LESSON BTS CG 1 ADVANCED CLASSES FRIDAY THE 21 ST OF NOVEMBER

 

LESSON FRIDAY THE 21 ST OF NOVEMBER  ADVANCED CLASSES

 

WORD OF THE DAY :

I would make an educated guess

To deal with = tackle =focus on

To highlight = to underline = to point at sth = to underscore ( souligner)

 

	Right	Wrong
1.    The Chinese manufacturing sector is relying on more and more robots	x
2.    Chinese manufacturers are investing in robots because they are cheap= economical = not expensive = low cost		x
3.    Chinese manufacturers are investing in robots because workers’s salaries are rising	x
4.    Chinese manufacturers are investing in robots because more and more workers do not want to work in factories	x
5.    Chinese workforce want jobs that are unskilled		x
6.    Chinese workers have no ambition		x

 

 

STEP 6 ARE YOU AFRAID OF ROBOTS ?  + evaluation grid

PARTNER A listen to the video and tell your partner what you have understood

"My darkest thoughts are that humans will eventually be replaced by robots.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WJ-w2MtmZI

 

Useful vocabulary

(to) have a lot of potential

What the future holds ( ce que le futur nous réserve)

Be sanitised = be impersonal

Scary = frightening

(to) take over something = (to) take control of sth

Be comforting = be reassuring

 

PARTNER B listen to the video and tell your partner what you have understood

Will robots take our jobs and if so which ones?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skG3okhx2TU

 

Useful vocabulary :

(to) take over your job =(to) take your job

A study ( une étude)

(to) pervade our lives = (to) invade our lives

(to) displace = (to) replace

White collar workers = people working in offices

Blue collar workers = people working in factories

A cashier ( un caissier)

The pitch = the speech = the ability to talk well

 

STEP 7 THE PROS AND CONS

It is a positive thing FOR THE INDUSTRY BECAUSE ON THE LONG RUN IT is MORE ECONOMICal = cheaper

Still ROBOTS  CAN DO HUMAN CHORES

On the other hand ROBOTS CAN DO MISTAKES

On the flip side WE CAN’T RELY ON ROBOTS BECAUSE THEY CAN BECOME OUR MASTERS and take the upper hand

Nevertheless ( néanmoins)  ROBOTS INCREASE THE PRODUCTIVITY AND WORK FASTER AND THEY DO NOT BREAK down  

Moreover ( de plus ) ROBOTS CAN EVOLVE QUICKLY

BUT ACCORDING TO THE STUDY  JOBS WILL BE REDUNDANT = useless

: COMPUTERIZED which is risky = harmful = detrimental for us

Yet ( pourtant) ROBOTS TAKE CARE of  REPETITIVE TASKS

SINCE WE ARE DISCOVERING NEW FIELDS =domains  THEY CAN BE USEFUL

On the other hand THEY COULD BE HACKED

Nonetheless ( néanmoins) THEY COULD BE A GREAT HELP FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE = old people

And yet ( et pourtant = have you thought about the fact that THEY COULD REBEL AGAINST US IN THE END

 

 

MY ADDICTION 

TOPIC 3 AUTOMATION : the pros and cons

The pros

1. It increases productivity
2. It improves accuracy and the quality of the product
3. It saves costs for the company on labour and workers’ benefits and management
4. It increases safety in certain jobs
5. It improves flexibility as you can scale it back / reduce the number of machine working on periods of crisis

The cons

1. It creates unemployment
2. It is expensive to implement
3. It can be dirupted by technical glitches/ problems
4. It reduces human interactions and thus clients can resent the experience

 

 HOMEWORK 

Mock exam monday the  24 th of november 

- revisez methodologie / survival kit 

- révisez l introduction 

 révisez la partie 4 du survival kit 

revisez les pour et contre de la robotisation