THE ADVANTAGES OF VIDEO GAMES

Specific Purpose : To inform my audience about the advantages of playing video games
Central Idea : Video games has a lot of advantages especially for our health, motivation and
cognitive management.

Introduction
I. Greet the audience with salam for muslim and good morning for non muslim.
A. Assalamualaikum and very good morning I bid to all.
II. Use plan attention getter by questioning the audience to make them think for a while.

Body
1. Video games can help the children who are ill or have injuries, improve the children with attention
deficit disorders, and form of physiotherapy.
A. Video games help children who are ill or have injuries.
1. The absorption in a game distracts the mind from pain and discomfort.
2. Many hospitals are encouraging children and others undergoing painful treatments to
play games.
B. Playing games could help children with attention deficit disorders.
1. Griffiths a professor at Nottingham University wrote in a medical journal that playing
games could help children with attention deficit disorders.
2. Research indicates that the children could gain social skills.
C. Playing video games can form of physiotherapy.
1. Many medical departments are using computer games as a form of physiotherapy.
2. Help people who are recovery from physical injuries gain motor skills and coordination
too.

2. Playing video games can boost self-esteem and help children learn the value of persistence,
having skills and intelligence, and zone of proximal development.
A. Video games can help boost self-esteem and help children learn the value of persistence.

1. Video games can help boost self-esteem and help children learn the value of persistence
during setting specific tasks and allowing young people to work through obstacles to achieve
those tasks.
2. Video game players solve problems and achieve greater expertise.
B. Video games help children having skills and become more intelligence.
1. More they play computer games, the more skills they will get.
2. Gaming helps young people realize that intelligence is incremental.
C. Playing video games keeps players in the "zone of proximal development".
1. Allows them to solve problems on their own while working towards specific goals.
2. Provide intermittent reinforcement to encourage players not to give up despite growing
challenges.
3. Thinking skill have developed because every level have different task that they need to
solve.
3. Plaing video games can improve problem-solving skills, improve language and math skills and
enhance creativity, and open up the mind set or thinking skill.
A. As we all know, playing video games allow young people to improve problem-solving skills.
1. By learning to solve puzzles through trial-and-error.
2. Interactive games also appear to improve creativity.
3. The skills learned from video games generalize to real-world situations, early research
results seem promising.
B. Some of games have their chat room so that it can improve language skills.
1. With implications for so many disciplines, the Pellis original research and novel findings
will not only expand our current knowledge of play behavior.
2. It will inspire change and progress from the laboratory to the playground.
C. Video games also appear to produce greater neural processing and efficiency, improve attention
functioning, and help with pattern recognition.
1. Best results appear to come from "shooter" video games as opposed to puzzle-solving or
role-playing games though modern games tend to be too complex to make easy conclusions.
2. Cognitive advantages from video games also appear to produce greater neural processing
and efficiency.

Conclusion
I. I hope you are understand from my explanation and know there are a lot of benefits from playing
the video games and it is not only the disadvantages.
II. Thats all for today, Thank you.