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• Making predictions
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• Receiving instructions about cyber games
E-SPORTS – TODAY AND TOMORROW L3

According to the Cambridge Online Dictionary, e-sports is “the activity of playing computer games
against other people on the Internet, often for money, and often watched by other people using the
Internet, sometimes at special organized events”. It has completely replaced interests of many young
people in traditional sports. This has a lot to do with different opportunities it offers. First, it allows
players to develop a career through playing. In addition, e-sports is also a competition that brings
people from all over the world together. Another difference is that e-sports tournaments are gender-
neutral and they offer far more opportunities for the disabled to compete.

The future of e-sports seems to be bright as in the case of a 16-year-old boy who became the best
player in the world, winning 3 million dollars thanks to e-sports. His income from just one tournament
is even more than annual incomes of some top athletes. Some predictions for the future of e-sports
are as follows:
y Most people will be familiar with the expression “e-sports”.
y Most people will be familiar with e-sports, so the popularity of e-sports will grow.
y E-sports will become an olympic game.
y Brand investments in e-sports will increase, so e-sports will generate more revenue than many
traditional sports and it will be as profitable as traditional sports.
y Major media organizations will broadcast e-sports competitions. They will pay high amounts of
money for livestreaming rights.

1. Read the text and answer the questions.
1 In what ways are e-sports tournaments different from traditional ones?

2 How will the popularity of e-sports grow?

3 What can we infer from the passage about the financial future of e-sports?

2. What do the words in bold refer to in the text?
1 it (in line 3) 3 his (in line 9)
2 they (in line 6) 4 they (in line 16)

3. Share your predictions about the following. Use the phrases given in the boxes.
I’m sure … I expect … I believe … I guess … I don’t think …

E.g. I don’t think e-sports will become more popular than football or basketball.
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