Practical AI Tools for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing

Well, I think that listening is the hardest part for my students because we don't do enough in class.

I don't know about you, but I certainly would like to do more.

And that's one problem.

And the second problem is that you have a lot of books and loads of materials that you can use for listening.

As soon as you want to find authentic listening materials, it's a bit tricky.

And creating resources is time consuming, I find.

So AI can help a lot for that.

I've started asking ChatGPT to find videos.

And it's starting to get better and better, especially if you use the CEFR levels.

That does help.

Once you've found the authentic video that you like, I like to use the tool magicschool.ai.

It has loads of tools.

I mean, a lot.

One of them is a feature where you can paste a transcript of your video.

So let's say a YouTube video, you can find a transcript there quite easily.

You paste that into magicschool.ai into that part of the website.

and it generates comprehension questions in seconds.

So you have open questions, train falls, multiple choice, and I think the limitation is that you can have up to 10 questions.

So it is an AI chatbot, and because the questions generated are in the same language as the video and sometimes the same level, the questions might be a bit tricky.

So once they've generated the first set of questions, you can have a conversation with the chatbot and say, you know, I'd like something easier, A1 please, or rewrite the questions in English.

And it works really well.

I find you can do it with ChatGPT, but I find I like the platform Magic School for that particular task.

So that's the first thing that I'm doing to have authentic materials in my class.

And the second one that I really liked, and it's quite surprising, actually, it's Suno.

I really like Suno.