Doing chores V4

Listen to the text and choose the correct answers:

1. The machine will NOT                       [teach other machines., cost $2,000., make the beds., prepare vegetables.] .

2. What is true about the mechanical housemaid?                                         [It would not be able to lay the table., It would be able to cook., It would have mechanical arms., It would have one leg.]

Choose the description with the household appliances.

You clean with it. It’s a ___________.

Read the text below. Choose the correct title:

                    [Mobile webcams, Entertaining robots, Robotic vacuums]

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.

                    [Mobile webcams, Robotic vacuums, Entertaining robots]

Of course, you can’t buy friends at a store. But there are robots that can entertain you in your daily duties. There are robots that can follow you around and entertain. There are robots that can wake you up and run away and hide from you — more like wheeled alarm clocks. There are also PC-based robots that you can assemble and programme as you wish. There are some other robots that could be regarded as household robots. Many of them are in development stage and many that can’t really do something useful.