Unit 7artificial Intelligence
Unit 7artificial Intelligence
Unit 7artificial Intelligence
3. - Ask Ss: What have you learnt today? What can you do now?
Consolidatio - Summarize the main points of the lesson. T <--> Ss
n Expected answers:
2 minutes + I can use: Sentence stress
The active and passive causatives
4. - T asks Ss to do exercises again at home.
Homework - Prepare for the next lesson. T <--> Ss
1 minute - Complete Exercises in workbook.
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Date of preparation: February 4th Date of signing: February 6th
Distributive period: 64 Date of teaching:
Unit 7 artificial intelligence
Lesson 3 Reading
A. Aims and Objectives:
- To teach Ss to scan a text for specific information in an article in an article about artificial
intelligence application
- To teach Ss new vocabulary by completing true false task.
- To develop their reading skill through choosing the main idea for each paragraph.
- To learn new vocabulary by finding words or expressions with the definitions given.
B. Preparations:
- Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers, lesson plan and cassette.
- Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
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Time/Stag Activities Interactio
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1. Warm - T informs the class of the lesson objective: Talking about the
up risks of artificial intelligence based on the related news items. T <--> Ss
4
minutes
2. New Talking about the risks of artificial intelligence
lesson Activity 1: Work in pairs. Discuss the following
questions. Pair work
10 Picture a. Do you know the name of this person?
minutes Picture b. What do you think this image illustrates?
T has Ss look at the pictures and say what they know about these
images, has them brainstorm their ideas in pairs, writes the most
interesting ideas on the board and highlight the ones that answer
the questions
NOTES
- Picture a is Professor (Prof.) Stephen Hawking. One of his books T <--> Ss
A Brief History of Time was an international best seller. In 1963,
Prof. Hawking contracted a life-threatening disease and was given
two years to live, however he went on to become a brilliant
researcher and a ground-breaking (making new discoveries; using
new methods) cosmologist (nhà vũ trụ học), in spite of being
wheelchair-bound and depending on a computerised voice system
for communication. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of
Lucasian Professor at Cambridge*, the chair previously held by
people such as Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage. Professor
Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the
CBE* in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member
of the United States’ National Academy of Sciences. Stephen
Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical
6 minutes physicists since Albert Einstein.
Activity 2: Read and complete the following news Pair work
item.
- T asks Ss to read the text and guess the words that can be used to
fill in each gap.
- T has Ss compare their answers in pairs.
- T checks answers as a class.
Key:
1. efforts T <--> Ss
2. threat
3. technology
4. communicate
5. consequences
6. destruction
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7. evolution Pair work
minutes Activity 3: Complete the conversation using the
information in 2 and practise it.
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to read the news item, complete the
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conversation, and then practise it, encourages Ss to add their own
ideas to the conversation.
- T sets a time limit for Ss to do the activity, then invites a few
pairs to role play the conversation.
Key:
1. Who interviewed him
2. the threat of creating thinking machines and the development Ss <--> Ss
of full artificial intelligence
3. it can lead to the destruction of humanity
4. their slow bioloical evolution. Creating intelligence machines
that could match or surpass humans could lead to the
10 destruction of people Pair work
minutes Activity 4: Read the second news item. Make a
similar conversation. Practise it with a partner.
- T asks Ss to read the news item individually first, checks their
comprehension and help with the pronunciation of any names.
- T has Ss complete the conversation with information from the
news item, encourages them to write the completed answers on a
piece of paper.
- T has Ss compare their answers in pairs and agree on the best
ones before they practise the conversation. Ss <--> Ss
- T asks a few pairs to role play the conversation.
Nam: Did you read (1) …?
Mai: No, I didn’t. Who has signed (2) …?
Nam: 1,000 people from (3) … .
Mai: What does the letter call for?
Nam: It calls for (4) … .
Mai: Why have they called for the ban?
Nam: Because (5) … .
Suggested answers:
1. about the open letter singed by many famous people
2. the letter
3. the worlds of technology, space travel, computing and
mathematics
4. a ban on offensive autonomous weapons
they are afraid that autonomous killing machines could easily fall
into the hands of the wrong people, and be used for destroying
countries, and even the world
3. - Summarize what they have learnt by asking Ss some questions:
Consolidatio What have you learnt today? What can you do now? T <--> Ss
n
2 minutes
4.Homewo - Ask students to learn by heart the expressions.
rk - Prepare for the next lesson. T <--> Ss
1 minute
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Date of preparation: February 11th Date of signing: February 13th
Distributive period: 66 Date of signing:
Unit 7 artificial intelligence
Lesson 5 Listening
A. Aims and Objectives:
- To develop Ss’ skill of listening to for specific information in a conversation about Ray
Kurzweil’s predictions about the future of A.I.
