Revisiting and improving old topics with AI
+ customizable and adaptable questionnaires
Note: paid subscribers can now find links to customized GPTs used to create the exercises (you need to be a subscriber to GPT 4). Some exercises are included with the free section of the post. Paid subscribers can download the complete lessons with answers to all exercises and all the materials (audio and video) at the end of the post.
1. Invitations and excuses
This is an older exercise, now vastly improved. It is a slightly more advanced invitations exercise focusing on politely refusing invitations and giving excuses.
2. Movie likes/dislikes
If you teach elementary students, you are always revisiting topics such as likes and dislikes. And you often get ideas to perfect the teaching materials. In the past, those ideas usually disappeared into nowhere. Now it’s easier now than ever before to modify materials. This exercise has been posted before, but now it’s adaptable to any culture (I teach Chinese students so …no names of movies or actors etc.). Also, I’ve added a movie questionnaire and report writing exercise. I discovered last week that when you have a class of really weak students, it’s great to have example responses as it allows the really weak students to choose a response, while the better students will create their own responses. So now the One-on-One Conversation Starter is a Classroom Conversation Starter too. It was created with Eslflow’s One-on-One Conversation Starter GPT, accessible to GPT 4 subscribers. The link is in the subscriber section.
3. Personality adjectives for a businessman
Personality adjectives is another topic that language teachers are always revisiting. This exercise focuses on personality adjectives. I also added a personality adjectives questionnaire to this exercise.
