Teacher Guide
10mins - Introduction: Conversation - Discuss the digital revolution with the student, ask about the impact of technology on the student's life and discuss her/his opinion on how society is changing thanks to technological developments. Ask the student to make a prediction of a technological advance that may be made in the next ten years.
05mins - Revision: Book work - Discuss the chapters of the book that were set for homework at the end of the previous lesson.
05mins - Comprehension: Answer the comprehension questions that accompany the newly read chapters of the book. 05mins - Mini Task: The student will be given a list of root words (describe, love, cover and believe) and instructed to form as many new words as he can from the root words by adding suffixes and/or prefixes. Ask the student to write the new words on the whiteboard.
The student's list should look something like this: description, descriptive, indescribable, lovable, lovely, loving, loveless, uncovered, cover-up, recover, unbelievable, disbelief, make-believe.
15mins - Test: 08 reading practice - part 3
Answers: revelations, revolutionise/revolutionize, depths, comparatively, findings, significantly, emissions, endangered
15mins - Creative Task: The student is to choose a significant event in the technology world that has taken place in recent times (e.g the launch of the first iPhone, artificial intelligence, artificial embryos). Once she/he has chosen an event, they are to write a newspaper report on the event, imagining that they are a journalist who has been asked to cover the occasion.
05mins - Warm down: I will set the student chapters of the book to read for homework whilst contemplating any new themes and/or characters that may have appeared.