- •Contents
- •U nit 1: Artificial Intelligence
- •Discuss the following questions.
- •Work in small groups. Read the definitions of artificial intelligence outlined in different textbooks.
- •Match the definitions with these categories:
- •What is artificial intelligence? Give your own definition.
- •Look at the statements below. Which one do you agree with more? Tell your partner.
- •Underline the parts of the article which helped you decide on the missing paragraphs, then compare with a partner.
- •Complete the sentences.
- •Think of the other heading to the text. Artificial Intelligence
- •Look through the list of words and phrases and check if you know their Ukrainian equivalents. Use the Mini-Dictionary (unit 1) if necessary.
- •Explain the meaning of the words and phrases.
- •Match the adjectives to the nouns to form collocations from the text.
- •Now, use the collocations to complete the sentences. Use the remaining collocations to make up sentences of your own.
- •Match the words and phrases (1-10) from the text with their definitions (a-j).
- •Fill the cells in the table with the words derived from the given ones.
- •Fill in the word derived from the word in bold.
- •Rearrange the letters in bold to make words that fit into the gaps.
- •Work in small groups. Match 1-6 with a-f to make sentences.
- •Fill in the blanks with to wherever necessary.
- •Translate the sentences into English. Use the following constructions: "Objective Infinitive Construction" and "For-to-Infinitive Construction".
- •Transform the sentences. Use the Subjective Infinitive Construction. Translate these sentences.
- •Read and translate the suggested sentences. Underline the Infinitive Constructions.
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Correct the mistakes.
- •Translate into Ukrainian.
- •Translate into English.
- •Discuss.
- •Listen and decide whether the facts from the text are true or false.
- •Complete the sentences.
- •Match the collocations with the translation. Use these collocations to make up sentences connected with artificial intelligence.
- •Read the article "Swarm Intelligence" (Further Reading, Unit 1). Write a short summary of the text (50-60 words). Follow these steps:
- •Unit 2: Virtually Human
- •According to the text, are these statements true or false?
- •What do the underlined words in the text refer to?
- •Virtually human
- •Look through the list of words and phrases and check if you know their Ukrainian equivalents. Use the Mini-Dictionary (unit 2) if necessary.
- •Explain the meaning of the words and phrases.
- •Match the words in the left-hand column with the words in the right-hand column to make phrases from the text. Use each word only once. Translate the collocations into Ukrainian.
- •Cross the odd word out.
- •Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
- •Now, use the words above to complete the sentences. Use the remaining words to make up sentences of your own.
- •Fill in the gaps with appropriate words from the list below.
- •Fill in the word derived from the word in bold.
- •Fill the cells in the table with the words derived from the given ones.
- •Rearrange the letters in bold to make words that fit into the gaps.
- •Work in small groups. Match 1-6 with a-f to make sentences.
- •Fill in the correct preposition or adverb.
- •Fill in the blanks with to wherever necessary.
- •Transform the sentences. Use the Subjective Infinitive Construction. Translate these sentences.
- •Translate the sentences into English. Use the following constructions: "Objective Infinitive Construction", "For-to-Infinitive Construction" and "Subjective Infinitive Construction".
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Correct the mistakes.
- •Translate into Ukrainian.
- •Edit the Ukrainian translation (b).
- •U nit 3: Robot making industry
- •Skim the text (Parts 1 and 2) and tell who Ron Diftler, Russ Tedrake, Roderic Grupen are and what they say about robots, robotics and their work. Get a grip. Part 1.
- •Look through the list of words and phrases and check if you know their Ukrainian equivalents. Use the Mini-Dictionary (Unit 3) if necessary.
- •Explain the meaning of the following phrases.
- •Cross the odd word out.
- •Match the words in the left-hand column with the words in the right-hand column to make phrases from the text. You may use some words several times. Translate the collocations into Ukrainian.
- •Match the words with their translation.
- •Now, use the words above to complete the sentences. Use the remaining words to make up sentences of your own.
- •Match the words with their definitions.
- •Fill in the gaps with appropriate words from the list below.
- •Fill the cells in the table with the words derived from the given ones.
- •Fill in the words in the correct form.
- •Rearrange the letters in bold to make words that fit into the gaps.
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Work in small groups. Match 1-6 with a-f to make sentences.
- •Look through Mini-Grammar section. Explain what Gerund is using the verbs given below in sentences about your groupmates. Use the given verbs in any tense adding verbs in Gerund.
- •Underline the Gerund in the given function. Translate into Ukrainian.
- •Translate the following paragraphs into English using the Gerund.
