English Conversations 2

 Have you been using any novel AI apps recently? Share your experience with the group. What do you enjoy in the process? What surprises you? If you could use a metaphor to describe AI's effect on human life what would it be? Let's listen to this interview with  Danielle Susan Allen, a University Professor at Harvard University and the Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Kennedy School    Let's discover some of the possibilities AI offers in this article.  Choose an app, explore it, and present it to the class. Formal & Informal English  

Did you use to play any of the games in the photos? What toys or games do you remember playing from your school days? Were any of them crazes? (i.e. fads for a short time?) Do not name it, only explain the rules and let others guess  Did you use to improvise any games? (i.e. invent them while you played? Can you name one?  According to the author, why did some games stand the test of time? What point does the author wish to make by mentioning each of the following? a. 'toothpaste', 'snake eyes' and jumbos' (lines 1-2)b Egypt three millennia ago (lines 6-7)  c. video/computer games (lines 11, 23 and 25)  d. cognitive growth (line 19)  e. In the attic (line 29) f rules and structure (line 34)  READING SKILL Using topic sentences  Paragraphs in more formal texts, such as articles and essays, often include topic sentences. Most topic sentences are at the beginning or end of a paragraph. They summarize the paragraph in some way: by stating the argument, ask...

Identify a rule that applies to series of triples of numbers, that these three numbers “2-4-6” satisfy. Here is an article on the original experiment by psychologist Peter  Wason. Can you think of examples of confirmation bias that you've seen? What role do you think media plays in encouraging confirmation bias? Which of these things do you naturally do when you have conversations with people who don't share your point of view?  Which of these things do you need to work on?  2 What are some common beliefs that yo with your friends or family? Have you  met people with different beliefs from you? What happened? What are the benefits of having to convert people who have different beliefs from COMMUNICATION SKILL  Convincing someone who questions the evidence In order to make someone more likely to want to listen to - and believe - your evidence, try to do the following  1 Listen carefully and with respect.  2 Show that you understand their opinions....