Exercise 1 In this units we are talking about robotics in class. Listen to a recording about robots and films here. How many of these robots did you know? Answer the questions below on the blog.
a. What is the text about?
1. The history of TV
2. Robots from films and TV programmes
3. Robots in the future
b. Write the names of the characters next to the statements.
1. The robot is a small metal dog. Dr Who
2. This robot can talk, but it cant talk.
3. He's a police officer with a robotic arm.
4. This robot is half human, half-robot.
5. He's strong, he's fast and he's bad.
Exercise 2 How much do you know about toy robots? Check out this website and answer the questions on the blog.
a. What does the robot dog behave like?
b. What is Robocup?
c. What is Kismet's most special characteristic?
d. How many facial expressions can Kismet make?
e. What does the robotic head examine?
Exercise 3 To finish, read again this text about Carl's favourite gadgets. Then, take out some of the words. Can you reconstruct the text?
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