LESSON PLANS
LEVEL: C1.2
GROUPS: A, B, C
DATE: May 27th,
28th
CHECKING ACTIVITIES FROM PREVIOUS CLASS:
CONVERSATION (oral coproduction)
Deadline: May 28th, 12 noon.
VOCABULARY:
Answer key to page 146, activity 2.
1 peril 6
menace
2 threat 7
risk
3 hazard 8
danger
4 menace 9
risk
5
threat 10 danger
LISTENING:
Answer key to page 146, activity 7
1 kids addicted at eight years old, 40% of world
population online
2 Students have lost their ability to construct an
essay and just cut and paste, basically engaging in plagiarism.
3 He is one himself. They are people who have grown up
with the Internet.
4 His main concern is with young people ‘oversharing’
and the danger of online profiles causing problems for young people in the
future.
5 He’d arrest anyone caught looking at banned
websites.
6 It would require a huge online policing presence,
and most offenders are probably pretty harmless.
7 He’d make an example of one or two people to put
others off.
8 The
possibility of ending up involved in a legal dispute about appropriate
punishments.
Answer key to page
147, activity 9.
1 ’s, set to get 6
verge
2 ’s to work 7
chances
3 ’m due to stop 8
likelihood
4 are likely to get
9 odds
5 bound
to cause 10 possibility
READING:
Answer key to the reading comprehension tasks about
the text “Understanding Risk”.
Activity 3
A2, B3, C1, D4
Activity 4
1. Why might choosing to drive make things
worse?
Because driving
is less safe than flying.
2. What sort of evidence do you think
supports the claim about transport safety?
statistics about
injuries and deaths in both kinds of transport
3. What is the usual result of visiting the
doctor frequently, and why does Gigerenzer think they are problems?
The result is
more treatment, medication and worry. These things don't seem to result in a
longer life, statistically, and they probably make people less comfortable or
happy.
4. How did Gigerenzer choose good
investments?
He asked people
in the street to choose the names of companies they'd heard of.
5. What are two signs that a person is likely
to make good choices based on feelings?
experience and a
history of making good decisions
6. In 2011, what did the news media
incorrectly report as having increased?
Depression
7. What factors work together in our minds to
calculate risk – even if we aren't aware that we're doing it?
ability to learn,
memory and ability to reason
Activity 5
1. (line 4) make matters worse
create problems
2. (line 8) get behind
the wheel of a car
drive
3. (line 9) statistically
considered according
to numbers and/or measured data
4. (line 29) medication
drug, medical
treatment
5. (line 45) intuition
a feeling of what is
true or right, not based on reason
6. (line 45) gut instinct
a feeling of what is
true or right, not based on reason
7. (line 59) following your heart
doing what feels right
according to your feelings or emotions
8. (line 64) antidepressant
a medicine that helps
you stop feeling sad all of the time
Activity 6
Statements 2, 4
and 6 are supported by the article.
Activity
8
1. Increasing sugar consumption poses a threat to public health.
2. Regular exercise reduces the odds of developing heart disease.
3. There is a one-in-11.5 million chance of being attacked by a shark in the USA.
4. Regularly eating fresh produce increases the likelihood of a long and healthy life.
5. The chances of recovering from many types of cancer are high.
6. People who collect honey run the risk of bee stings.
2. Regular exercise reduces the odds of developing heart disease.
3. There is a one-in-11.5 million chance of being attacked by a shark in the USA.
4. Regularly eating fresh produce increases the likelihood of a long and healthy life.
5. The chances of recovering from many types of cancer are high.
6. People who collect honey run the risk of bee stings.
Activity
9
1. What do you think are the best ways to reduce the
odds of becoming ill later in life?
2. What's something unexpected that has happened to you that felt like it was a one-in-a-million chance?
2. What's something unexpected that has happened to you that felt like it was a one-in-a-million chance?
3. What do you think poses a threat to global public health?
4. What medical developments have made the chances of recovering from many diseases high?
5. Do you ever break the rules and run the risk of getting caught or do you prefer be careful and stay safe?
6. What's the best way to increase the likelihood of success in your work or studies?
SESSION
ON MICROSOFT TEAMS
SPEAKING (oral production)
Page 146, activity 1. Individually, you
will explain the meaning of those collocations with the adjective “digital” and
then you will explain why you think they are current issues for society.
CONVERSATION (oral coproduction)
Page 146, activity 2. In pairs, you will
discuss how far you agree with the statements in this activity. Do you share
the same opinion? Why (not)?
CONVERSATION (oral coproduction)
Page 146, activity 8. As a group, we will
discuss six questions related to cyber security. Try to use as many expressions
related to risk as you can.
GRAMMAR
Talking about the future. First, revise the
information about different ways of talking about the future. This mind map
could be useful for you to revise it. Click here. After that, go to page 184, read
the grammatical information explaining other verb structures and noun phrases
that are used to convey ideas about the future and do exercises 1, 2 and 3.
CONVERSATION (oral coproduction)
Three students will be involved in a
debate about one of these four topics. Two
of you will be the panelists. A third student will be the host. The host must
think about how s/he is going to introduce the topic and summarise today’s
talking point. The host may want to mention recent incidents that s/he feels
are connected to the topic. Also, the host may think of two or three more
related questions s/he might put to callers. The panelists should try to
mention what they think may happen in the future.
The topics for discussion are:
1.
Today,
we’ll be asking if governments in the world are taking the risk of this global
pandemic seriously enough.
2.
Today,
we’ll be considering whether airport security will become too expensive to
maintain with the new situation after the Coronavirus crisis.
3.
Are
we doing enough to combat the threat of global warming?
4.
Today’s
question is: given the increasing risks of foreign travel under the current
circumstances, why not just holiday at home?
That’s all for now.
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