Technology and the future

Apr 17, 2024Apr 17, 2024

LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

learn language for speculation to talk about the future,
talk about robots at home,
work on listening comprehension skills,
practise language for speculation on a topic of your choice: smart lenses, robot chefs or ChatGPT.

In the first lesson, students learn phrases to speculate about the future. Depending on your choice of the second lesson, students further practise the phrases while talking about smart lenses, robot chefs or ChatGPT.

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Lesson 1

Teach students language for speculation

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Time for bed, Fred! – Robots at home

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Students practise listening comprehension, learn language for speculation (e.g. I’m sure that…, It’s likely that…, We might…) and talk about robots and homes of the future. They also learn some vocabulary from the video.

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Lesson 2

Let students practise language for speculation to talk about the future

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All the data right before your eyes

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Students predict details about a technology, talk about gadgets and superpowers and watch two short videos about smart contact lenses. Encourage them to use language for speculation when doing ex. 5 and 6 (slides 9 and 11).

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Can robots be chefs?

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Students read an article about a pizza vending machine at home, talk about cooking and automation and learn vocabulary from the article. They also discuss what technology they would invest in. Encourage students to use language for speculation in ex. 4 (slide 12).

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What can AI do for you?

Technology

Students talk about tasks people and AI can do, learn useful vocabulary, and watch a video about ChatGPT. Encourage students to use the target language in ex. 11 (slides 24-25).

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