Ingles Unidad 1

Unit 1. Activities

Lenguaje in context

1.1.- Match the ideas with the paragraphs (see page 5)

a.- Professor Lennat’s predictions 3
b.- Description of Cog 1
c.- Brooks’ work 2
d.-Cyc’s characteristics 2

1.2.- Find words in the text that mean

a.- A future robot: Android Wannabe

b.- Intelligent: Smart

c.- Find something new: Discover

d.- Mistake: Error

e.- Realinformation: Facts

f.- See the future: Predict

g.-Investigate: Research

h.- Period of life before adolescence: Childhood

2.- Choose the right option to complete the ideas

a.- Cog has…artificial intelligence

b.- Brooks created insect-like robots with… simple brains

c.- Cog can… behave in different ways

d.- Cyc comes from… encyclopedia

e.- Cyc was created by…Lenat

f.-Cyc’s brain contains…millions of common sense facts

g.- Cyc… will be able to do postgraduate work by 2020

h.- Cyc was created in…1984

Vocabulary

1.1.- Match parts of words.

Microneer
Cyber ligence
Coordi nate
Intel hood
Child tronic
Elec mation
Engi thinker
Infor turbine

1.2.- Complete the sentences with the words above.

a.- The Japanese aredeveloping a microturbine that is the size of a shit button

b.- Hirofumi Miura, a robotics engineer created silicon microinsects that can fly a few centimetres

c.- Cog is learning how tocoordinate the parts of his “body”

d.- A.I. means aritificial intelligence

e.- Cyc has got an electronic brain

f.- People learn common sense facts during childhood

g.- Cog and Cyc are two examplesof the cyberthinker of tomorrow

2.- Find words related to robotics in this word spiral

- Machine, android, brain, sensor, programme, chip, prediction, work, store, button, silicon

Grammar1.- Underline the correct form of the verb

a.- A Japanese firm (creates/created) a minicar as small as a grain of rice.

b.- Silicon microinsects can (flies/fly) a few centimetres

c.- In the...