Doing chores V3

Listen to the text and choose the correct answers:

1. What is the main idea of the story?                                          [Women like to work about the house., mech. housemaid will be within 10 years., Machines cannot cook., An English professor wants a car.]

2. The professor doesn’t want to teach the machine to cook because                                       [housewives do it better., the machine then will cost too much., housewives like cooking., the food won’t taste good.]

Choose the description with the household appliances.

You heat things very quickly in it. It’s a _______ .

Read the text below. Choose the correct title:

So what exactly household robots are and what do they do? Of course, not everything in a household can be done by robots, at least not yet. Still, there are some chores which are better to trust to machines. 1) B Robot-cleaners are the most known household robots to general public. It’s so because they can perform one of the most boring chores — vacuuming. There are many vacuuming robots in a wide price range.

                    [Mobile webcams, Robotic vacuums, Entertaining robots]

Robot-cleaners are the most known household robots to general public. It’s so because they can perform one of the most boring chores — vacuuming. There are many vacuuming robots in a wide price range. Although vacuuming is the most known application, robots are not limited to it. There are robots that can sweep floors such as the iRobot Dirt Dog and robots that can wash floors like iRobot Scooba as well.

                    [Mobile webcams, Robotic vacuums, Entertaining robots]

Anyone has something they have to watch for. For example a dog — are you sure that he doesn’t sit on a couch when you are not at home? Well... Now you can log on your robot using the Internet and shout to your dog to get off the couch. They can have more capabilities also — like playing mp3’s and other handy things when you are at home.