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Student Self-Assessment Checklist Student

Name: ________________________

Date: ______________________ Think about how well you are working in your group.

Place a check mark beside the skills you demonstrate in your role.

I listen attentively to others.

I express my thinking clearly and concisely.

I take turns. I encourage participation of all group members.

I show respect for alternative points of view.

I disagree agreeably.

I synthesize information from others.

I analyze ideas of others.

I remember significant information.

I identify issues.

I make connections to prior knowledge and experiences.

Short term lesson plan

Unit of a long term plan Unit 9 Science and technology Lesson plan 102			School:
Date:			Teacher’s name:
Class: 9			Number present:		Number absent:
Lesson title			Project. Robots
Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to		9.S1 provide basic information about themselves and others at sentence level on an increasing range of general topics 9.S3 give an opinion at sentence level on a limited range of general and curricular topics 9.L4 understand the main points of supported extended talk on a range of general and curricular topics 9.R5 deduce meaning from context in short texts on a limited range of familiar general and curricular topics 9.W1 plan, write, edit and proofread work at text level with support on a limited range of general and curricular topics 9.W5 link without support sentences using basic coordinating connectors
Lesson objectives		All learners will be able to: Recognize and use vocabulary about the robots; Identify the meaning of the text about robots; Understand the general writing structure. Most learners will be able to: Select, compile, and synthesize information from the reading passage for an oral presentation; Provide unprepared speech to answer a variety of questions at sentence level and in conversations with some flexibility; Create a project with minimal support. Some learners will be able to: Respond to and discuss the reading using interpretive, evaluative and creative thinking skills and make a project without support.
Planned timings	Teacher activities			Sts activities		Ass-t		Resources
Beginning of the lesson 7 min.	The lesson greeting. Teacher organizes a warm-up activity for a start of the lesson. Learners look at the names of different things which are on the classroom walls. They choose the things they like and go to that place. In small groups they try to give arguments and explain why the thingthey have chosen is the best. Learners are informed about the lesson objectives. Warm up. Free talk about the robots. Where can you see robots and what their functions are. The teacher asks Sts. in pairs to make a list of books or films with robots.(we can assume that a lot of what people know about robots comes from films. This activity gives students a chance to talk about films they have seen with robots in and to discuss whether they believe any aspects of these films may one day become a reality.			Sts respond to greeting Sts answer questions.		Formative ass-t		Student Book p.115
Main Activities 15 min. 12 min	Main part The teacher asks the students to listen to a short text and speak about the robot’s activity. A long time ago, robots belonged to science fiction. Children loved looking at movies with robots. Today, robots are real, and they are helping us. In the future, we will all have robots. They will vacuum the floor, wash the dishes, and perhaps even drive our cars. I even think one day we’ll have robot friends. In Japan today, robot engineers are making robots to help old people and to keep them company. It’s still early days. I’d say we are another 20 to 30 years away from robots being everywhere in our lives. What will happen to us when the world is full of robots? There’ll be no jobs. McDonalds will be full of smiling robots. Maybe one day we won’t be able to tell robots and humans apart. Maybe they’ll take over the world. What do you think about robots? Would you like to have robots as teachers? The teacher asks students to speak about I. Asimov and his books about robots. Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer who wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.  Discussion of the text” Robots”. Ex.1 p.115 In the groups of 4, the students write a short article about robots. They also have to think about the headline of the article. 2 students have to choose one book of I. Asimov and write a blurb of it.			students to listen to a short text and speak about the robot’s activity		Formative ass-t	https://www.listenaminute.com/r/robots.html Pictures A whiteboard Student Book p.115 Writing Worksheet
Ending the lesson 6 min.	Giving the home task: A text of I. Asimov about the future(read) Students express their attitude to the lesson and give self-assessment using the method: “Six thinking hats”: Green: How can you use today's learning in different subjects? Red: How do you feel about your work today? White: What have you leant today? Black: What were the weaknesses of your work? Blue: How much progress have you made in this lesson? (Now I can, I still need to work on, I've improved in, Today I learnt...) Yellow: What did you like about today's lesson? "Six thinking hats"			Sts reflect the lesson		oral

