Vocabulary

• ice caps - an area of thick ice that permanently covers the North and South Poles
• forever last -a phrase meaning forever, used especially in stories
• displaced person - someone who has been forced to leave their country because of war or cruel treatment etc
• prosperity - when people have money and everything that is needed for a good life
• genuine- a genuine feeling, desire etc is one that you really feel, not one you pretend to feel [= sincere]
• fibre- the thin pieces of flesh that form the nerves or muscles in your body
• with every fibre of your being- if you feel something with every fibre of your being, you feel it very strongly
• to torture smb - to deliberately hurt someone in order to force them to give you information, to punish them, or to be cruel
• masses of something- a large amount of something
• sneak- to go somewhere secretly and quietly in order to avoid being seen or heard [= creep] sneak in/out/away etc
• sneak a look/glance-to look at something quickly and secretly, especially something that you are not supposed to see
• to challenge -to invite someone to compete or fight against you, or to try to win something; challenge somebody to something
• to extremes- if someone does something to extremes, they do it to a point beyond what is normal or acceptable; take/carry something to extremes
• creepy- making you feel nervous and slightly frightened
• DAS - Damage Avoidence System

While watching find the answers to the following questions.

1. What was the reason the robotics and adroids were created? What did this creation give to the humanity?
2. Was Monica for adopting an android child?
3. What were the words Monica attered to make an android function? Why these words were chosen?
4. What has Monica presented to David before going out? What was the present like? Does it symbolise something?
5. Why was Teddy dissatisfied when Monica named it ‘a toy’?
6. What Monica’s reaction was like when Davis picked up the phone? What did he do with it?
7. What was the first thing David could remember? Why do you think this was a…?
8. What book did Monica read for her son before sleep. Why David loved the book? What has surprised him?
9. What was written on the drawings which Monica has found one day?
10. What did Monica say David when leaving him in the forest?

Cope with the translation

1. ..How did that make you feel? Angry, shocked?
I don’t understand.
What did I do to your feelings?
You did it to my hand.
2. The artificial being is the reality of perfect simula articulated in speech and not like in human response, and even in pain memory response
3. We have no reason to congratulate ourselves.

4. Inside he is like the rest, a hundred miles of fibre, but outsise he looks so real.
5. Darling, we will come unfashionably, unreasonably late!
6. Why don’t you look like one?

7. Can you break it? I’d better not.

After watching

1. Why do people name the robots ‘sensory toys’?
2. What definition of ‘love’ was given by the robot?
3. Explain the meaning this statement: ‘Did God create Adam to love him?’
4. Can an android possess such feeling as jealousy?
5. Why couldn’t David break the toy car?
6. Why did Monica say that only machas are safe? What was she sorry for?

For you to think

1. Is fifty years a long time for an ordinary person to be alive? Does a human being live enough to get ready with everything s/he wants to accomplish as long as s/he exists?