- To help Ss understand general ideas and specific details to answer comprehension questions.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
+ Listen and do the tasks.
+ Develop the listening skills for specific details.
+ Identify specific information through true false task and question answering
B. Preparations:
- Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers and cassette.
- Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stag Activities Interactio
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- Inform the class of the lesson objectives: listening for specific
1. Lead-in information in a conversation about Ray Kurzweil’s predictions
5 about the future of A.I. T <--> Ss
minutes
2. New The future of A.I.
lesson Task 1: Match each word in column A with its
meaning in column B. Pair work
10 - The aim of this activity is to provide Ss with the key vocabulary
minutes that will help them to understand the conversation they are going
to listen to.
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to match the words and phrases with
their meanings. T <--> Ss
- T checks answers as a class.
Key: 1.c 2.d 3.a 4.f 5.b 6.e
Task 2: Listen to the conversation between Nam
10 and Mai. Decide whether the following statements
minutes are true (T), false (F), or not given (NG) and tick
the correct box.
- This activity focuses on listening for specific information. T tells Group work
Ss that they are going to listen to a conversation between Nam and
Mai. Ss have to decide if the sentences provided are true (T), false
(F), or not given (NG).
- T asks Ss to read the sentences and underline the key words
when they are listening. T <--> Ss
- T plays the recording twice: the first time all the way through,
and the second time pausing at appropriate places for Ss to tick the
correct boxes.
- T has Ss compare their answers in pairs.
- T checks answers as a class.
Key: 1. NG 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T 6. T 7. T
Task 3: Listen again. Answer the following
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10 questions.
minutes - This activity focuses on listening for specific information and
answering comprehension questions. Individually
- T tells Ss to read through the questions and underline the key
words, asks them to pay attention to these words when they listen.
- T plays the recording without pausing, has Ss answer the
questions individually and then compare their answers in pairs.
- T checks answers as a class.
Suggested answers: T <--> Ss
1. It is about artificial intelligence.
2. He is an author, computer scientist, inventor, and futurist.
3. He’s very talented.
4. They will think quicker than humans.
5. He called them nanrobots.
6. Because she thinks of the tasks of the scientists: careful
developing A. I. programs while also detecting any
malfunctions and preventing cyber-attacks.
Task 4: Work in groups to get more information
7 minutes about Ray Kurzweil’s ideas and report to the class.
This activity is a follow-up activity which enables Ss to do some
research on Ray Kurzweil. If there is not enough time, assign the
activity as homework and have Ss report their research findings in
the next lesson.
Resource for ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
3. - Ask Ss to consolidate the main contents.
Consolidatio - Ask Ss: What have you learnt today? T <--> Ss
n What can you do now?
2 minutes
4.
Homework - Prepare for the next lesson. T <--> Ss
1 minute
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- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
+ Writing an essay about the advantages and disadvantages of intelligent machines.
resources.
+ Develop the writing skills in general. Build up vocabulary supported for writing.
B. Preparations:
- Teacher: Handouts, textbook, lesson plan and pieces of papers.
- Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stag Activities Interactio
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1. Check The lesson objective: Writing an essay about the advantages and
up disadvantages of intelligent machines. resources. T <--> Ss
5
minutes
2. New Advantages and disadvantages of intelligent
lesson machines
Task 1: Put the following phrases about intelligent Pair work
14 robots in the appropriate columns.
minutes - The aim of this activity is to provide Ss with some useful ideas
that they can use to describe the advantages and disadvantages of
intelligent machines.
- T asks Ss to read the sentences carefully and put them in the T <--> Ss
correct columns.
Key:
Advantages: 2, 3, 6
Disadvantages: 1, 4, 5
8 minutes Task 2: Read and combine the sentence halves.
- This activity provides more ideas for the writing task. It also Pair work
helps Ss to form coherent and well-structured sentences. &
- T asks Ss to read and match the sentence halves individually, Individually
then has them compare their answers in pairs.
- T checks answers as a class.
Key: 1.d 2.g 3.e 4.f 5.c 6.a 7.b
Task 3: Write an essay of about 220-260 words to
discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
intelligent robots in industries and medicine. T <--> Ss
- The aim of this activity is to develop Ss’ writing skills
- T asks Ss to study the suggested plan and prompts, and write their
drafts individually.
- T asks them to compare their writing in pairs and obtain peer
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feedback. T encourages them to make revisions when reworking and
minutes finalising their drafts.
- T Collects some final drafts and give feedback.
Helpful ideas:
1. Introduction
- robots are widely used in the food industry and medicine
- they have advantages and disadvantages
2. Body T <--> Ss
- advantages: fewer human workers, errors, and defects
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- disadvantages: power failure, malfunction, hackers
3. Conclusion
- help humans improve their lives
- a threat to humans or not?
