Mini-Debate on AI Regulation
ESL Lesson PlansMini-Debate on AI Regulation

Mini-Debate on AI Regulation

This engaging ESL lesson plan is designed for B2-level learners, focusing on the hot topic: Should AI development be regulated to prevent job loss? The lesson targets essential skills, including listening, speaking, and reading. Students will watch a video on job risks, read about the potential benefits of AI, and participate in a lively group debate. With structured exercises like unscrambling useful phrases and crafting arguments, this lesson encourages critical thinking and effective communication.

Skills

  • Can follow extended discourse and complex lines of argument, provided the topic is reasonably familiar, and the direction of the argument is signposted by explicit markers.
  • Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting their points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Warm-up: Jobs under threat

Which of the roles below are likely to be affected by Artificial Intelligence? Do you see it as a positive or a negative development?
1. Lawyers 2. Teachers 3. University professors 4. Nurses 5. Jobs in the manufacturing sector 6. Jobs in transportation 7. Telemarketers 8. Preachers
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Which jobs are at risk?

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Potential benefits of AI

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Useful phrases: Agreeing and disagreeing

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Debate: Should AI development be regulated?