A Random EFL Teacher Muses

JUST ANOTHER AI TRICK

I use different tricks in my classes and shall share them with anybody who is willing to offer an ear. This sharing will serve two main purposes:

1) My readers will hopefully learn something new and applicable.
2) I will not forget any of the above-mentioned tricks. 😅

A couple of days ago I was preparing for a private lesson and was thinking about how to revise some vocabulary from the previous lesson. Most of the lexical items, picked out personally by the student, were not united under an umbrella of a common topic. I usually prepare a list of open, genuine questions using the words, but this time I wanted to season the lesson with a bit of creativity. So I invented some sentences with the words, put them in an AI picture generator and voila! A nice activity to activate schemata and revise the lexical items.

How to do it:
1) Use your imagination and write some weird sentences/prompts.
2) Put them in a picture generator.
3) Ask your students to guess what the prompts were.
4) The end.

What to use:
1) https://www.freepik.com/ai-images-editor - 20 pictures a day for free, plenty enough
2) https://web.telegram.org/a/#6016052075 - prompts only in Russian, but we can translate, can’t we?

Benefits:
1) A quick warm-up.
2) Good for activating schemata.
3) A task that fits both grammar and vocabulary revision.
4) Allows the student to think creatively.
5) Open ended as there is no correct answer and even in mixed-level classes everybody will participate.
6) Very engaging (well, to my students). #activities_ideas
#tech_stuff
#AI
#lesson_materials

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JUST ANOTHER AI TRICK

I use different tricks in my classes and shall share them with anybody who is willing to offer an ear. This sharing will serve two main purposes:

1) My readers will hopefully learn something new and applicable.
2) I will not forget any of the above-mentioned tricks. 😅

A couple of days ago I was preparing for a private lesson and was thinking about how to revise some vocabulary from the previous lesson. Most of the lexical items, picked out personally by the student, were not united under an umbrella of a common topic. I usually prepare a list of open, genuine questions using the words, but this time I wanted to season the lesson with a bit of creativity. So I invented some sentences with the words, put them in an AI picture generator and voila! A nice activity to activate schemata and revise the lexical items.

How to do it:
1) Use your imagination and write some weird sentences/prompts.
2) Put them in a picture generator.
3) Ask your students to guess what the prompts were.
4) The end.

What to use:
1) https://www.freepik.com/ai-images-editor - 20 pictures a day for free, plenty enough
2) https://web.telegram.org/a/#6016052075 - prompts only in Russian, but we can translate, can’t we?

Benefits:
1) A quick warm-up.
2) Good for activating schemata.
3) A task that fits both grammar and vocabulary revision.
4) Allows the student to think creatively.
5) Open ended as there is no correct answer and even in mixed-level classes everybody will participate.
6) Very engaging (well, to my students). #activities_ideas
#tech_stuff
#AI
#lesson_materials

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