B1- MEDIATION IN WRITING

Your Swedish correspondent in a school exchange loves playing video games. You’ve even seen photos of him/her wearing a PacMan T-shirt (see
photograph below).
You’ve found this article about Pac-Man on a website, and you think s/he would like to know these facts. Rather than share the link, you decide to write
him/her an email summarising the main ideas of the text, and using your own words. Please do not copy the text literally. Your email should be between
80-100 words long.

PAC-MAN: FIVE FACTS FOR PAC'S 40TH BIRTHDAY

Nom-nom-nom... Pac's name comes from the The creator had no game-making training
sound of eating
The person who designed and developed Pac-
Pac-Man in Japanese means "pakupaku", which Man, Toru Iwatani, had NO formal training
translates to the sound of eating! when he created Pac man.

Pac-Man was 'for female gamers’ The ghosts have names!

Pac-Man was designed to get more girls into The aim of the game is to eat all the dots
gaming! whilst getting from one end of the maze to the
At a gaming conference in 2011, Toru Iwatani next.
said: But it's not that simple, you also have to avoid
Most of the games already out in the 1980's the four ghosts who all have names...
were based on shooting and violence and Pac- Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.
Man was created as a lighter alternative! In addition to their names they all have their
Can you get the high score?
According to Toru Iwatani, the cuter, friendly own personalities.
design of Pac-Man was to encourage women to
The maximum high score for Pac-Man
play more games.
is 3333360 points!
This score has been achieved by just 12
people... so far!

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52769868

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