- •Correct the mistakes.
- •Translate into English. Pay attention to the use of the Infinitive.
- •Think of other words that can be added to such a glossary.
- •Work in pairs. Student a: you are Eduardo Torres-Jara, a developer of Obrero. Student b: You are Aaron Edsinger, one of developers of Domo. Exchange information about your achievements.
- •Work in small groups. You have invented a new robot. Make a short presentation of your robot.
- •Discuss the following quotations in small groups.
- •Unit 4: Smart materials
- •Match the words/phrases (1-6) with the pictures (a-f).
- •Discuss the following questions.
- •Underline the stressed sound in each word as in the example. Practise reading.
- •Read the text "Smart materials". Six sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from sentences a-f the one which fits each gap (1-6).
- •Read the text and answer the questions.
- •Think of the other heading to the text. Smart materials
- •Look through the list of words and phrases and check if you know their Ukrainian equivalents. Use the Mini-Dictionary (Unit 4) if necessary.
- •Explain the meaning of the words and phrases.
- •Match the words in the left-hand column with the words in the right-hand column to make phrases from the text. Use each word only once. Translate the collocations into Ukrainian.
- •Arrange the following words according to
- •Fill the cells in the table with the words derived from the given ones.
- •Match the words and phrases (1-10) from the text with their definitions (a-j).
- •Fill in the word derived from the word in bold.
- •Match the list of the materials with the categories of the materials. More than one material can be in one category.
- •Fill in the gaps with appropriate words from the list below.
- •Rearrange the letters in bold to make words that fit into the gaps.
- •Work in small groups. Match 1-6 with a-f to make sentences.
- •Fill in the gaps with the correct adjective from the list.
- •Form the comparative and superlative forms of the following adjectives. Then find the nouns to these adjectives from the text and make up the sentences using the phrases.
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Fill in a, an, the where necessary.
- •Fill in the gaps with upon, by (2), in, of (3).
- •Translate into English. Міняти зимову ґуму на літню більше не доведеться
- •Edit the Ukrainian translation (b).
- •Work in pairs. You are a reporter interviewing a famous physicist. Ask as many questions about smart materials as you can.
- •You are going to prepare a report at the conference "Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering". Find information and prepare reports on one of the topics:
- •Listen and decide whether the facts from the text are true or false.
- •Complete the sentences.
- •Unit 5: Smart house
- •Work in pairs. Check if your partner knows Ukrainian equivalents of the words from the list of the English ones.
- •Match the word with its definition. Then give your definition to the words.
- •Find synonyms in the right-hand column to the words in the left-hand column. Translate the words into Ukrainian. If you find any difference in synonyms, explain it.
- •Match the words with their translation.
- •Read the information and think how you would call the “intelligent house”. You can offer any variants to make clear the content.
- •It is interesting to know
- •Cross the odd word out.
- •Now, use the words above to complete the sentences. Mind that some of the words are extra. Use the remaining words to make up sentences of your own.
- •Fill the cells in the table with the words derived from the given ones.
- •Interpret into English using the words and expressions from the text and exercises.
- •Match the parts of sentences and answer the questions given below.
- •Find the right answer to the questions. What can you add to the given answer?
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Correct the mistakes. Mind that every sentence has got two mistakes.
- •Living in a place of his own
- •Unit 6: Internet Communication
- •How the Internet Became a Big Boy
- •Look through the list of words and phrases and check if you know their Ukrainian equivalents. Use the Mini-Dictionary (Unit 6) if necessary.
- •Match the words in the left-hand column with the words in the right-hand column to make phrases from the text. Use each word only once. Translate the collocations into Ukrainian.
- •Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations.
- •Match the words with their translation.
- •Cross the odd word out.
- •Match the words with their definitions.
- •Now, use the words above to complete the sentences. Use the remaining words to make up sentences of your own.
- •Fill in the gaps with appropriate words from the list below.
- •Fill the cells in the table with the words derived from the given ones.
- •Fill in the word derived from the word in bold.
- •Arrange the following words in the correct order to make sentences. The first word in each sentence has been underlined.
- •Work in small groups. Match 1-6 with a-f to make sentences.
- •Rearrange the letters in bold to make words that fit into the gaps.
- •Fill in the correct preposition.
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Underline the Participles. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
- •Translate the following word combinations into Ukrainian.
- •Fill in the Participle II.
- •Correct the mistakes.
- •Translate into Ukrainian.
- •You are a social network analyst. Conduct a survey on social networks in Ukraine and be ready with the report. Discuss your results with your classmates.
- •Do you agree with the following statements?
