Language 3. Practice for Essays

Task 1

1. Use some of the information below to write an essay entitled “Unusual Tasks for Robots”. Your essay should have at least four paragraphs.

• analyze soil and fertilize it when necessary
• decide when a plant is ripe for picking
• guide a blind person on the street
• hand things to a person in a wheelchair
• help in dangerous situations
• help on the farm
• help paralyzed people to walk again
• help the handicapped
• help the police defuse terrorist bombs
• inspect the interior of a nuclear reactor
• locate weeds and kill them
• search for survivors inside a burning building.

Task 2

Write two paragraphs for an essay . The beginning and ending are given below.

“While most people agree that a woman has the right to work as a heavy-machine operator and a man to become a midwife, is this supposed open-mindedness being put into practice? There is plenty of evidence to suggest that workers are still being judged by their gender, and not by their skills, and this is a situation which needs to be dealt with.”

“To sum up, gender should not be an issue in any workplace, since a powerfully-built female is just as capable of hard manual labour as a kind and gentle male is of child-care. The only obstacles are those which exist in our own minds; as the American therapist Dr. S.F. Perls once said, “We have to lose our minds to come to our senses.”