Page 16 - Level 1 Additional Skills Book 01-15.cdr

IMPERIAL ENGLISH UK

TASK 4

SPEAKING
a) Work in small groups. Discuss the questions below and try to work out the rest
FAMOUS STORIES
of the story.

1) Do you think Judge Burgess’ death was an accident? Why does it seem suspicious?
2) What reasons could there be for the robot not reporting the death?
3) Do you think Bart Wilson likes robots?
4) What do you think happens next?
5) How do you think the story ends?
b) Read a summary of the story. Were your ideas right? Are you surprised by the
ending?

c) Work with a partner and discuss the questions below.

1) Do you think Judge Burgess deserved to die?
2) Do you think the humans in the story should treat the robots as equals?
3) What other reasons could the robots have for wanting to punish or attack humans?
4) Should Bart Wilson report the crime? How would people react?
5) Do you think the humans in the story are dependent on robots?

TASK 5

GRAMMAR

a) Look at these sentences from the book extract. Put the adjectives back into the
correct places in each sentence.

1) He walked across the desert road. (dusty)

2) Some police officers were standing by the body of a man. (local / dead)

3) He was a man in his fifties. (fat / late)

4) So many robots were in the police force now. (involved)

Look at the Grammar Key in your Course Book.

b) Put the words into the correct order to make the sentences.

1) laptop / He / new / an / expensive /yesterday / bought

2) Elephants / animals / intelligent / large / are / grey

3) long / for / white / She / wore / dress / her / a / wedding / beautiful

4) man / 26 / husband / Australian / talkative / My / year / old / a / is

5) is / horrible / Our / in / office / the / brown / building / old

For further practice on this, see your Grammar Practice Book.

16 PRE-INTERMEDIATE | CEFR LEVEL A2-B1 | IELTS BAND 4.5 - 5.5