News English Lessons
ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on the Virtual Economy

Virtual goods will be the big in 2010. Maggie Shiels, a technology reporter from the BBC we are at the start of a in the virtual economy. More and more people will buy things that aren’t . Virtual goods only on computers. Ms Shiels said a big area is gaming. She said gamers will billions of dollars buying weapons and avatars. The idea of virtual goods is . Most people nowadays are used to buying things like digital birthday cards. Some of us even pay to send flowers.

The Internet is so many things in our lives. It is a big part of life today. We spend and hours online. It only makes we will spend money while surfing. Social networking like Facebook and MySpace have been to see money-making opportunities. An industry said: "We have found tens of millions, of millions of people playing these games. They would never themselves as gamers. Yet they spend real money to play these games. In some , they spend lots of money.”