1. Escuela Profesional de Turismo y Hotelera UNIT 8 TECHNOLOGY 2. How do robots help humans? Pepper the robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCFYw8mIqcc 3. http://www.eyercize.com/practice/paste_read Its difficult to remember what life was like before technology. It solves mathematical problems for us. It sends messages to friends in a second. It even cooks dinner for us. When technology makes a mistake, its only because its following instructions from a human. So, whats the next big step in technology? Robots are common in industry such as car manufacturing and recently NASA sent the first humanoid robot into space where it works on the International Space Station. Its called Robotnaut 2 or R2 and it does all the simple or repetitive jobs so the astronauts can spend more time doing experiments. Perhaps in a few years time every home will have their own R2. 4. INVENTIONS Braille Electric bulb Microwave oven Post-it Telescope How are they important to humans? 5. Complete the conversation with the words in the box. Then listen and check. 6. Group work Invent a robot. What does it do? How does it help humans? What are its features? Objective Use of relative pronouns: which, that, when, who, whose, where 7. When/If simple present, simple present. When/If simple present, simple future.