Today I would like to share an AI-powered lesson aimed at engaging students with a series of tasks focusing on useful vocabulary and expressions for talking about movies. The lesson includes a reading component, analyzing lexis with a critical mind and getting students to write their own movie reviews.
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As language teachers, we should strive to create learning opportunities to make language memorable. It goes without saying that, for effective learning to take place, learners also have a responsibility to take the language beyond the classroom setting and engage with newly acquired vocabulary in different ways.
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Today I’m going to craft a prompt that students can use to prepare for speaking tests. I am going to ask Gemini to act as if it were taking a speaking test and deliver the speech for me.
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Today I am going to try to enhance and expand the types of tasks included in a coursebook lesson with the assistance of ChatGPT. My aim is to create a variety of activities centered around the lesson’s main theme, which I can choose to use during the lesson or assign as homework or extended work.
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Today we’re going to take a look at how students can use Gemini (or any Gen.AI tool of their choice) to collect and practice a range of useful social language that isn’t often present in the language classroom. The generated learning material for learners is incredible.
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Have you ever tried having your students keep journals in the language classroom? This can be done using personal notebooks or digital tools, allowing students to record their thoughts and ideas. Journals are very useful as language learning tools because they help build the habit of writing regularly. Good habits learn the foundation for consistent progress.
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Memory plays a vital role in language learning. However, memory in language learning is not merely a matter of exposure, understanding and storage of new words; it also involves retrieval, quick access and the ability to use that language competently. Regardless of age or inherent ability, memory can and should be trained. Here is a class activity that can help learners store and activate language.
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Today I am going to create odd-one-out activities, that is, exercises where students are presented with a list of words, and their task is to identify which item doesn’t belong with the others. After experimenting with ChatGPT for a while for odd-one-out activities, I have found that results are not always up to scratch. However, one must acknowledge that technology will save us tons of time in the process, and in the end, we can simply leave out bits we are not pleased with and just take with us what we think will work well for our teaching needs and purposes.
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Today we are going to take a look at an incredibly powerful way to create meaningful homework material based on vocabulary that crops up in lessons and is noted on blackboards/whiteboards/IWBS.
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Gen.AI can be of enormous help in explaining vocabulary. There are various things we can do as learners to explore, understand and get exposure to lexical items, such as asking for definitions, requesting example sentences with the target words, or asking Gen.AI to write stories incorporating that vocabulary. In addition to these methods, teachers can also ask Gen.AI to generate conversation questions incorporating the target words for further exposure and practice in the language classroom. In this blog post I am going to give this last method a twist.
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AI in ELT 