Summary
This lesson combines listening, vocabulary building, and grammar to explore AI's effects on jobs and society. Students will discuss AI's role, analyze expert opinions, and learn to articulate future possibilities. The lesson aims to enhance understanding of AI's evolving influence and improve communication skills on this crucial topic, preparing them for informed discussions about technology's future in work.
Activities
Students begin with a reflective warm-up, discussing personal AI usage, recent news on AI's job impact, and their general sentiments (optimism or concern) towards AI's future developments and societal changes.
Learners will watch a World Economic Forum video featuring the IMF's perspective on AI's global job market impact, tasked with identifying and noting down key potential positive and negative consequences discussed.
A series of vocabulary exercises helps solidify understanding of terms like impact, leverage, disinformation, embrace, and pronounced through contextual guessing, definition matching, odd-oneout tasks, collocations, and gap-fills.
The grammar section focuses on expressing future predictions and possibilities using will, be going to, and modal verbs like could, may, or might, applied through sentence completion exercises related to AI's evolution.
Vocabulary focus
Key terms include pitch, value proposition, engaging, clarity, innovative, and networking. Exercises provide opportunities to use these terms in crafting and delivering pitches.
Grammar focus
The grammar emphasis is on relative clauses (e.g., “I help businesses, which struggle with productivity, streamline operations”). Students learn to incorporate these structures to enhance the depth and specificity of their pitches.
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