Note: paid subscribers can now find links to the customized GPTs used to create the exercises (you need to be a subscriber to GPT 4). Also, you can easily download the complete lessons and all the materials at the end of the post.
The ability to create and customize GPTs is, for me, perhaps just as revolutionary as the launching of OpenAI’s playground and ChatGPT. In this post, I’m going to discuss 4 GPTs that are extremely useful for creating exercises and lessons. Fortunately, I’ve been been keeping a record of prompts for a year and a half now. The best prompt ideas are now combined to make impressive GPTs.
1 Critical Language Thinker (a guide for language-based critical thinking activities)
If you’ve ever had an idea at the back of your mind that you wanted to try out, but never had time, AI may be the assistant you need. I’ve often wanted more critical thinking exercises mixed in with grammar exercises. Now I can do it everyday. This is the purpose of this GPT. Below are some examples. Please forgive small mistakes as I’m still testing the GPTs.
2 Topic Master
This GPT can be applied to just about any topic. It creates a ranking or classifying exercise. Then it creates a chart relating to aspects of the topic with some comprehension/ discussion questions to complete the exercise. If you want to alter the contents, you just send another message to the GPT. Easy! Of course, I made lessons for Thanksgiving and Good Friday.
I initially asked the GPT to create a lesson about Thanksgiving and it just gave me food, which I didn’t want . So I gave it the instruction below. Easy fix!
3 Dialogue and Exercise Architect
For this GPT, I wanted something that would give a dialogue script, a gap fill exercise and some comprehension/language exercises related to the dialogue (I haven’t created the audio yet but the scripts around included). Wow! This is nice.
4 Language Chart Master
This GPT focuses on charts and tables. I have had unpredictable results creating charts and tables with ChatGPT. A specialized GPT is more reliable. And I wanted 2 kinds of charts: 1) short grammar guides in chart form and 2) vocabulary matching exercises in chart format. So far, it’s been quite successful.
5 Invitations: accepting and refusing
This is an old exercise that’s been given a makeover.
6 Making requests: office dialogues
This is another older exercise given a makeover.