Vocabulary and Speaking.

1. Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

Vocabulary extension: choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. Read the statements first and decide whether a-h below are true (T) or false (F). Then work in pairs to discuss your opinion.

a. Stores will use software to cut the amount of shoplifting by customers.

b. The software will monitor what products you look at.

c. Researchers say the software could be in wide use by 2020.

d. Information from your eyes will alert staff when you will pay for goods.

e. Eye-tracking could help reduce the number of cyclists hit by cars.

f. Software now lets the eyes do things the computer mouse does.

g. The technology has not yet been put to use with disabled people.

h. A researcher suggested the software would not be that mainstream.

3. Match the following synonyms from the article.

1. keeping an eye on	a. display
2 tracks b. choose	b. choose
3. glance c. aspect	c. aspect
4. feature d. recognise	d. recognise
5. flash up e. follows	f. improv
6. situations f. improve	g. circumstances
7. identify g. circumstances	h. watching
8. select h. watching	i. believe
9. enhance i. believe	j. look
10. expect j. look	b. choose

4. Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one choice is possible):

1. software will soon be	a. be a common feature
2 it tracks the	b. in the near future
3. the technology would	c. by video screens ahead
4. calculates where the eyes are	d. as a mouse
5. as you pass	e. movement of your eyes
6. used in a number	f. to spot pedestrians
7. drivers are five times likelier	g. keeping an eye on you
8. allow people to use their eyes	h. daily mobility
9. enhance their	i. relative to the eye corners
10. available widely	j. of different situations

5. Look in your dictionary to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms for the words ‘eye’ and ‘track’.

•Share your findings with your partners.

• Make questions using the words you found.

• Ask your partner / group your questions.

6. Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

• Share your questions with other classmates / groups.

• Ask your partner / group your questions.

7. Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

• keeping	• help
• glance	• five
• common	• cut
• single	• daily
• detects	• really
• ahead	• near

STUDENT EYE-TRACKING SURVEY

Write five questions about eye-tracking in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

	STUDENT 1	STUDENT 2	STUDENT 3
Q.1.
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.

• Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.

• Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

EYE-TRACKING DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS

a) What did you think when you read the headline?

b) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘software’?

c) What do you think of the eye-tracking software?

d) Is the software an invasion of privacy?

e) Should people be able to choose if they want their eyes tracked?

f) Would the videos you see after eye-tracking make you spend more?

g) Do you think this software is like Big Brother in the book "1984"?

h) What will happen to the footage from cameras that tracked your eyes?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS

a) Did you like reading this article? Why/not?

b) If an eye-tracker is acceptable, how about a speech-tracker?

c) Should the eye-tracker be compulsory in cars to reduce accidents?

d) Do you like the idea of using your eyes as a mouse?

e) What other functions can you think of for eye-tracking?

f) How much is the eye-tracker like science fiction?

g) How could eye-tracking help you study English?

h) What questions would you like to ask the researchers?

AFTER DISCUSSION: Join another partner / group and tell them what you talked about.

1. What was the most interesting thing you heard?

2. Was there a question you didn’t like?

3. Was there something you totally disagreed with?

4. What did you like talking about?

5. Which was the most difficult question?

EYE-TRACKING PRESENTATION

Make a poster about eye-tracking and what it could be used for. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?