VERSION B · Bac pro · B1 (lighter version)

Session 2: AI that helps

Part 2. How does AI help us?

Objectives

Warm-up

Vote: Would you get into a car with no driver? Yes / No / Maybe.

Documents

Health: AI helps doctors read X-rays. The doctor decides.
Assistants: Alexa and Siri answer your voice.
Waymo: Waymo is a taxi with no driver. It works in some American cities, like San Francisco.
Easy to find on YouTube: search "Waymo official channel" for a ride video; "Big Hero 6 official trailer", Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Activities

  1. Match each picture with a text.
  2. Present perfect: I have tried / I have seen.
  3. Small task: a 30 second video: "My first ride in a Waymo" (imagined).

Sentence starters

Role play

Pairs: a taxi customer and a Waymo agent. The customer asks: Where is the driver? Is it safe?

Gap-fill worksheet

QR code to this worksheet
Word bank: driver, doctor, voice, safe, taxi, X-rays
  1. Waymo is a ______ with no driver.
  2. There is no ______ in the car.
  3. AI helps the ______.
  4. AI reads ______.
  5. Alexa answers your ______.
  6. Is it ______?
Answer key
  1. taxi
  2. driver
  3. doctor
  4. X-rays
  5. voice
  6. safe

Homework

Film or write your 30 second Waymo reaction.

Assessment grid

CriteriaLevel 1Level 2Level 3Level 4
SpeakingVery shortShortClearClear and lively
Present perfectNot usedTriedMostly correctCorrect

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