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.

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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.