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The document summarizes a lesson plan for teaching an English reading class about an article on Stephen Hawking warning that computers will overtake humans within 100 years. [1] The teacher will begin with an activity having students predict what images and the article title are about to engage them and activate prior knowledge. [2] Students will then do a first quick reading of the article to understand the main idea and answer questions before reading again more closely. [3] Comprehension questions and vocabulary matching activities follow to help students understand details and guess word meanings from context.

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Skills Related Task

The document summarizes a lesson plan for teaching an English reading class about an article on Stephen Hawking warning that computers will overtake humans within 100 years. [1] The teacher will begin with an activity having students predict what images and the article title are about to engage them and activate prior knowledge. [2] Students will then do a first quick reading of the article to understand the main idea and answer questions before reading again more closely. [3] Comprehension questions and vocabulary matching activities follow to help students understand details and guess word meanings from context.

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Skills related task Mohamed Osman

“… good reading texts can introduce interesting topics, stimulate discussion, excite imaginative
responses and provide the springboard for well-rounded, fascinating lessons.” (Harmer 2001)

The authentic text I’ve chosen to use is from Techworld.com. It’s a news article titled ‘Stephen
Hawking warns computers will overtake humans within 100 years’. I’ve chosen for the intermediate
class which I will be moving to teach in the third rotation. I believe the students will find the article
interesting and relatable which will make them motivated to read. The article is the right level of
challenge and will expose students to new lexis however the new lexis would not prevent students
from understanding the overall meaning of the text and as indicated by Hammer that ”… If we want
to give students practice in what it is like to tackle authentic reading and listening texts for general
understanding then getting past words they don’t understand is one of the skills they need to
develop” (Harmer 2001)

Lead in – prediction

To set the context and create an interest on the topic I would begin by passing around the main
image used in the article as well as images source from Google. I would encourage the students to
work in pairs and discuss what the images might be about. I would then ask students to predict what
the article title could be. The point of this student centred activity is to activate the students’
schemata. I would not spend too long on it. I would nominate students to share their predictions
with the class, at this stage I would neither confirm nor deny their predictions at this stage.

Reading for gist

Once “Expectations are set up and the active process of reading is ready to begin” (Harmer 2001) I
would provide the students with the article and set a time limit of one to two minutes maximum. I
would instruct students not to focus on the meaning of every word nor read every sentence in detail
but to go over the text and see if their predictions were right and answer the questions in ‘Task 2’
(see appendix). Students would read the article individuals first and then I would pair them up to
discuss their understanding and answers to the questions. By having students not attend to every
detail in the text would help them get a more of a top-down view of what is going on before
plunging into it for details.

Reading for detailed information

The next step is developing reading for details sub skills. In this stage I would provide set of false
/true statements about the text and would instruct them to read the text again and decide whether
the statements are true or false. For the false statements I would encourage students to rewrite
them to make them true. In the firsts stage students would work individually and once they
complete the task I would set them in pairs to discuss the answers. I would then conduct feedback
with the whole class, during this stage I would ask students to share why they have chosen the
answer and to show evidence from the text itself.

Once this stage is complete I would set a task for the students to guess the meaning of some items
of vocabulary from the context, I would do it by means of matching words to their meaning text.
Follow up speaking task

At this stage I would divide the class into smaller groups of three. I would ask them to imagine a
world where robots with superior intelligence have taken over. I would then set them to discuss
firstly the positives of that, each group would come up a list and will share it with the rest of the
class. In the second stage they discuss the negative of it and share their finding, I would then round
it up by asking them to compare the positives with the negatives and share whether they would
prefer a world run by intelligent robots.

Do you think robots will be so perfect in the future that they will become part of the family? Why?

3. Will robots ever have emotions? Will they be able to fall in love, for example?

4. What about people? Will they be able to fall in love with robots?

5. What is the future of robots? How present will they be in our lives?

6. What's your opinion about Artificial Intelligence?

Bibliography
Harmer,J.The Practise of English Language Teaching, 3rdEdition, Longman, 2001
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Appendices

Predictions Task
1) Artificial intelligence (AI) a) famous and respected

2) Wisdom b) a scientist who studies the universe and its origin

3) Potential c) to show a feeling, quality, or ability:

Task 5: Match the words on the left with their meaning on the right.
4) Exhibited d) an area of study concerned with making computers
copy intelligent human behaviour
5) Cosmologist the possibility to develop or achieve something
in the future

6) Coordinate e) Very great

7) Renowned f) the ability to use your knowledge and experience to


make good decisions and judgments

8) Profound g) to make arrangements so that two or more people


or groups of people can work together properly and
well
Task 2: Reading for gist

1. What is the article about?


2. Who will take over humans?
3. Who made this prediction?
4. When and where was the prediction
made?
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Task 3: Reading for details

Read the text again and answer the following


questions with either true or false. Correct the
false statements.

1. Stephen Hawking believes computer will


overtake humans within the next 100
years.
2. Hawking is a renowned biologist and
Cambridge university professor.
3. Professor Nick Borstom doesn’t believe
machines will become super intelligent.
4. AI technology is built on devices we use
every day.
5. More than 200 start ups in Silicon Valley
are working on AI today.
6. Hawking believes scientists and
technologists should make sure AI does
not grow beyond humanity's control.

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Task 5: Speaking.

Imagine a world run by robots with superior


intelligence.

Work with your ground discuss the

 Positives of it.
 Negatives of it.

Do you prefer to live in a world run by robots with


superior intelligence?

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