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ACTIVITIES

LISTENING GAP FILL

A long time ago, robots ____________________ fiction. Children loved looking at movies with robots. Today, robots are real, and ____________________. In the future, we will all have robots. They will vacuum the floor, wash the dishes, ____________________ our cars. I even think one day we’ll have robot friends. In Japan today, ____________________ making robots to help old people and to ____________________. It’s still early days. I’d say we are another 20 to 30 years away from robots ____________________ in our lives. What will happen to us when the world is full of robots? There’ll be no jobs. McDonalds will be ____________________. Maybe one day we won’t be able to tell robots and humans apart. Maybe ____________________ world.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

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What do you know about astronauts? How would you describe this profession?
What do astronauts do?
Everyone knows that astronauts work in space. But what do they do out there?

Some astronauts are mission specialists who fly or navigate the space shuttle. In other words, they are pilots. Other astronauts are specialists who work with the equipment that is launched into space, for instance conducting scientific experiments or replacing parts of satellites.

In brief, an astronaut’s tasks divide into three areas: supply, repair and research, not to mention self-care.
Supply

A considerable amount of equipment is orbited in space. However, some are carried into orbit in the payload bay of a space shuttle and launched by its crew. Currently, astronauts work mostly with transport of equipment, new modules, supplies and crews for the international space station.
Repair and maintenance

Sometimes astronauts visit orbiting satellites for maintenance and repair. Often they work using the space shuttle’s robotic arms, but sometimes they pull a satellite into the payload bay so they may work more leisurely. Sometimes they put on their space suits and soar to a satellite that is moving at a speed of seven kilometers a second or more.
Self-care

Weightlessness requires astronauts to spend a considerable amount of time on exercise and self care. Exercise in space is so important that it’s part of the job, a duty that cannot be shirked. Astronauts exercise every day. Space shuttle astronauts, who seldom are in space for more than two weeks at a time, exercise half an hour a day. But astronauts on the space station must exercise two hours a day to stay healthy.

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So astronauts have more than enough to keep themselves busy and seldom have time to be bored on the job. An astronaut with spare time can just gaze out the window…
Adapted from

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2) Read the text and find:
a) What are the areas in which the astronauts’ tasks are divided?
b) Underline what astronauts do in the supply area.
c) What tools do astronauts use to do maintenance in space?
d) Do astronauts exercise? Why?
3) In your opinion, what are the positive and negative points of his job?

DEBATE: ROBOTS vs. HUMANS
Artificial Intelligence (A. I.) and Robots pose some difficult questions. Do you really believe…

1. 
   an artificial brain can learn faster than a human brain?
   
2. 
   robots have emotions?
   
3. 
   robots can be smarter than humans?
   
4. 
   people will be controlled by intelligent machines?
   
5. 
   A. I. can make the world a better place?
   
6. 
   robots can help us create a more pleasant way of life and more free time?
   

ROBOTS – HELP OR PROBLEMS?
Arguments in favour of robots	Arguments against robots
 do the heavy, repetitive work (are very useful on production lines);  do the difficult and dangerous jobs (in space, with bombs, …);  can help those with disabilities to be more independent;  simplify the work;  allow a considerable reduction in costs (don’t get paid);  increase productivity;  don’t eat or sleep;  don’t get bored;  don’t get sick or grow old (don’t die);  don’t have feelings, so, don’t get depressed and don’t create bonds with people, treating everyone equally;  don’t go on strike;  make the world a better place;  can simulate some aspects of human intelligence;  don’t need to go to school, just need to be programmed;  can learn faster than humans;  can be controlled by humans;	 cause unemployment;  make the workplace and the world impersonal;  don’t keep company;  don’t solve problems and make decisions;  aren’t adaptable to circumstances and can’t handle emergency situations;  can get smarter than humans;  can turn against humans and, consequently, control them;  can’t recognise and express emotion (so, will never have true Emotional Intelligence) and, therefore, can’t help people at an emotional level;  can make people get lazy, with no will to learn, study or work;  can make people get dependent on them;

Useful expressions:

❀ Do you really think so?

❀ I agree up to a point, but don’t you think…?

❀ I’m not sure you’re right about…

❀ But surely that can’t be right.

❀ No, I’m sorry but I disagree with you there.

❀ No, I’m afraid I can’t agree with you about that.

❀You can’t be serious!

❀You must be joking!

