4. Video Games
Listen to a short English conversation about video games to practice your English speaking and listening skills.
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Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly conversations for listening, imitation and shadowing practice. Today is episode 4 and we’re talking about video games with Luke.
Luke: Hey Emma, how are you?
Emma: I am well. How are you?
Luke: Doing good.
Emma: Very good. Do you play video games?
Luke: I do. I play ‘em a little bit.
Emma: Little bit. What game did you play most recently?
Luke: I played a game called ‘Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair.’
Emma: ‘Yooka Laylee.’ That’s…that’s interesting. Tell us a little bit about ‘Yooka Laylee.’
Luke: Uhh, well this one was a 2D platformer. Its Its kind of like ‘Donkey Kong Country.’ Um. So. And its also a really, really hard game and I still haven’t beaten it, so.
Emma: That’s probably the ‘impossible’ part in “Impossible Lair.”
Luke: I think-I think that might be it. How about you? What kinds of games are you in to?
Emma: I don’t play video games too much anymore. I used to uh, when I was younger, play, um, RPG games. I guess I’ll always play a Zelda game whenever a Zelda game comes out.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: ‘The Legend of Zelda.’
Luke: Yep. What was your favorite Zelda game?
Emma: Uh, ‘The Ocarina of Time.’ And its old but it is good.
Luke: That is a good one. I think they remade that one also, right?
Emma: Uh, they, they didn’t they remake it for the Gameboy? I don’t think they remade it in like high-definition or anything.
Luke: They need to do that though. That should be their number one priority.
Emma: They really should. Probably as other games, older games are getting remade for the younger audience.
Luke: Mm-hm. Yeah. And they, I think they just came out with Link’s Awakening for the Nintendo Switch.
Emma: That’s true.
Luke: That one looked fun.
Emma: ‘Animal Crossing’ just came out. I know a lot of people play Animal Crossing.
Luke: That one is really cool. And its not, not quite as stressful to play as Zelda or Mario or something.
Emma: I don’t know, taking care of your house can be pretty hard.
Luke: That’s true. Yep. Hashtag Real life.
Emma: That’s true. Alright. Uh, that concludes our conversation on video games for today. For transcripts and vocabulary lists please go to our website at www.dialoguefrog.com and we’ll see you next time.
Luke: See ya.
Video games
A little bit
Most recently
Yooka Laylee (The name of a video game and a play on the word Ukulele, the small guitar-like instrument from Hawaii.)
Impossible
Lair
2D
Platformer (a type of video game where you run, jump and crawl around things. Super Mario Bros. is a famous example of a platformer game.)
Kind of like
Hard
Still
Beat
Probably
Anymore
Younger
RPG (Role Playing Game: a type of video game with a long story and many characters.
Legend
Ocarina
Remade
Gameboy
High-definition
Number one priority
Audience
Stressful
Taking care of
Hashtag (the # used in social media)
Concludes
Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly conversations for listening, imitation and shadowing practice. Today is episode 4 and we’re talking about video games with Luke.
Luke: Hey Emma, how are you?
Emma: I am well. How are you?
Luke: Doing good.
Emma: Very good. Do you play video games?
Luke: I do. I play ‘em a little bit.
Emma: Little bit. What game did you play most recently?
Luke: I played a game called ‘Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair.’
Emma: ‘Yooka Laylee.’ That’s…that’s interesting. Tell us a little bit about ‘Yooka Laylee.’
Luke: Uhh, well this one was a 2D platformer. Its Its kind of like ‘Donkey Kong Country.’ Um. So. And its also a really, really hard game and I still haven’t beaten it, so.
Emma: That’s probably the ‘impossible’ part in “Impossible Lair.”
Luke: I think-I think that might be it. How about you? What kinds of games are you in to?
Emma: I don’t play video games too much anymore. I used to uh, when I was younger, play, um, RPG games. I guess I’ll always play a Zelda game whenever a Zelda game comes out.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: ‘The Legend of Zelda.’
Luke: Yep. What was your favorite Zelda game?
Emma: Uh, ‘The Ocarina of Time.’ And its old but it is good.
Luke: That is a good one. I think they remade that one also, right?
Emma: Uh, they, they didn’t they remake it for the Gameboy? I don’t think they remade it in like high-definition or anything.
Luke: They need to do that though. That should be their number one priority.
Emma: They really should. Probably as other games, older games are getting remade for the younger audience.
Luke: Mm-hm. Yeah. And they, I think they just came out with Link’s Awakening for the Nintendo Switch.
Emma: That’s true.
Luke: That one looked fun.
Emma: ‘Animal Crossing’ just came out. I know a lot of people play Animal Crossing.
Luke: That one is really cool. And its not, not quite as stressful to play as Zelda or Mario or something.
Emma: I don’t know, taking care of your house can be pretty hard.
Luke: That’s true. Yep. Hashtag Real life.
Emma: That’s true. Alright. Uh, that concludes our conversation on video games for today. For transcripts and vocabulary lists please go to our website at www.dialoguefrog.com and we’ll see you next time.
Luke: See ya.
Video games
A little bit
Most recently
Yooka Laylee (The name of a video game and a play on the word Ukulele, the small guitar-like instrument from Hawaii.)
Impossible
Lair
2D
Platformer (a type of video game where you run, jump and crawl around things. Super Mario Bros. is a famous example of a platformer game.)
Kind of like
Hard
Still
Beat
Probably
Anymore
Younger
RPG (Role Playing Game: a type of video game with a long story and many characters.
Legend
Ocarina
Remade
Gameboy
High-definition
Number one priority
Audience
Stressful
Taking care of
Hashtag (the # used in social media)
Concludes
