CHARPTER 1

CHAPTER 1: DR SUSAN CALVIN

Vocabulari:

Injure: Ferir                                   Clusmy: Maldestre

Allow: Permetre                             Whole: Tot

Harm: Dany                                   Sharp: Afilat

Obey: Obeir                                  Reaches: Alcanç                               

As long as such: Sempre i quan.      Afterwords: Més tard.

Sent out: Emetre/ Llançar

Summary:

All begins when a journalist, who is researching the robot’s origin for his newspaper, met in his first interview Dr. Susan Calvin, a woman very cold and unsociable. She was the first person to create a robot with voice and the journalist was interested about that. He starts asking why the necessity to live with robots. Dr. Calvin with a convincing tone said that robots arrive and make things that we can’t do. Besides, she explained that now robots are a perfect version of our and we control them. Susan persist that we control them because of do expeditions for go to Mart or Mercury. And finally concluded, if he wanted to investigate more about the expeditions, the journalist would visit Mr. Powell, a person who of course could help him.

Before reading

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author of the reading "I, Robot" is Isaac Asimov borned in Russia but the most part of his life was in Brooklyn, USA. Person of science beacause he studied chemistry in Columbia University and after became a professor of biochemisty. But not only he liked the science because after he dedicated full-time to be a writter, keeping conection  with the chemistry university at the same time.

This connection between science and letters made Asimov to create a lot of sciencie-fiction books. This interesting arise for he was nine and read for the first time this type of book. But wasn't until he was twenty when his first story was published. And gradually he wrote aproximally a hundred of short stories, some of this novels getting awards, novels as "Foundation" or "I, Robot".

He finally became a famous not only for what was about the books, otherwise his writting is clear and uncomplicated making easy the scientist details how will happen with the story that I will read.

Welcome!

Welcome to my English blog!

 I start this blog explaining in the first entry what I will do. This summer I will read a short story to practice more my English and whenever I read the book I will work about it in this blog. Of all the books that I could choose for read, finally I have decided the story of Issac Asimov: I, Robot. I choose that one because is different than the typical stories of readings books for learning english, is new, modern and for me interesting. 

Well I work with this blog throughout the summer and I hope that will be interesting and entertaining.