The Kinect effect is another award-winning ad in the second season of Ted initiatives.
Lesson idea:
Get students to watch the ad and note down the different uses Microsoft's XBox 360 Kinect can be put to besides playing video games.
Self-study activity:
Watch the ad and complete the blanks in the transcript with the missing words. This listening activity is suitable for Básico 2 students.
It started with a sensor that (1) ... voice and movement into magic.
XBox, Play.
We thought, this would be (2) ... to play with... and it was. But something (3) ... is happening. The world is starting to imagine things we hadn't even thought of. (4) ... things. Beautiful things. (5) ... things. Which is why even though the (6) ... is asking us what we will do with Kinect next, we're just as (7) ... to ask the world the same thing.
Key:
playing a tennis video game
playing children's games
using voice control to play movies on TV
using hand movements from the couch to turn the pages on an interactive book
a woman playing an "air violin"
some computer programmers writing code to develop new applications
a man is playing an "air xylophone"
a girl in a classroom is zooming in on a model of DNA with her hand motions
a doctor in an operating room is looking through X-rays on a screen
a scientist in a planetarium moves a star map around on the ceiling
an "air cello" and "air piano" is played
it is used to help with physical therapy
it is even used by a bomb squad to disarm a bomb in a car trunk.
Key to transcript:
1 turned 2 fun 3 amazing 4 Unexpected 5 Inspired 6 world 7 excited
