1-3. answers will vary. answers will vary, but robots can walk on water and upside down while only...
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1-3. Answers will vary.
Answers will vary, but robots can walk on water and upside down while only humans can feel emotions and write poems.
Most of skills are mentioned except write poems and actually feel emotions. Today’s robot cannot yet play sports or feel what they are experiencing.
Lesson 12AClick here to enlarge the passage
Vocabulary
Lesson 12A
aid
(v.) to help
dangerous
(adj.) able or likely to hurt you
industry
(n.) the work of making thing in factories
whereas
(conj.) while in contrast, because
operate
(v.) to make a machine work
alternative
(n.) a different plan from the first one
rough
(adj.) uneven, not smooth
sign
(n.) something that shows that anther thing exists or is happening
single
(adj.) only one
exist
(v.) to be present in the world as a real thing
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a, c d b, e
existindustries
operate
dangerous
signs
whereas
alternative aid
single
1
2
3
4
5
Answers will vary, but possibilities include transportation, entertainment, communication, law enforcement (police), some tasks (dog walking)
Lesson 12BClick here to enlarge the passage
Vocabulary
Lesson 12B
firm
(adj.) hard, not soft
treatment
(n.) medical attention given to sick or injured people
cell
(n.) the smallest part of a plant or an animal
program
(n.) a set of instructions for a computer to do something
pattern
(n.) a design of lines and shapes
label
(n.) information that is attached to something
drive
(v.) to operate and control a vehicle
network
(n.) a group of people or things that have a connection with one another and work together
succeed
(v.) to reach a goal or do well at something
replace
(v.) to take the place of something
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faces (bodies)
firm
smart
small
color
pattern
sleeve
networkprogram
drivereplace
treatment
patternssucceed
program
cell
label
firm
pattern
life
planetsurface
land
roughoperate
patterns
alternative
existed
whereas
signs drive
1 and 2. Answers will vary.
For More Information
http://www.razorrobotics.com/
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/tp/Future_Techno.htm
Key Words for Internet Research
animal-bots future technology
robotic body parts
Asimo Mars Rover service robots
robots nanotechnology
EveR-1 RFID
Reading SkillsReading Skills
Reading for Gist
• Reading for gist is reading to get a general sense of what a reading passage is basically about. In other words, we read to understand the main topic, or theme of the passage. For example, a reading passage might basically be about a new type of technology, or a tourist's vacation trip, or a story about a fictional character.
Recognizing the Purpose• Recognizing the purpose of a text involves
firstly asking yourself a few important questions such as “What am I reading?” to determine text type (eg: newspaper article, website, advertisement), “Why did the author write the text?”, to establish author’s objectives, and “Why am I reading this text?”, to determine your own reading objectives and what you can extract from the passage.
Identifying Details• Identifying details in a text to answer specific
questions (eg: who, what, when, where, why) is often achieved through a strategy known as ‘Scanning’ for details. This is actually a technique often used in daily life when looking up a word in the telephone book or dictionary. Also when you read a newspaper, you're probably not reading it word-by-word, instead you're scanning the text for important information of interest.
Understanding Reference
• Understanding reference in a text is an important reading skill which involves focusing on specific meaning of ‘pronoun references’ used throughout a passage (eg: this, those, their, it). This is an important skill to help develop full comprehension of significant details of a section of a passage which refer back to previous statements made.
Making Inferences
• When we read a text, the author does not tell us everything. Therefore, we must be able to guess some things and make clear assumptions from the information, facts, opinions and author’s feelings presented in the passage. Such a process of guessing and critical thinking is called ‘Making inferences’
Understanding the Main Idea
• Once we've determined the text type of a passage, and what it's generally about, we usually then read on to understand the main idea of the passage. In other words: What is the writer basically telling us? Or, What is the writer's main message? Understanding the main idea of a text means being able to identify the most important point or information in the passage.