❀ Like I mentioned / said before…

❀ I’d just like to say…

❀In my opinion… / From my point of view…

Read the text "The Surgeon" and say what makes the end of the story unexpected.
The Surgeon

(After Isaac Asimov)

The surgeon looked up without expression. "Is he ready?"

"He is nervous," said his assistant.

"They always are... Well, it's a serious operation."

"I'll see him in this room," said the surgeon. "Has he made up his mind?"

"Yes. He wants metal; they always do."

The surgeon's face didn't change expression. He stared at his hands. "Sometimes one can talk them out of it."

"Why bother?" said the assistant, indifferently. "If he wants metal, let it be metal."

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"You don't care?"

"Why should I? Both way it’s a medical engineering problem and I'm a medical engineer. Why should I go beyond that?"

"I care. I have to try." The surgeon pushed a small button and the door opened. The patient moved into the room in his motorchair, the nurse stepping along beside him.

"You may go, nurse," said the surgeon, "but wait outside. I will call you." He nodded to the assistant, who left with the nurse, and the door closed behind them. The man in the chair watched them go. He looked worried and uncomfortable. He said, "Will we be starting today?" The surgeon nodded. "This afternoon."

"I understand it will take weeks."

"Not the operation itself. But there are a number of small points to take care of."

"Is it dangerous?" Then, as though trying to sound friendlier, but against his will, he added, "...doctor?"

The surgeon paid no attention to this. He said calmly, "We take our time to make it less dangerous, and we already have all the required equipment. But I must ask you to make a decision. It is possible to sup­ply you with either of two types of cyber-hearts¹ metal or ..."

"Plastic!" said the patient irritably. "Cheap plastic. I don't want that. I've made my choice. I want the metal because it is better."

"It depends on the patient. In my opinion, in your individual case, it is not. And we prefer not to call them plastic. It is a fibrous² cyber-heart. It's made of a polymeric material designed to imitate as closely as possi­ble the human heart you now have in your chest."

"Exactly, and the human heart I now have in my chest is worn out, al­though I am not yet sixty years old. I don't want another one like it, thank you. I want something better."

"We all want something better for you. The fibrous cyber-heart will be better. It has a potential life of centuries."

"But it does wear out. No, I want it to be metallic, doctor. What's the matter with you? Are you afraid I'm making myself into a robot... into a Metallo, as they call them since Metallos became citizens?"

"There is nothing wrong with a Metallo. As you say, they are citizens. But you're not a Metallo. You're a human. Why not stay a human?"

"Because I want the best and that's a metallic heart. And will you be the surgeon in charge? They tell me you're the best."

The surgeon nodded. "Very well. I will do what I can to make the op­eration an easy one."

The door opened and the chair moved the patient out to the waiting nurse.

The medical engineer came in. "Well," he said, "I can't say what hap­pened just by looking at you. What was his decision?"

The surgeon bent over his desk, putting together some records. "What you predicted. He insists on the metallic heart. It has become a real mania with people ever since Metallos became citizens. Men have this strange desire to make Metallos out of themselves because they think that Metallos are physically strong and powerful."

"It isn't one-sided, doc. You don't work with Metallos but I do; so I know. The last two who came in for repairs have asked for fibrous ele­ments... I suppose that someday we shall have Metallos that are a kind of flesh and blood, and humans half made of metal. We have two variet­ies of intellect on Earth now and in the near future we won't be able to tell the difference between them. We'd have the best of both worlds; the advantages of man combined with those of robot."

"You'd get a hybrid," said the surgeon almost angrily. "You'd get something that is not both but neither. I believe in being what one is. I wouldn't change a bit of my own structure for any reason. I am myself; well pleased to be myself; and would not be anything else."

He had finished now and had to prepare for the operation. He placed his strong hands into the heating oven and kept them there until they became red-hot and completely sterilized. Though his speech had been emotional, his voice had never risen, and on its metal face there was, as always, no sign of expression.
See how well you remember the text and choose the right item.

1. The patient had a ... problem.

a) brain b) heart c) eye

2. Before the operation the surgeon wanted to talk to the... . a) nurse b) medical engineer c) patient

3. The surgeon wanted to supply the patient with a ... heart, a) metallic b) fibrous polymeric c) human

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