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A C1-level listening, vocabulary, and speaking ESL lesson focused on artificial intelligence and modern healthcare through the topic of AI in medicine. Ideal for higher-level learners developing their ability to discuss technology, healthcare, ethics, and the future of work using advanced vocabulary and authentic materials.
Students explore the topic through an authentic Gizmodo video – Can Your Doctor Be Replaced by AI? The lesson includes prediction tasks, listening for gist and detail, vocabulary focus, word formation, opinion-based speaking activities, and personalised discussion.
Warmer: Everyday AI
Look at pictures of everyday objects and services that use artificial intelligence and discuss what they have in common. Students activate technology-related vocabulary while predicting the topic of the lesson.
Discuss which application of AI is the most beneficial personally and explain why. Students compare opinions and justify their answers using real-life examples.
Listening for Gist 1: Can Doctors Be Replaced by AI?
Before watching the video, discuss whether doctors could realistically be replaced by artificial intelligence. Then watch the beginning of the Gizmodo video (0:00 – 0:32) Can Your Doctor Be Replaced by AI? and check Dr. Erik K. Oermann’s opinion about the future of doctors and AI.
Group Discussion: Advantages and Disadvantages of AI in Medicine
Work in groups and create lists of the benefits and drawbacks of using AI in healthcare. Students exchange ideas, compare opinions, and discuss whether there is a future for AI in medicine.
Listening for Gist 2: Benefits and Drawbacks
Watch the rest of the video (0:33 – 3:29) and identify the advantages and disadvantages of AI in medicine mentioned by Dr. Erik K. Oermann. Then compare the ideas from the video with students’ own opinions from the previous discussion.
Listening for Detail: Vocabulary Focus
Watch the second part of the video again and complete sentences with missing vocabulary items from the recording. The target vocabulary includes: accurate, diagnosing, predictions, non-clinical, and accurately. Identify the part of speech of target vocabulary items and complete word-formation tables with noun, verb, adjective, and adverb forms.
Gap-Fill: Word Formation in Context
Complete sentences connected to AI and healthcare using the correct forms of words in brackets. Students recycle vocabulary from previous exercises while focusing on meaning and grammatical accuracy.
Discussion: Agree or Disagree?
Discuss statements connected to artificial intelligence in healthcare, such as AI will help doctors become more accurate and AI will spread misinformation among patients. Students explain and defend their opinions while reacting to their classmates’ ideas.
Final Discussion: The Future of AI in Healthcare
Discuss whether AI should replace doctors in certain areas of healthcare, whether students would trust AI-generated medical advice, and how artificial intelligence may change medicine in the future.
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