- •Discuss the following questions. Give reasons for your answers.
- •What is Netiquette? Have you ever experienced bad netiquette? Tell your partner what happened.
- •What do you use the Internet for? Rank these points and share your rankings with your partner.
- •Listen to the text “Internet Addiction – a Growing Problem”. Define whether the sentences given below are true or false.
- •Match the following synonyms from the text.
- •Match the following words and phrases (1-10) with (a-j) from the text.
- •Complete this chart to find out if you are an internet addict. Show answers to your partner(s).
- •Read the article "This is Your Space" (Further Reading, unit 4, Text a). Write a summary of the text (130-150 words).
- •Write a list of advantages and disadvantages of using the Internet. Use information from the text “Internet: Advantages and Disadvantages of Using It” (Further Reading, unit 4, Text b).
- •Choose a website and think about the questions below:
- •Computer Graphics
- •Look through the list of words and phrases and check if you know their Ukrainian equivalents. Use the Mini-Dictionary (Unit 7) if necessary.
- •Match the words in the left-hand column with the words in the right-hand column to make phrases from the text.
- •Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases.
- •Match the words with their translation.
- •Fill the cells in the table with the words derived from the given ones.
- •Match the words with their definitions.
- •Use the words from exercise 14 to complete the sentences.
- •Fill in the gaps with appropriate words from the list below.
- •Fill in the correct preposition.
- •Fill in the word derived from the word in bold.
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Work in small groups. Match 1-6 with a-f to make sentences.
- •Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences. There is one mistake in each sentence.
- •Translate into Ukrainian.
- •Underline the Participle in the functions of attribute and adverbial modifier. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
- •Underline the correct answer.
- •Work in pairs. Student a chooses a task from the list (1-6). Student b chooses the most appropriate graphics software (a-f) for the task. Swap roles.
- •Match the following synonyms from the text.
- •Match the following phrases (1-10) with (a-j) from the text.
- •Further Reading Unit 1 Swarm Intelligence
- •Swarm Intelligence of Ants
- •Swarm Intelligence of Honey Bees
- •Applications of Swarm Intelligence
- •Turing Machines
- •Intelligent Agents
- •In search of a versatile virtual person
- •Unit 3 Get a Grip. Part 2.
- •Unit 4 Characteristics of smart materials and systems
- •Unit 5 The Smart Home – a Vision of the Future
- •This is Your Space
- •Internet: Advantages and Disadvantages of Using It
- •The advantages of Internet
- •The disadvantages of Internet
- •Basic Types of Animation
- •Graphic Models and Engines
- •Mini-Dictionary Unit 1 Artificial Intelligence
- •Virtually Human
- •Unit 3 Robot-making Industry
- •Unit 4 Smart Materials
- •Unit 5 Smart House
- •Internet Communication
- •Unit 7 Computer Graphics and Animation
- •Mini-Grammar The Infinitive Forms of the Infinitive
- •Passive
- •The syntactical functions of the infinitive in the sentense
- •The bare infinitive is used:
- •Constractions with the infinitive
- •The Gerund
- •The functions of the Gerund in the sentence
- •Infinitive vs. Gerund
- •Some verbs may take either Infinitive or Gerund form.
- •The Participle
- •Forms of the Participle
- •The Participle can be used:
- •The Functions of the Participle
- •The Participial Constructions
- •Problem-Solving Unit 1 Artificial Intelligence Quiz
- •Unit 2 Are these statements true or false?
- •Unit 3 How much do you know about robots? Work in pairs. Choose the correct answer.
- •Unit 4 smart materials quiz
- •Unit 6 How well do you know internet slang? Select the most common definition for each term.
- •Unit 7 Graphic Design Quiz
- •Scripts Unit 1 Artificial and Natural Intelligence
- •Unit 3 Mars rovers set to scale heights
- •Unit 4 Piezoelectric materials
- •Unit 5 Something from the History of Home Automation
- •Internet Addiction – a Growing Problem
- •Unit 7 New computer mirrors viewer’s mood
- •References
Unit 5 The Smart Home – a Vision of the Future
I always visualized the perfect smart home as a balance between my wants and my needs. I need: a house with glass panes that darken at a thought; robots that clean room by room without user control; a tiny HD television inside my shower; sensors in place of door locks; a quiet room with an elegant tree in the middle and indoors ventilation system that eliminates the need for asthma pumps. I want: a constant rotation of elegant Playboy models to create video-game themed waffles for me at a whim. I may not get what I want, but my needs can be fulfilled by some of these incredible smart home gadgets on offer.
