Prompt engineering for English as a second language teaching
Sport opinions/Easter/ taste and nutrition/making decisions
Note: all exercises can be downloaded in a zip folder at the end of the post.
Prompt engineering: what is it? When I first heard this term, I thought you’d need extensive knowledge of coding. And this might be the case in some instances. But I’ve also realized that the creation or “engineering” of AI prompts requires a deep knowledge and experience of a specific topic. This week, I’m expanding the idea from last week, of using 1 prompt to create 3 exercises on a page. I’ve done some research and testing. And I’ve come up with 4 prompts that create 3 exercise each (see the Easter exercises below). This is a total of 12 distinct exercises. These prompts are essentially templates, as they can be applied to just about any topic. I’ve included these prompts at the end of the post.
1 Expressing opinions: sport
This exercise from last year was always meant to have audio and video.
2 Easter language exercises 1
This page includes: a classifying exercise, a true/false statement exercise and a ranking/prioritizing exercise.
3 Easter Exercises 2
This page includes: a multiple choice exercise, a vocabulary matching exercise and a fill in the blank exercise
4 Easter exercises 3
This page includes: a reading comprehension exercise, an inferring meaning from context exercise and a collocation exercise.
5 Easter exercises 4
This page includes: a ranking exercise, a conversation gap fill exercise and a pair work speaking activity.
5 Taste and nutrition (critical thinking)
This taste and nutrition critical thinking page includes: a ranking exercise, agree/disagree opinion statements and a sentence starter exercise.
6 Making decisions (critical thinking)
This “making decisions exercises” page was created using the same prompt as above.
