The open source AI revolution

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – explore the open source AI revolution through DeepSeek’s impact while using advanced technical language and industry concepts;
• – practice advanced language skills through gap-fill conversations, word rearrangement, phrase identification, and reading comprehension activities;
• – watch a video about AI stocks plunging as China’s DeepSeek sends shock waves through Wall Street and analyze AI development approaches.

In this C2 level lesson plan, students explore the open source AI revolution through DeepSeek’s impact, using advanced technical language and industry concepts.

Warm-up 

Students read statements and decide which AI development approach they describe.

Video 

Students watch an informative video titled “AI stocks plunge as China’s DeepSeek sends shock wave through Wall Street.” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise connecting sentence beginnings with appropriate endings based on the video content.

Exercises 

Language skills are reinforced through various activities. Students fill gaps in a conversation with the provided phrases/words. In the second exercise, they rearrange letters to create words. Lastly, they find phrases in a text that correspond to a list of given definitions.

Reading 

Students read a text about the AI open source revolution and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.

Discussion 

For each pair of AI development characteristics, students choose which one is more significant in the open source revolution.