Our homes are filled with dust particles that stick in our throat and lungs, causing us to cough or develop respiratory problems. No smart home is complete without an air purifier. Ionic air purifiers let you breathe easier by drawing out dust, dirt and various contaminants from the air. Smart home systems can be routed to control any sort of air filtration device and in my opinion, one is all you will ever need.
Ironing and vacuuming are two chores that make me sick. I don’t want to do it. Smart home technology may not have incorporated a self-ironing pair of trousers, but a robot vacuum they do have! Years of smart home development has been sunk into these little magical disks, intelligent vacuums that map rooms, inhale our dirt and then neatly dock themselves into a charging port for later use. Throw your hands into the air and shout, “yeah, I want one”. Do it now.
I would like to get a sweet slice of smart home innovation that combines the blackest magic arts with highly advanced technology. “Dumb”-LCD’s are used to create a pane of glass that has two states. Dark, or light – the LCD blackens inside the windows accordingly and from here you can use a dimmer switch to select your desired window pane visibility. This incredible window to the future!
For each new smart home tech being invented, another of my needs is being fulfilled. In five to ten years, our smart homes will become a sleek encapsulation of current technology.
Unit 6
Text A
This is Your Space
IF THE web was once an enormous library, it is now a vast conversation. Transmitting information from one person to another has never been easier. Everyone can participate. Young people now communicate more through social networking websites than through email. Instead of keeping diaries, they keep blogs; instead of photo albums, they have Flickr.
While older adults go online to find information, the younger crowd go online to live. The boundaries between private and public and between offline and online are blurring, and there is a widening generation gap between adolescents growing up with social technology and adults who find it foreign and unsettling. Welcome to the MySpace generation.
It all happened remarkably quickly. The first social networking websites were aimed at providing online forums where friends could connect. Today it is the face of the internet. Social networking websites have evolved from something to visit in your spare time to an integral part of daily life that many today cannot imagine living without.
What does it all involve? On a typical networking site like MySpace, you create an individual profile detailing your age, location, whether you are single or in a relationship, plus your general interests, favourite music, movies and books. You might upload photographs of yourself and write daily journal entries. You build up a set of online friends, each of whom will have their own set of friends, and so on. On Friendster, when you view someone's profile the website shows you how you are linked to each other: Bob is a friend of Jane who is a friend of Mark who is your friend. Through varying degrees of separation you are soon connected with hundreds, thousands, even millions of people. Users can communicate with each other in many ways. On MySpace many people post messages on a "bulletin board" that is automatically sent to everyone in their network, or they can post a personalised comment on someone's profile, which is displayed for everyone to read. For one-on-one conversation, they can send direct messages through an internal email system, or chat in real time via instant messaging.
Another kind of online social networking environment is the so-called blogosphere. Blogs are web pages where individuals regularly post their personal views, like a personal journal or, depending on the blogger, a newspaper column. For teens, the most popular place to blog is a site called LiveJournal, where people keep online diaries for others to read.
Blogging extends well beyond teen diaries, however, according to a website called Technorati, which monitors the blogosphere. It says it is currently tracking 51.3 million blogs worldwide, and claims that 75,000 new blogs are created every day-that's almost one per second.
Online social networking, it seems, is penetrating all areas of life and all age groups, even if it is most prevalent among the under-25s. So with people spending so much time communicating online, how is this changing real-life social behaviour? Recent studies have drawn contradictory conclusions. Some claim that individuals who socialise online become more social, extrovert and happy, while others claim that such people draw away from their family and friends, break social ties and become isolated and depressed. So which is it?
The distinction between "real life" and online is no longer clear-cut. The original social websites, such as chatrooms and online games, drew in people who wanted to escape their daily lives, if momentarily, to interact with strangers or to play a fantasy role. They used anonymous screen names and were often represented by avatars or cartoon-like characters. This has changed. Users of social-networking websites are no longer anonymous--they have real names, jobs and relationships. They are represented by photographs. Young people using sites like MySpace switch easily from their real world to their virtual one, and the people they interact with are largely the same.
Social networking is not just about friends and recreation--it's also starting to affect professional life. Take science. Scientists have used interactive sites such as newsgroups and online bulletin boards since the early 1990s, but the new generation of networking tools is taking that further. Many scientists now use blogs, and the number of science blogs is on the rise. Science blogs serve a dual purpose. First, they connect scientists to other scientists, serving as modern-day intellectual salons. Formal scientific papers are now even beginning to cite blogs as references. Second, they connect scientists to the general public, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how science progresses.
Text B