Robots

When will we have robots? We already have many kinds of robots! Industries use a variety of
robots and now robots are becoming more common in the home.

The Husqvarna company makes the Auto Mower, a lawn mowing robot. The robot has sensors
which detect where objects are in the yard and it maneuvers around them. The robot can cut the
grass while you relax on the patio with a glass of lemonade! Also, Eureka now makes a robotic
vacuum cleaner. Like the robot lawn mower, the vacuum cleaner automatically detects where the
furniture is and vacuums around it.

Cars are becoming robots now that many cars have GPS (Global
Positioning Systems) on them. A car with a GPS system can give you
directions on how to go somewhere, tell you where the closest gas
station is, and, some day in the future, will drive itself. You will take a
nap or read while the car drives itself to your destination.

We even have robotic pets now. The Sony company makes a robotic
dog named Aibo that can sit, stand, and walk like a regular dog but can
also communicate and take pictures! Aibo understands certain
commands, like a dog does, such as "Sit down", "Stand up", "Turn
right", etc. If you ask Aibo a question such as "How old are you?", its eyes will flash the number of
years old it is. Aibo is also a great guard dog. He can patrol the yard and take pictures with a built
in camera of anything suspicious.

1.- Say if it is true or false and justify your answer.

1. We have many kinds of robots now.
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2. The Auto Mower is a robot that vacuums.
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3. The Auto Mower has sensors that detect where objects are.
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4. Cars with GPS systems can give you directions.
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5. In the future cars will drive themselves automatically.
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6. Aibo is a robotic cat.
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2.- Find a word in the text that means the same as the next word.
- Gauge___________________

3.- Correct the mistakes of the sentences

- You work very hard last week. ____________________________________________________
- Paul didn’t studied for the exam____________________________________________________
- I have work for my uncle._________________________________________________________
- He have given up the tournament.___________________________________________________
- I were playing football in my town. _________________________________________________
- Have you ever eat Chinese food? ____________________________________________________
- Mr Brown already left the office. ____________________________________________________
- She has moved to another city last year. _____________________________________________
- We haven’t been abroad since a year._______________________________________________

4.- Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple
or the Present Perfect
1. John ........................... (not call) me recently.
2. They ........................... (buy) a new car last month.
3. The teacher ........................... (not return) the tests yet.
4. How long ........................... she ........................... (know) about this problem?
5. ........................... you ever ........................... (hear) such an unbelievable story?
6. When I was a child, I ........................... (live) in England for two years.
7. He ........................... (buy) me a beautiful gift for my birthday.
8. I am so excited to have a dog. I ......................................... (always / want) one.
5.- Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or Past Perfect of the
verbs in brackets.
- We ________ (know) her address because she _______ (tell) us.
- The children _________ (not eat) for days so they ___________ (be) extremely hungry.
- Everyone ___________ (hug) each other after they __________ (finish) their exams.
- My students ________ (raise) some money after they ________ (see) a documentary on TV about
Africa.
- When I _________ (ask) her to help me, she ________ (agree).
- When we ___________ (get) home my wife realized she __________ (lose) her purse.
- After I _________ (buy) my new computer, I discovered that I__________ (not have) enough
money.
6.- Choose the right option.
7.- Use the correct form of used to
1. I _____________________ walk to school every morning.
2. ______ you __________________ go on holidays to the beach?
3. I ______________________ like garlic in my food, but I love it now.
4. We ____________________ eat lots of sugar, but we’re on a diet now.
5. She ____________________ come to our parties, but she’s started coming recently.
6. _______ he _________________ drink so much? I can’t remember seeing him like that before.
7. I __________________ believe in ghosts, but then I went to a haunted castle and I saw things I
can’t explain.
8. She ____________________ come to our parties, but she’s started coming recently.

8.- Complete the following sentences with the corresponding past tense
1. When I (arrive)___________home last night, I discovered that Jane (prepare) ____________a
beautiful candlelight dinner.
2. When I (turn) ____________the radio on yesterday, I (hear) ____________a song that was
popular when I was in high school. I (hear, not) ____________the song in years, and it (bring)
____________back some great memories.
3. When Jack (enter) ____________the room, I (recognize, not) ____________him because he
(lose) ____________so much weight and (grow) ____________a beard. He looked totally different!
4. The Maya established a very advanced civilization in the jungles of the Yucatan; however, their
culture (disappear, virtually) __________________by the time Europeans first (arrive)
____________in the New World.
5. I (visit) ____________so many beautiful places since I (come) ____________to Utah. Before
moving here, I (hear, never) ____________of Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches, or Canyonlands.

9.- Translate the following words.

Lonely Parecer
Suddenly perderse
Dishonest estafador
Step enfermo
Confident poco fiable
Share atún
Sci-fi ganarle a alguien
Quite asisitir
Proud sentimientos
Poison cosas
Waste salvaje