Suggested answer:
A. I. robots are widely used in areas such as the food industry and
medicine. Obviously, they bring advantages as well as disadantages.
The advantages of intelligent robots are countless. Robotic machines are
countless. Robotic machines can replace the human workforce in
industrial assembly lines because they cannot only complete tasks faster
than humans, but also make fewer errors. Furthermore, unlike humans,
they take no breaks. In modern manufacturing plants, one out of every
ten thousand workers is a robot. That is the reason why robots are so
widely used in the automobile and electronics factories.
In hospitals, A. I. robots can operate on patients, and help doctors to
discover damaged organs in patients. They also help experts to do
research on any serious side effects caused by the interactions of
different medications on patients that can lead to complications in
treatment.
The disadvantages of A. I. are undeniable. Robots and other robotic
machines are designed and programmed by humans. Therefore, they can
be attacked by malware or viruses or disabled due to power failure. In
such cases, the computer systems will crash and A. I. devices will
become useless machines. Another disadvantage is that the computer
operating systems could be taken control of by hackers, causing misuse
of robotic devices. This could potentially be dangerous to human lives.
In conclusion, robots benefit humanity because the aim of their creation
is replace people in stressful and dangerous jobs, and make their lives
better. But relying on them completely is dangerous, because so much
can go wrong with them. In the end, the advantages outweigh the
disadvantages.
3. - Ask Ss to consolidate the main contents.
Consolidatio - Ask Ss to complete the writing at home and collect T <--> Ss
n - Ask Ss: What have you learnt today?
2 minutes What can you do now?
4.Homewo - Write the text again at home.
rk - Prepare for the next lesson. T <--> Ss
1 minute
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A. Aims and Objectives:
1. Language focus
- To help Ss learn about people’s attitudes towards artificial intelligence in some developed
countries.
2. Skills
- To promote Ss to develop their communication skills and cultural understanding
- To help Ss develop the skill of working in pairs and groups
3. Attitudes
- To encourage Ss to work harder
- To provide Ss some motivation
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
+ Understand and communicate about communication skills and cultural understanding
B. Preparations:
- Teacher: Handouts, textbook, lesson plan and pieces of papers.
- Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stag Activities Interactio
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1. Warm - Inform the class of the lesson objectives: Further skill
up development T <--> Ss
5
minutes
2. New 1. Communication:
lesson Artificial intelligence in science-fiction films
Activity 1: Listen to a conversation between Linh Pair work
18 and Nam. Circle the correct letters to complete the
minutes sentences.
- The aim of this activity is to provide further listening practice of
the topic of artificial intelligence in science-fiction films.
- T tells Ss that they are going to listen to a conversation between
Linh and Nam about artificial intelligence in science-fiction films.
- T asks Ss to read the statements and guess the answers before T <--> Ss
they listen to the recording, plays the recording twice for Ss to do
the activity, gives brief explanations of how films are rated. (Ref.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_Am
erica_film_rating_system)
- T asks Ss to compare their answers in pairs.
- T checks answers as a class.
Key: .1B 2.C 3.C 4.B 5.B Group work
Activity 2: Discuss and recommend an interesting
film about A. I.
- This follow-up activity provides Ss with further speaking
practice after the listening activity.
- T tells Ss to discuss the questions in groups. T can also suggest T <--> Ss
some social media sites on the Internet where Ss can do some
research or watch science-fiction (sci-fi) films about the rise of
intelligent machines (Zing TV, YouTube, PhimMoi.net, etc.)
- T asks some pairs to present their recommendations to the class.
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minutes People’s attitudes towards intelligent
machines
Activity 1: Read a text about people’s attitudes
towards intelligent machines. Answer the Individually
questions that follow.
- T informs Ss of the objective of the activity: enriching Ss’
knowledge by reading about the different attitudes of people in
developed countries towards intelligent machines.
- T has Ss brainstorm what they know about popular domestic
robots in use today, then asks them to give their opinions about
these automated machines, writes Ss’ opinions on the board and
ask them to compare theirs with those expressed by the people in
the reading text.
- T asks Ss to read the questions and underline the key words T <--> Ss
before scanning the text for answers.
- T tells them to compare their answers in pairs.
- T checks answers as a class.
Key:
1. To help robot designers and developers to visualise / envision
the roadmap for their future development.
2. They focus on the domestic use of robots.
3. A lot of people think they are small domestic machines that can
be controlled. A few want robots to be friends that can speak
and communicate with them.
4. People don’t want robots to llok after children or animals.
5. Because they fear that malfunctioning robots could be harmful
and dangerous, and humans might lose control over them.
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