Prime Time 4, Coursebook

An interview with a robotics professor To find out more about how intelligent machines work, Ally talks to Professor Sarah Holmlund, a robotics professor. Listening: Fixing a date for an interview a) Listen to the telephone conversation. b) Now decide if the statements are true or false. Tick the correct boxes. T F 1. Ally asked Professor Holmlund if she could write an article on robots.  2. Ally told Professor Holmlund that she was doing a podcast. 3. Ally explained to Professor Holmlund that she had found her on the internet. 4. Ally said that she wanted to come to Professor Holmlund’s office. 5. Professor Holmlund asked Ally if she was free on Monday morning. 6. Professor Holmlund asked Ally where they would do the interview. 7. Ally answered that she didn’t have time at 10 a.m. 8. Professor Holmlund asked Ally to show her a vacuum cleaning robot. Listening: How intelligent machines work a) Listen to the interview. b) Now decide who said what. Put an A for Ally and an H for Professor Holmlund next to the sentences. 78uk3y 4 1.7 358av3 5 1.8 8jf92g 1. I can hear you very well. 2. I’m so happy that you agreed to skype with me. 3. I am writing a post for my blog. 4. I’m doing some research on intelligent machines. 5. I’m very happy to talk to you. 6. I don’t design vacuum cleaning robots myself. 7. A robot is not intelligent like a human. 8. But it has sensors, little cameras, that tell the robot where the walls are. 9. It was a pleasure. c) Right after the interview Ally told her friend Peggy about it. Turn the above sentences into reported speech with the help of the grammar box. Professor Holmlund said that she could hear me very well. I told her that I … 26 3 Unit Intelligent machines twenty-six Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv