shooter, tactical (chiến lược) shooter
  + Strategy: war games, real time strategy
  + Sport: racing, sport games

-Video games are appealing people because:
  + When playing games people feel excited, focus, interested, and more powerful => may forget the time
  + combine with: cinematic storytelling
                             excellent music
                             social interaction
=>Make games never boring

- People who like to play games are: kids and teenagers bcz they:
  + are curious, want to know/ discover new things
  + like to break the rules of parents, teachers
  + feel themselves stronger when they can overcome challenges in the games.

-Negative effect:
  + teach the kids wrong values. In some video games: violent behavior, aggression are rewarded
  + children may easily increase violent, aggressive thought, feelings, behaviors =>become violent people in the real life.
  + learn bad language and behavior from others when playing games online.
  + spend more time to play games (ignore homework, reading, sports, interacting with family and friends => become social isolated, don't want to communicate => confuse between reality and fantasy.

-         Positive effects:

According to psychologist and education experts, playing games can give the brain a real work out, it makes change the Brain’s physical structure. In many video games, the skills requied to win involve abstract and high level thinking.

Some metal skills enhanced such as:

  + Problem solving and logic (ex: have more creative ways to solve puzzles).

  + Hand- eye coordination, find reflex skills

  + Quick thinking, making fast analysis and decisions => sometimes the game player does this almost every second of the game => it makes a brain a new work out.  

  + Accuracy: action games train the player’s brain to make faster decision without losing accuracy.

ð Playing games is not absolutely bad.

-         To make playing games usefully:

  + Choose the good kinds of games to play (can stimulate creative, analysis skills such as puzzles or strategic games)

  + Don’t spent so much time playing games, just play for relax, not abuse ./.

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