AI Friends & Virtual Influencers
ESL Lesson PlansAI Friends & Virtual Influencers

AI Friends & Virtual Influencers

This interactive 1-hour ESL lesson for pre-intermediate and intermediate learners explores the modern world of AI friends and virtual influencers to build vocabulary, listening comprehension, and critical thinking skills. Students learn and practice new tech-related terms through a fun matching activity, then listen to an article about AI characters like Lil Miquela. Through true-or-false questions and fill-in-the-gap exercises, students deepen their understanding of how virtual influencers work and interact. The lesson also encourages discussion about the pros and cons of AI relationships, helping students develop their speaking and reasoning skills. A final group activity promotes reflection on whether AI could truly become a friend, sparking engaging conversations among students.

Skills

  • Can understand and extract the essential information from short, recorded passages dealing with predictable everyday matters which are delivered slowly and clearly.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Listen to four people talking about making friends with AI. Do you agree or disagree with them? Why?

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Your answer:
2

Match the words to the definitions.

3

Listen to an article about AI influencers. Did you learn anything new?

4

Mark the statements as 'True' or 'False'.

5

Fill in the gaps with the missing words.

6

Think about the pros and cons of AI friends and influencers and continue the lists. Compare your lists with the group. Would you make friends with AI?