After text activity

I. Reading Exercises:

Exercise 1. Read and memorize using a dictionary:

Hydraulic, pneumatic, properly, piston movements, built-in balance system, bipedal locomotion, infrared signals, inhospitable areas, geological samples, humidity level, piston, remote control

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

1) What did your brain have to figure out?

2) What can create more stable robot walkers?

3) How do mobile robots stand in for people?

Exercise 3. Match the left part with the right:

1.Things get a big trickier	a) good balance.
2. Wheels and tracks can also work	b) when you send a robot out into the world.
3.Six-legged insects have exceptionally	c) robots to transport medications.
4.Hospitals may use	d) on rougher terrain if they are big enough.

Exercise 4.Open brackets choosing the right words:

Mobile robots also (work/move) in homes and businesses. Hospitals may use robots (to transport/to transfer) medications. Some museums use robots (to patrol/to save) their galleries at night, monitoring air quality and humidity levels. Several companies have (developed/invented) robotic vacuum.

The speaking module

II. Speaking Exercises:

Exercise 1. Describe piston, bipedal locomotion, infrared, remote control, pneumatic using the suggested words and expressions as in example:

piston

device, mechanical, plunging, thrusting, motion

bipedal locomotion

ability, power, to move, two feet

infrared

having, wavelengths, employing, longer, light, shorter, radio waves, lying, visible spectrum, outside, red end

remote control

a device, can, to control, a machine, apparatus, a distance

pneumatic

pertaining, separated, air, gas

Exercise 2. Ask questions to the given answers:

1) Question: ___________________________________?

Answer: The first obstacle is to give the robot a working locomotion system.

2)Question:_____________________________?

Answer: The pistons attach to different leg segments just like muscles attach to different bones.

3)Question:_____________________________?

Answer: Some robots are only partially controlled by remote.

The writing module

III. Writing exercises:

Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the suggested words: by, to, with, through, or, for, such as, inside.

Some mobile robots are controlled ____ remote -- a human tells them what to do and when ___ do it. The remote control might communicate _____ the robot ______an attached wire, or using radio ____ infrared signals. Remote robots, often called puppet robots, are useful ___ exploring dangerous ___ inaccessible environments, _____ the deep sea or _______ a volcano. Some robots are only partially controlled __ remote.

Exercise 2. Fill in the table with words and expressions from the text

	system	ability	place
Many mobile robots have
The remote control might
the operator might direct the robot
Mobile robots also work

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Exercise 3. Compose a story on one of the topics (up to 100 words):

“Legged robots”

“Remote robots”

“ The use of mobile robots