Could AI take over the world?

In this C1 ESL lesson, students will assess the long-term risks of artificial intelligence and debate its future using advanced language.

Warm-up:

Students look at a few statements and guess which ones are true.

Video:

Students watch a video titled ‘This is not a hoax’: Tech ethicist Tristan Harris warns AI takeover ‘no longer a hypothetical’” After watching the video, they answer a few questions.

Exercises:

The students come up with synonyms for words in bold in a text. In the following exercise, they replace parts of sentences with words given in a box. After that, the learners put words in brackets into the correct form to complete a number of sentences. In the fourth and fifth exercises, they complete sentences with the correct idioms or phrasal verbs from a box. In the sixth exercise, the students complete sentences to form common collocations. Lastly, they rewrite sentences using words in capitals so that it means the same as the first one.

Reading:

Learners read a short text and answer a few questions about it.

Discussion:

The students discuss a number of questions about the topic of the lesson.