{"id":74505,"date":"2025-01-28T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/fortnite-star-mongraal-goes-viral-after-appearing-in-students-english-textbook-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:31:29","slug":"fortnite-star-mongraal-goes-viral-after-appearing-in-students-english-textbook-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/fortnite-star-mongraal-goes-viral-after-appearing-in-students-english-textbook-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite star Mongraal goes viral after appearing in student\u2019s English textbook &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite star Mongraal goes viral after appearing in student\u2019s English textbook MongraalA student was left shocked when they discovered former Fortnite pro Kyle \u2018Mongraal\u2019 Jackson was featured as part of an exercise in their English textbook. Ever since Mongraal effectively retired from competing in Fortnite, the once-young English prodigy has switched up his esports career to pursue content creation. Instead, he can be often found streaming on Twitch or regularly pumping out videos on YouTube for Fortnite. Following a break, he has returned to stream the game after its record-breaking rise in popularity off the back of Season OG. However, he has now gone viral after a student found him featured inside their English textbook as part of one of their tasks. Student shocked after discovering Fortnite legend Mongraal in her English textbook Fortnite player and creator Eympra asked: \u201cWhy is Mongraal in my English book?\u201d as they were left shocked to discover one of the exercises in the textbook was centered around the iconic Fortnite star. The task referenced a throwback to his achievement of being one of the youngest professional esports players of all time: \u201cIn 2018, Kyle Jackson(UK) ______ the youngest professional Fortnite gamer at the age of 13.\u201d Students then have to fill in the blank with one of the verbs shown above the sentence, making sure to use the correct tense, as seen in the photo below. Mongraal\u2019s surprise reference soon went viral on Twitter\/X, as many fans couldn\u2019t believe it. \u201cThere\u2019s no way right?\u201d One user commented, as another responded: \u201cThis is actually wild.\u201d While some couldn\u2019t even figure out the answer to the somewhat easy question: \u201cWhy do none of the options fit the first one?\u201d As a user explained: \u201cyou\u2019d have to conjugate the past tense, so in this case \u2018become\u2019 would be \u2018became.&#8217;\u201d With the Fortnite\u2019s Mongraal appearing in educational textbooks, it just show how far professional gaming has became in regards to entering the mainstream. This has also rang true for creators, such as KSI who has had his rise to fame being taught in British schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite star Mongraal goes viral after appearing in student\u2019s English textbook MongraalA student was left shocked when they discovered former Fortnite pro Kyle \u2018Mongraal\u2019 Jackson was featured as part of an exercise in their English textbook. Ever since Mongraal effectively retired from competing in Fortnite, the once-young English prodigy has switched up his esports career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}