In this upper-intermediate ESL lesson, students will learn vocabulary related to technology and regulation, and discuss the pace of AI progress. They also talk about the future with both certainty and probability.
Warm-up:
Students answer a few questions about the topic of the lesson.
Video:
Students watch a video titled “Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: All systems around AI systems must be designed with restrictive rights’ with how AI is sold.” After watching the video, they answer a few questions.
Grammar:
Introduction to talking about the future: certainty and probability.
Exercises:
In the first part of this section of the lesson students replace the words in bold with the given phrases. Next, they rewrite sentences using words in parentheses. In the third exercise, they establish if each prediction expresses certainty or probability. Following, the learners find and correct mistakes in sentences. In the next exercise, the students discuss which predictions they think will come true. Finally, they complete sentences with given words.
Reading:
Learners read a short text and answer a few questions about it.
Discussion:
The students are presented with a hypothetical situation and discuss questions about it.
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