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ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
(01:06)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is a robot?
2. What is an ‘industrial robot’?
3. What is robotics?
4. What do robotic engineers do?
5. Do you know the following words:
“sophisticated”, “stock exchange”.
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video-track a part by part and answer the following questions:
00:00 – 00:22
6. What is RTS (Robotic Technology System)?
7. What does RTS specialize in?
00:23 – 00:39
8. Fill in the gaps in the following passage with the words you hear:
| … A recognized (1) __________ in a chosen (2) __________ RTS operates (3) __________ , supplying (4) __________ and innovative (5) __________ for life science drug discovery, food (6) __________ applications, and (7) __________ and support (8) __________ in the nuclear industry. … |
00:40 - end
9. What do engineers of this company help their clients to do?
10. What financial organization does RTS cooperate with?
POST-LISTENING
11. Do you know any other international organization of the kind? Get ready to speak about it.
ROBOTS WITH THE MIND OF THEIR OWN
(01:35)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is a robot?
2. What is a simple robot made of?
3. How does a robot operate?
4. Do you know the following words? Study their meaning in your glossary or dictionary:
“(to) swarm”, “artificial”, “alongside”.
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video-track a part by part and answer the following questions:
00:00 – 00:20
5. Fill in the gaps in the following passage with the words you hear:
| Until (1) __________ it has been a stuff of (2) __________ fiction – many (3) __________ joining together, a bit like Lego, to form one big (4) __________ capable of performing tasks too (5) __________ or (6) __________ for (7) __________ . Hundreds of (8) __________ from the UK are working alongside colleagues in (9) __________ to make this vision a (10)__________ . … |
00:21 – 00:44
6. What is in the box shown in the track?
7. What is the aim of this project?
8. Fill in the gaps in the following passage with the words you hear:
| … What do we want to do in the next (1) __________ years is to (2) __________ robots so that they can (3) __________ join and (4) __________ a kind of (5) __________-dimensional artificial (6)__________ . … |
00:45 - end
9. What are the ambitious aims of usage of this new technology?
10. Does the speaker think that we should be worried because of the fact that these robots are going to have mind of their own?
11. When, as it is said in the track, this project is going to be a reality?
POST-LISTENING
12. Do you think that robots have their own mind? Why?
13. Do you think that people should be afraid of robots with their own mind in future? Why?
GADGETS
Part I
1. Look at the pictures (1-4). Can you guess what the things on the pictures are? Answer the following questions:
- What are they made of?
- Which is the most expensive?
- Which is the cheapest?
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* (“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 18, pg.20, ex.1)