1、Listening and reading task,Listening,Vacuum cleaner,It can move from room to room cleaning your house. You can programme it so that it cleans when youre away and you can control what its doing from your computer at the office.,Personal robot calledPaPeRo,It understands 650 phrases, speaks more than
2、3,000. It can recognize different people. It can check your email. It can help children do research on the Internet for their homework, talk to them about their day at school and play games.,Tiny helicopter,It will be used to fly into dangerous areas. For example, it can fly into a house thats been
3、destroyed by an earthquake and check if anyones inside.,Walking chair,It helps people who cant walk to go up and down stairs.,Reading task,Three decades of war in Cambodia have left scars in many forms throughout the country. Unfortunately, one of the most lasting legacies of the conflicts continues
4、 to claim new victims daily.,Read this piece of news about landmines.,In most cases, even the soldiers who planted the mines did not record where they were placed. Now, Cambodia has one of the highest rates of physical disability of any countries in the world.,At the current rate of progress, it may
5、 take as many as 100 years to clear all the mines in Cambodia, and the UN estimates that with current technology, it will take nearly 1,100 years to clear all the mines in the world.,This is the situation in Cambodia.,Here and there are the mine signs.,In spite of so many warning signs, there are st
6、ill many victims.,Robots in the fight against landmines.,Pre-reading,1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?2. Who wrote the article?3. What do the three pictures show you?,4. Where is research being done on robots that can find landmines?5. In which two coun
7、tries might the robots be used?,Careful reading,Answer key for Exercise 2:,Introduction: the damage landmines,26,000 people killed or badly injured each year 100 million buried in 60 countries Most victims are innocent people,Suggested answers to Exercise 3:,The problem of landmines,Robots can help
8、find traditional mines,Each year 100,00 removedEach year 2,000,000 buriedDifficult and dangerous to remove,Much safer in the hunt for landminesFaster at finding landminesResearch at Chiba University,Robots can find plastic mines,World opinion turned against landmines in the 19990s,Experimental robots in production To use radar to locate mines To identify types of mines,Agreement in Ottawa, Canada to stop the manufacture and use of landmines Still a lot of work to be done,
