Enseignants robots

Tâche de préparation : Associez les définitions avec le vocabulaire.

• e

• a takeover

• c

• to adapt

• d

• to underestimate

• b

• to diagnose

• f

• empathy

Lisez le texte suivant : Office workers can use software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best. Task 1 Les phrases sont-elles vraies ou fausses ? 1. Most jobs seem as if they can be done by robots or computers.

• True

• False

Read the following text: Office workers can use software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best. Task 1 Are the sentences true or false? 2. Robots are always better at diagnosing illness than doctors.

• True

• False

Many experts agree robots will replace teachers by 2027.

• True

• False

Are the sentences true or false? 4. One advantage of robot teachers is that they don’t need to rest.

• True

• False

Read the following text: Office workers can use software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best. Task 1 Are the sentences true or false? 5. Robot assistants could help teachers by marking homework.

• True

• False

Read the following text: Office workers can use software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best. Task 1 Are the sentences true or false? 6. Some teachers use robots to reduce their time answering emails and marking homework.

• True

• False

Read the following text: Office workers can use software to do things like organize and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best.

Task 2 Choose the best answer.

• a. will replace people even if we don’t like the idea.

• b. are more capable than people and it’s true.

• c. can do less than people but it’s not always true.

Read the following text: Office workers can use software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best. Task 2 Choose the best answer. 2. Anthony Seldon thinks teachers in the future will …

• help robots in class.

• teach knowledge to students.

• no longer exist.

Read the following text: Office workers can use software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars. Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best. Task 2 Choose the best answer. 3. Robots will probably never …

• have human understanding of emotions.

• be a popular choice for teachers.

• be intelligent enough to work in education.