Unit 7: Discovery and Invention

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Watch and listen: Watch and understand a video about the ASIMO robot

Reading skills: Scan to predict content

Academic writing skills: Edit for common errors

Writing task: Write an advantage–disadvantage essay

UNLOCK YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Work with a partner. Discuss the question below.

1. What do you think will happen in the world of science and technology in the next ten years?

2. Match the new technologies (1–3) to the defi nitions (a–c).

1) robotics

2) 3D printing

3) biomimicry

a. the study of biology in order to copy nature and solve human problems

b. making plastic objects by printing designs on a computer

c. the science of making and using robots