Discuss these questions with a partner:
What is a drone, and what are they used for?
Do you think the skies will soon be full of them?
Task 2 - Reading
Below, you will find four BBC news articles involving drones.
Work individually.
Read one of them and make notes under these headings:
- Summary of story (maximum 3 sentences)
- Advantages of using drones
- Problems arising from using drones
- If I was Prime Minister, I would pass legislation (make a law) which said...
Here are the links to the news articles:
Bears Knock Out Airspace Sea Gulls
Task 3 - Vocabulary Check
After making your notes, go back and underline any difficult words or phrases in the article (maximum 4 examples).
Discuss these with a partner without showing them your notes.
Modify your notes if you need to.
Task 4 - Presenting
Use your notes to explain your news stories to your group.
While you listen, make notes under the same four headings: summary, advantages, problems, if I was prime minister...
Task 5 - Discussion and WritingWith a partner, look at all the different laws that the whole group came up with.
Agree and write down one law that covers all the situations.
Include penalties for breaking the law.
Task 6 - Testing Your Law
Is this man breaking the law? Should he be punished?
What do you think of his "invention"?
Task 7 - Internet Research (homework)
Find out what you can about Zano drones.
- What is the concept of Zano drones? What are they designed to do?
- Zano is a modern company, funded by Kickstarter. What is Kickstarter?
- What problems has the company experienced?
- Do you think that Zano drones will be a success?
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