| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- talk about AI and social media;
- work on advanced grammar revision;
- learn and practise collocations related to social media activity.
This Flipped lesson focuses on advanced grammar revision, in particular grammatical aspects: perfect, continuous, and perfect continuous. While working on grammar, students also have a chance to watch a video about AI influencers, learn useful collocations and discuss the topic of artificial intelligence replacing humans in the media.
This is a Flipped Classroom lesson plan. In a nutshell, it means that the first part of the lesson needs to be done by students at home. Learn more about flipped classroom and how we implement it in these lesson plans in our post.
PRE-CLASS ACTIVITIES
At home, students revise advanced grammar by matching aspects (perfect, continuous, perfect continuous) with sentences that exemplify them. Then, students analyze more sentences. First, they answer questions about them (e.g. The team ______ a record number of goals this season: 76 and counting! – Which is more important for the speaker: the number of goals of the action of scoring them?). After that, students complete the gaps with correct verb forms. In the last activity in this part of the lesson, students decide if the verb forms in sentences are correct and correct them if necessary.
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
Apart from advanced grammar revision, this part of the lesson focuses on the topic of AI influencers. First, students look at social media platforms and decide what might make the accounts on them popular. Then, they work with grammar and choose the correct verb forms. After that, students choose three sentences, complete them with their ideas and share details. Students also work with vocabulary and complete the gaps in sentences with words to create collocations (e.g. gain credibility, tailor the content, etc.). You can also make students practise the collocations more by asking them some questions. After that, students watch a video about AI influencers and tick the sentences that are mentioned. After the video, they read opinions (e.g. I don’t think the topic of AI influencers is significant enough to be featured in the news.) and respond to them. Finally, students have more advanced grammar revision: they read texts about AI and complete them with correct verb forms. After that, they discuss the questions about the texts.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students complete the gaps with the verbs in brackets in the correct forms and react to two comments. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
WORKSHEETS
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Hi! I liked this lesson a lot, my students got into the topic and it promoted a lot of discussion. I’d just say that on slide 11-13 the options are 1,1,1 which makes it a little confusing and the answers seem to come up in a strange order – the concept checking question answers first then the multiple choice. Perhaps you could change this? Thanks!
Thanks, Bruce!
The questions are answered first to help students decide which answers (1, 2 or 3) are correct. I would say the questions are scaffolding that helps students understand what aspect should be used in each sentence.
And sorry about the numbering issue – it’s fixed now.
Great lesson. Maybe a few questions to generate more discussion but I found it quite successful.
Thanks!