Esports and Graduation Requirements

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CELPIP Practice Reading: Reading for Viewpoints ID: #63224 Medium Esports and Graduation Requirements

Read the following article from a website.

Students in the Brantwood school district could soon earn part of their physical activity credit by playing video games. Trustees will vote next month on a proposal that would let up to forty hours in a school esports league count toward the credit, which every student must complete before graduation. Six of the district’s eight high schools now run esports clubs, and more than three hundred students signed a letter asking for the change.

Kwame Quarshie, who coaches the esports team at a Brantwood high school, says his players already train like athletes. “They keep practice logs, warm up their wrists and hands, and review game film every week,” he said. “Anyone with a failing grade sits out until it comes back up.” Quarshie added that the club has kept some students in school. “I have kids who used to skip gym who now show up every single day because of this team. That matters more to me than any trophy.”

Sigrun Rasmussen, who heads the physical education department at another district school, sees the plan very differently. “A physical activity credit has one job, and that is to get young people moving,” she said. “Sitting in a chair for two hours is not exercise, however skilled the player is.” Rasmussen said she would gladly support esports somewhere else in the timetable. “Give it a technology credit and I will cheer for those teams at every tournament,” she said.

Hamid Rahimi, a guidance counsellor, worries about who could take part. “Not every family can afford a gaming computer and fast internet at home. If the credit depends on that equipment, it will reward the students who already have the most,” Rahimi said. He wants the district to lend laptops to any student who needs one before trustees change the credit. Clemence Robichaud, who studies teen health at a children’s hospital in Vancouver, says the teams can teach teamwork but carry real risks. “Long sessions without breaks are linked to poor sleep and sore backs in teenagers,” Robichaud said. “Any program needs firm rules on screen breaks and stretching, and coaches have to enforce them.”

Using the drop-down menu (▾), choose the best option according to the information given on the website.

This article is mainly about 1.

a new gym being built for district high schoolsa contest between esports teams from several schoolsa plan to count gaming hours toward a required credita letter asking schools to ban video games

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Sigrun Rasmussen would likely say that esports players 2.

train as hard as any school athleteneed firm rules on breaks and stretchingdeserve credit, but not for physical activityshould each have equipment at home

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The author presents the proposal as 3.

a sure win for every studenta silly idea not worth a votea change trustees have already passedone that people at the schools see differently

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Most likely, Kwame Quarshie wants 4.

esports moved under a technology credita limit on how many students join the clubfewer practice hours for his teamleague hours to count toward the credit

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This article shows that 5.

the debate goes beyond whether gaming is exercisemost esports players have failing grades at schoolvideo games at school are now banned by trusteesstudents have lost interest in the esports clubs

The following is a comment by a visitor to the website page. Complete the comment by choosing the best option to fill in each blank.

My daughter plays on her school’s esports team, and she has been asking me about this vote for weeks. I did not realize that clubs already exist in 6.

eightsixsevennine

of the district’s high schools, which tells me this is not a passing trend. The coach says his players warm up their hands and review 7.

game filmpractice logsmatch statisticsopponent rankings

every week, and that matches what I see at our kitchen table on Sunday nights. It also surprised me that the proposal caps the league time that counts toward the credit at 8.

twenty hourssixty hoursten hoursforty hours

, which is more than my daughter spends on homework in a week. The counsellor’s plan to 9.

open computer rooms at nightpay for home internetlend laptops to studentsbuy gaming chairs for teams

before any change makes sense to me, because fairness matters more than speed. I hope trustees also listen to the 10.

about one hundredmore than three hundrednearly fiftyover a thousand

students who signed the letter, since they are the ones who will live with the result.

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Correct Answer: a plan to count gaming hours toward a required credit

Why this is correct: Trustees will vote on letting esports hours count toward the physical activity credit. Every speaker reacts to that proposal.

Passage Reference: Students in the Brantwood school district could soon earn part of their physical activity credit by playing video games

Tips: Test each option against Quarshie, Rasmussen, Rahimi and Robichaud, one by one. Reject an option that only repeats a place, a number or a name from the text.