🤖 The Fleydo Times — AI & Society Special Edition
C1 Adults Lesson 01 presents a special edition of The Fleydo Times focused on artificial intelligence and society. The lead article analyses the shift from self-regulation to enforcement, comparing the EU’s comprehensive AI Act with America’s fragmented state-level approach. A security piece examines the deepfake crisis and the urgent need for content provenance systems. The ethics article explores why ethical principles are routinely ‘bolted on’ rather than ‘built in’ to AI systems. A labour market analysis presents IMF data on AI displacement and asks who benefits from automation. The edition includes 18 C1-level vocabulary items (oversight, enforcement, proliferation, provenance, autonomous, equitable, accrue, etc.), 8 advanced fill-in-the-blank exercises, 4 critical discussion questions requiring synthesis across articles, and an 8-question interactive quiz with localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- October 9, 2026 — AI & Society Special
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Complex noun phrases (a risk-based era of accountability / the world’s first comprehensive AI legislation)
- Passive constructions in formal register (Ethics is bolted on / Systems must undergo scrutiny)
- Hedging and qualifying (by most accounts / the question is no longer whether… but how)
- Discourse markers for argumentation (yet / however / meanwhile / the result is)
- Reported speech with formal attribution (warned / argued / said institute director)
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