Activities for Saturday, August 17th, 2024
Activities Chec Tim
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1.- Read the article
2.- Circle any words you don’t know and find the meaning in the
dictionary
3.- Answer according to your investigation
4.- Match the sentences
5.- Answer with your own opinion
6.- Make affirmative or negative sentences with your opinion
1.- Read thea article
THE ARTICLE
Computers 'to match man by 2029'
A leading US scientist has predicted that computers will be as intelligent
as humans by 2029. Futurologist Dr Ray Kurzweil told the American
Association for the Advancement of Science that in the near future,
machine intelligence will overtake the power of the human brain. He said
that within two decades computers will be able to think quicker than
humans. Dr Kurzweil painted a picture of us having tiny robots called
nanobots implanted in our brain to boost our intelligence and health. He
told reporters that these microscopic nanobots would work with our brains
to make us think faster and give us more powerful memories. Kurzweil
explained that we are already “a human machine civilization” and that the
upcoming technology “will be a further extension of that."
Dr Kurzweil was one of 18 top intellectuals, He was an innovator in various
fields of computing, including the technology behind CDs. He predicts the
pace of new inventions will increase greatly from now, saying: "…the next
half century will see 32 times more technical progress than the past half
century." This means scenes from science fiction movies, like Blade
Runner, The Terminator and I Robot, will become more and more a part of
our everyday lives.
2.- Circle any words you don’t know and find the meaning in the dictionary
3.- According with your own investigation decide about for which of the things
below you would put nanobots into your body. Rank them in order of most
important to you.
a. _____ to live to be 125
b. _____ to play an instrument like a concert performer
c. _____ to speak a new language fluently
d. _____ to play computer games like the world’s best player
e. _____ to be happy all day, every day
f. _____ to look very young for all of your life
3.- Match the sentences
Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one
combination is possible):
1. computers will be as intelligent a. part of our everyday
lives
2 overtake the power b. 18 top intellectuals
3. tiny robots c. powerful memories
4. make us think faster and give us more d. as humans
5. technology will be a further e. called nanobots
6. one of f. challenges
7. identify our greatest technological g. speech recognition
8. a very impressive h. extension of that
9. He also pioneered automatic i. of the human brain
10. more and more a j. background in science
4.- Answer with your own opinion
1. How will the world change if computers and robots became more intelligent
than humans?
2. What invention will you like to see?
3. Will all this amazing technology and innovation solve all of the world’s
problems?
5.- Make affirmative or negative sentences based on your own opinion:
Example:
In the future robots will reduce carbon emissions
In the future we won’t have access to clean water
a. Make cheap solar energy
b. Reduce carbon emissions
c. Provide access to clean
water
d. Understand the en tire brain
e. Prevent nuclear terrorism
f. Make cyberspace safe
g. Improve our cities
h. Make better medicines
i. Advance personalized
learning
