L14 –upper-intermediate, Com Class 15 AI: friend or foe?

Aim: help students understand and learn how to write an opinion essay using linkers and passive voice
Sub aim: reading
STAGE AND AIM DESCRIPTION FORMS OF TIMING
(What I’m doing and why) WORK (min)

Warmer+ h/w check What was the topic of our lesson last time? Let’s OC (nominate) 20:05
Expressing opinion have a look at it again and check what we 20:15
remember.
ppt quiz+ hw check Nominate students to open the picture and do the (10)
task. See if they’ve done their h/w and mention it
Regrouping 1 (stripes)
Lead-in Let’s watch a video in which Will Smith is trying 20:15
video with Will Smith online dating. Stop at 00:28. 20:21
Is it gonna be successful? PW-OC
Let’s watch till the end and check. (5-6)
FB: Was your idea right? PW-OC
Reading What’s your take on artificial intelligence? (WB) PW 20:21
Now we’re gonna read the essay on the same topic. 20:36
WB: essay – a short piece of writing on a particular
subject (12-15)
ppt reading pre-teach However, I’d like to discuss some words before OC
that.
I’ll leave them for you while you’re reading an
essay – Com Class 15, task 2b
Please, read and compare your opinion with the IW-PW
author’s – 4 min.
FB: Are your opinions the same? OC
Passive voice presentation Task 3a Look at the highlighted parts of the text. OC 20:36
What do we call this structure? Passive voice 20:56
Ppt passive Discuss: why do we use passive? PW-OC
What’s the form? Which part is unchangeable? OC
Which part shows the tense we need? (18-20)
Knowing that, WS task 1 (Pr simple+ cont: together) IW-PW-OC
[while checking write the forms on WB]

CoU Realia/ transformation/ substitution DRILLING OC (nominate)

Youtube: I watch one Youtube channel every week.
It’s watched – some channels – are watched – past-
negative-question
Instagram: She films and posts videos every day.
Videos’re filmed and posted. – right now – Videos-
are being filmed and posted. – One video – is being
posted – We/ our class – is being filmed – past –
was being filmed – future – will be filmed – will be
posted - ?? – will it be posted on Instagram?
Would you like to be posted? Do you like being
posted? Do you like posting yourselves?
Phone/T-shirt: I bought it a year ago – It was
bought – result – It has been bought – before I left it
in a café – it had been bought – iPhone 11 – must be
bought – you recommend – should be bought
Mr. Penguin: I’m hugging him – He – He is being
hugged – every day – He is hugged – kiss – He is
kissed – use in class – is used in class – today – is
being used in class – result – has been used in class
Written practice Task 4a IW-PW-CB-OC 20:56
21:06
(10)
Regrouping 2 (vocab cards)
 Writing Now let’s go back to the essay and look at its PW-OC 21:06
structure-task 5a. 21:21
I would like you to find the topic sentence which
has the main idea in each paragraph (DEMO with
paragraph 1) OC (12-15)
ppt opinion essay What are the supporting ideas for each main idea? PW-OC
How would you name the paragraph? – check with OC
the ppt. Slide 2 elicit
Linking words Talking about linking words, let’s remember or 21:21
Presentation learn some new to make our colloquial and written 21:33
speech even more beautiful and advanced
WS task 3 – check with ppt, slides 4-5/ drilling IW-PW-OC (10-12)
FLEXI (h/w) Linking words WS task 4 IW-PW-OC 10-12
practice
Generating ideas for writing Now we’re gonna prepare for writing an opinion 21:33
essay ourselves. 21:43
Where do we need these essays? TOEFL/IELTS
music +h/o a robot Task 7: divide the topics (per table) (10)
Let’s imagine that this robot is our essay. The head
is our intro, the main part – our advantages and
disadvantages and the feet – the conclusion. I
would you to concentrate now on the body of your
robot first. Think of the reason and an example for
your main idea. Work individually – 5 min. IW – GW- OC
Guess what your homework is?
Giving HW