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The Brain TED TALK Reading Comprehension Questions and Vocabulary
The Brain TED TALK Reading Comprehension Questions and Vocabulary
Daphne Bavelier: The brain under the influence of the video games
Watch the TED Talk conference and answer the following questions with
T (true) or F (false). Justify the false answers.
1. Ninety percent of adults play video games.
4. People who don’t play a lot of action games have better vision
than those who indulge into playing videogames like 5, 10 or 15
hours per week.
TED TALK
Daphne Bavelier: The brain under the influence of the video games
VOCABULARY
Read the sentences (1-10). The words in bold are used in the TED Talk. First guess the
meaning of the words. Then match the words with their definitions (a-g).
1. I’d like you to put this kind of knee-jerk reaction in the context of what you would have
thought if you had found your girl playing sudoku or your boy reading Shapespeare.
2. The issue is what happens with these guys that actually indulge into playing video
games like 5 hours per week, 10 hours per week, 15 hours per week.
4. As your attention shifts to your cell phone, you are actually losing the capacity to react
swiftly to the car braking in front of you….
5. …those people that identify as being high multimedia-taskers are absolutely abysmal
at multitasking.
6. You know, they have this sort of gut feeling that, really, they are doing really, really
good.
10. These are not people that usually meet every day, but it’s actually doable, and we are
on the right track.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.