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Smart Tech, AI & Industry 4.0

Read a digitalisation roadmap, practise smart-tech vocabulary and future forms.

B1–B2 · IT English
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Ex A – Digitalisation RoadmapReading comprehension
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Ex B – Smart Tech VocabularyGap-fill with word bank
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Ex C – Future FormsGrammar: will / going to / likely to
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AReading: The CTO’s Three-Year Roadmap
Read the summary of the town hall meeting, then choose the correct answer for each question.

At last week's town hall, our CTO presented the digitalisation roadmap for the next three years.

From January, invoices will be processed automatically by a document-recognition system. The accounting team is not going to lose jobs, the CTO stressed — employees will spend less time on data entry and more time checking unusual cases. A chatbot is going to answer simple HR questions from next spring; complex requests will still be handled by real people.

On the factory floor, IoT sensors are being installed on all machines. The data will be used to predict failures before they happen — a technique known as predictive maintenance. The CTO expects that downtime is likely to fall by 30 per cent. Finally, she reminded everyone that AI systems are only as good as their data: a working group will review our data quality every quarter.

1. From January, invoices .
2. According to the CTO, accounting employees will .
3. Complex HR requests will be handled by .
4. The data from the IoT sensors will be used to .
5. Downtime is expected to fall by .
6. The working group will review every quarter.
BVocabulary: AI and Industry 4.0 Terms
Complete each sentence with the correct term. Two words in the bank are not needed.
Word Bank automation IoT machine learning chatbot Industry 4.0 predictive maintenance augmented reality digitalization SLA RAID
1. Replacing manual tasks with machines or software is called .
2. The connects everyday devices and sensors to the internet.
3. In , systems learn patterns from data instead of following fixed rules.
4. A answers simple customer questions in a chat window.
5. The term describes the fourth industrial revolution.
6. Repairing machines before they break down is called .
7. overlays digital information onto the real world.
CGrammar: Talking About Technological Change
Choose the correct future form for each prediction or plan.
1. Invoices processed automatically from January.
2. The chatbot to answer HR questions from next spring.
3. Experts believe that downtime fall by 30 per cent.
4. Look at those error rates — the server crash soon!
5. I think AI change our jobs rather than replace them.
6. The sensors installed on all machines by December.
7. We probably need new data-quality rules.
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