Task 1

1.        Critical Cartoons

A.    Warm Up

Work with a partner or in small groups. Discuss the questions below.

1.      How many electronic devices have you used in the past 24 hours? List them.

Answer  :  We used at least 9 electronic devices, they are:

1)      Smartphone

2)      Television

3)      Laptop

4)      Rice cooker

5)      Fan

6)      Lamp

7)      Dispenser

8)      Air conditioner

9)      Projector

2.      What activities do robots do today? What other things would you like them to do?

Answer  :  For today, robots can washing clothes, cleaning house, with vacuum cleaner, help us printing our assignment. It would be great if robots could accompany us shopping and help us to carry our items.

3.      Are there certain things we should always do for ourselves? What? Why?

Answer  :  I think we should clean our home for ourselves, because if not do it by ourselves, we will be lazy people, and always need robot’s help in any work.

2.        Core Vocabulary

A.    Scanning and skimming

1.      Find and underline the keywords in the text. The first one is done for you. Try to guess their meanings.

Keywords	In Line	Meanings
adopt	4	to legally take another person’s child into your own family and take care of him or her as your own child
aid	3	help, support
career	11	work, job, profession
code	16	computer program, password
doubt	15	hesitant, be wary, uncertain, anxious
effort	7	exertion, attempt
force	6	power, energy
oppose	5	defied orders, be against, disagree with
potential	9, 14	prospect
serve	2, 8	dish out, present, cater

2.      Read the statements below. Which best summarizes the text? Circle A, B, or C.

Answer  :  B. In future, robots will help us in the home and might also be considered family members.

Task 2

READING SKILL

A. Pre-reading question

1. in what ways will robots make our lives better in the future? in what ways will they make our lives worse?

• i think in the future, the robots can treat many ilness like minimize the mistake in surgical operation or unvestigate the ilness more specificly
• the robots also make our live worse with making humans lazy because the human will suspended with robots to do their personal activity like excercing, eating, take a bath, etc

 2. what kinds of robots would you like to see?

• i really want to see a humanoid robots that can help me to manage my house like cleaning all my stuf, protecting my house from robbe, etc
• in teh future, i want a robot that give me a lot of money freely
• in the future, robots i wanted see that robots could bring to spaceship
• in the future, robots i wanted to see that robot could help still young

B. Reading

paragraph 1. line 1-3

paragraph 2, line 12

paragraph 3, line 21 and 22

C.  identifying topic and main idea

1. which of the following best describes the topic of the text? c. robots in the home
2. which of the following best describes the main idea of the text? a. robots will improve our lives in many ways

E. identifying opinions

     b. it is clear that we live happier and healtheir live because of modern technology.

• because, it's not clear that modern technology just give a good impact or us. everything will have a advantage or disadvantage. beside make our live happier ang healtheir. it can also make human lazier, don't like socializing, etc.

Going beyond the text

1. in the future, i like if robots being police officer that plated in every corner of the traffic because it can reduce the traffic violators and manage traffic well.  (police officer)
2. in the future, i like if robots being airline pilot because let me no more pilots sleepy or drunk  (airline pilot)
3. in the future, i like if robots being doctor because to help in the surgation operation to be more perfect  (doctor)
4. in the future, i like if robots being store clerk because so the shop keeper no corruption (store clerk)
5. in the future, i don't like if robots can cook because human need to feed theirselfes to servive  (cook)
6. in the future, i don't like if robots being singer because its movements can be monotonous and rigid  (singer)
7. in the future, i like if robots being taxi driver because it does not make tired to drive and reduce the an eating of human
8. in the future, i don't like if robots being teacher because we can't ask if their a problem in lesson.