Giáo án Reading

Ss activate prior knowledge about AI tools used in learning and get interested in the topic of the reading.

T asks Ss to think about apps or websites that give feedback or suggest exercises after they study. Ss answer these questions:

• Have you ever used an app that suggests practice exercises? What does it recommend?
• Do you always trust its feedback? Why or why not?
  T shows the picture of a robot tutor on the slide and asks: 'Can a computer understand your mistakes as well as a teacher?'

Ss share 2–3 examples of AI tools they use, for example: 'I use an app that suggests grammar exercises after each lesson.' Ss give one reason for trusting or not trusting automated feedback, for example: 'I trust it when the exercises match what we learned in class, but I still ask my teacher when I am not sure.'

Ss understand and pronounce six key words from the reading and use them to describe AI in education.

Key words:

• artificial intelligence (trí tuệ nhân tạo)
• feedback (phản hồi)
• privacy (sự riêng tư)
• automate (tự động hoá)
• reliable (đáng tin cậy)
• human oversight (giám sát của con người)
  Task: Ss match each word with its definition on the word cards. Then Ss make one sentence about each word, using the reading as a model. Example: 'A system may detect a pattern in its data without understanding every cause.'

Correct matching:

• artificial intelligence = computer systems that can do tasks usually requiring human intelligence
• feedback = information telling a learner how well he or she has done
• privacy = the right to keep personal information secret
• automate = make a process run by machines with little human work
• reliable = can be trusted to work well
• human oversight = people checking and controlling how a system works
  Each S writes one sentence with a key word, for example: 'Human oversight is necessary because an automatic system can make mistakes.'

Ss read the original text for the main idea and details, and justify inferences with evidence from the text.

T gives Ss Worksheet No. 1 and asks them to follow the reading strategy:

• Read the passage once to find the central question.
• Locate the exact sentence that supports each answer.
• Classify each statement as a stated fact, a reasonable inference or an unsupported claim.
  Questions for Ss:

1. What is the central question of the passage?
2. What happened to Nam in the fictional classroom, and what was the real cause of the wrong result?
3. What does the teacher's action show about human oversight?
4. Which of these statements is an unsupported claim: (a) 'Automated feedback can support practice.' (b) 'Educational AI will replace all teachers.' (c) 'Some answers had not been saved.'?

Central question: Can automated feedback be trusted without human checking? Answer: No, educational AI needs human oversight and usable evidence.
Detail: Nam was offered easy vocabulary because some of his answers had not been saved while the network was failing.
Inference: The teacher's checking showed that the system's pattern was based on incomplete data, so the result was not a fair measure of Nam's ability.
Question 4 answer: (b) is an unsupported claim, because the passage never says that AI will replace all teachers. (a) is a stated fact from the text, and (c) is a stated detail about the case.
Key sentence: 'The goal is to assist learning, not replace judgement with an unexplained score.'

Ss distinguish homophones by meaning in context and use causative structures with have and get correctly.

Part A: Homophones

• Pair / pear (/per/)
• Right / write (/raɪt/)
• Know / no (/noʊ/)
  T asks Ss: 'Write the right instruction. Check the pair of labels.' Ss must choose the correct word in context.
  Part B: Causatives
• Active causative: have + person + bare infinitive: We had the technician check the robot.
• get + person + to-infinitive: We got the technician to check it.
• Passive causative: have/get + object + past participle: We had the robot checked.
  Ss compare: We had it repaired / We had repaired it. Ss explain the difference.

Part A: Ss complete the sentences:

1. Please ___ the instructions carefully. (write / right) → write
2. I'd like a ___ of juice, please. (pear / pair) → pear
3. I ___ the answer to the question. (know / no) → know
4. Mark the ___ answer on your paper. (right / write) → right
   Part B: Ss state the meaning:

• We had the robot checked = someone else checked the robot for us.
• We had it repaired = we arranged for the repair; the thing being repaired is 'it'.
• We had repaired it = a past perfect structure, which means we had done the repair before something else happened.
  Ss write one sentence: 'The school had the network checked last month.'

Ss answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions about the passage and check their answers against the text.

Pairs answer the following questions. Each answer must be supported by a sentence from the passage.
2. Why did the system underestimate Nam in the fictional case?
A. Every easy question was wrong.
B. He had never studied vocabulary.
C. The teacher refused to read his work.
D. Some answers were lost during a network problem.
3. What did the teacher do?
A. Removed every lesson.
B. Published private data.
C. Accepted the score without question.
D. Checked his work and asked for his reasoning.
4. What does a detected pattern not ensure?
A. A recommendation.
B. Understanding of every cause.
C. A stored value.
D. A repeated observation.
5. What is the intended role of AI?
A. Replace all judgement.
B. Make labels unquestionable.
C. Support learning with oversight.
D. Collect every private detail.

Answers:
2. D – Some answers were lost during a network problem. (Evidence: 'some answers had not been saved' while the network was failing.)
3. D – Checked his work and asked for his reasoning. (Evidence: 'The teacher checked his work... asked Nam to explain his reasoning.')
4. B – Understanding of every cause. (Evidence: 'A system may detect a pattern in its data without understanding every cause.')
5. C – Support learning with oversight. (Evidence: 'The goal is to assist learning, not replace judgement with an unexplained score.')
Ss write the evidence sentence next to each answer in their notebooks.

Ss apply what they have learned about AI, human oversight and causatives to write a short paragraph giving a recommendation about AI feedback.

Task: Imagine you are a student representative. Write a short paragraph (about 80–100 words) to the school principal about how AI feedback should be used in our school. Your paragraph must:

• state your opinion clearly;
• give one reason and one example from the reading;
• include one sentence with a causative (have or get + object + past participle, or get/have + person + to-infinitive);
• mention the need for human oversight and privacy.
  Ss may work in groups of 3 to brainstorm ideas before writing individually.

Sample paragraph:
'I think AI feedback can help us practise, but it should not replace teachers. In our fictional example, Nam was given easy vocabulary because some of his answers had not been saved, so the system was wrong. I suggest that the school should have the feedback checked by a teacher before we accept it. We should also make sure that the app does not collect unnecessary personal information, because privacy is important. Used carefully, AI can support learning and free time for discussion.'
Criteria: clear opinion (2 points); one correct reason and example (3 points); correct causative (2 points); mention of human oversight and privacy (2 points); accurate spelling and punctuation (1 point).