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Task 8. Politics poster. Make a poster about politics. Show it to your groupmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your posters.
Lesson 14. Work

Vocabulary: assess, distant, fortune, grateful, maintenance, mundane, precise, repetitive

Reading: Leave it for the robot

Listening: ‘Love your job’

Speaking: Giving a talk

Writing: Describing your future
Vocabulary preview Cross out the words that do not have similar meanings to the words in bold

1	assess	to reverse	to examine	to evaluate
2	distant	remote	close	faraway
3	fortune	money	appearance	wealth
4	grateful	thankful	appreciative	annoyed
5	maintenance	downgrade	preservation	repairs
6	mundane	ordinary	detailed	common
7	precise	exact	accurate	average
8	repetitive	easy	recurring	over and over

Reading

Task 1. Pre reading. What jobs do you think the robots do. Discuss with a partner.

I think the robots can………

Task 2. While reading. Scan the text “Leave it for the robot”. Complete these sentences.

1 There are __________ of robots at work around the world.

2. The most common type of robotic device is a_____________

3. Two things ROVs can do are________________ and

4. The Roomba is a type of home robot that___________floors.
Text “Leave it for the robot”

1 Dirty, dangerous, and dull. These are three words you do not want to describe your job. While many jobs are a little dirty, dangerous, or dull, some are so much so that it is better not to have humans performing them at all. Would you want to be the first person to go into a building with a fire? What if a robot could assess and fix the situation? This is already happening all around the world. There are millions of robots at work today. Japan leads the way, followed by Singapore, South Korea, and Germany (see Figure 1).

2 The most common type of robotic device is a mechanical arm. This is often used in manufacturing. These arms move in many directions, and perform precise and repetitive tasks with ease. But robots have moved well beyond such simple and mundane tasks. A robot named Demeter is an agricultural harvester that can move around a field of crops, planting and harvesting by using GPS, controllers, and sensors.

3 Some robots are programmed to do certain jobs, but others are remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). ROVs can have cameras, sensors, and other devices that provide hard-to-obtain information. The U.S. space agency NASA has used ROVs to explore the surface of the moon and Mars. ROVs are also used in underwater environments. They can perform maintenance on oil drilling platforms and explore the ocean floors. They are also used to gather information on

geographical changes in volcanoes.

4 What do regular people want from robots? As seen in Figure 2, people would like robots to perform tasks around the house. One home robot on the market now is Roomba, a turtleshaped robot that slowly vacuums its way around the room. It senses walls, and turns to avoid stairs and objects on the floor. A robot that washes the windows and does the dishes could make someone a small fortune!

5 Robots will play a more important role in the future. Surely they will continue to explore the ocean, analyze the surface of distant planets, and build our cars and computers. But what else? Will more robots drive our cars for us? Will they do our laundry? Will they do our gardening? Perhaps. When someone invents that window-cleaning robot, they will be rewarded by a grateful population.
Figure 1. Top ten countries by robot density (Industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers)

Japan -295	South korea -144	Sweden 126	USA-88
Singapore-169	Germany -162	Belgium -59	Spain 84