The latest Language Teaching Takeoff Webinar welcomed first-time guest host Pilar Capaul. As a language teacher and ELT content creator, she shared examples from her own lessons to demonstrate how teachers can use the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition to monitor understanding and create engaging activities.
Use TeacherMatic’s AI tools to Inspire, Monitor and Motivate in Everyday Teaching
London, March 2026 – In ‘Inspire, Monitor, Motivate: Practical AI Tools for Everyday Teaching,’ Pilar showcased the ‘Did you do your homework?’ and ‘Inspiration!’ generators, demonstrating how two of her favourite TeacherMatic AI tools can be used to check learner comprehension and create engaging classroom activities. Drawing on examples from her own lessons, she showed how teachers can adapt tasks to suit different learner profiles, topics and levels.
Moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager at Avallain, the session explored how everyday classroom challenges can be approached with greater confidence and new, creative ideas for lessons and activities.
An AI Toolkit for Everyday Language Teaching Tasks
Pilar introduced the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition, an AI toolkit she values for the range of practical tasks it supports in everyday teaching. With more than 50 generators designed for language educators, teachers can plan lessons, adapt materials and generate meaningful activities that contextualise language for learners.
She also highlighted that teachers can select the methodology they want to apply, ensuring that the generated activities and resources align with their preferred teaching approach.
Assessing What Students Really Understood
Homework is an important starting point for any lesson. As students enter the classroom, Pilar wants a quick sense of whether they engaged with the material and understood the key ideas. As she explained during the session, ‘I don’t just want to know if they did it. I want to know if they understood it.’
Simply asking students to raise their hands to confirm they completed a homework task rarely provides this level of insight. Instead, our host demonstrated how teachers can use the ‘Did you do your homework?’ generator to turn homework checks into short activities that reveal what learners have actually understood.
Turning Homework Checks into a Lesson Warm-Up
Using a homework task she had set for an upper-intermediate class studying environmental topics, Pilar illustrated her approach to assessing comprehension. Students were asked to watch a video at home and create a mind map highlighting key information. To ensure understanding, she uploaded the video transcript to the ‘Did you do your homework?’ generator, and asked it to produce three short summaries, only one of which correctly reflects the content.
Pilar tailored the activity to B1 learners with a medium-length output. She also included an optional description of the class: energetic teenagers with short attention spans who are accustomed to fast-paced content on platforms like TikTok. The goal was to create something that would capture their attention immediately, while illustrating how teachers can also adapt content to specific learner needs and different classroom contexts.
Refining for Real Classroom Settings
Below the generated content, teachers can find an answer key. Acknowledging that teachers often teach several classes and set many tasks, this resource provides additional reassurance.
While the generated result already provided what was needed to evaluate learner understanding, she decided to push the platform a little further by considering her learner profile more closely. These students may not be particularly engaged by a topic such as pollution, so she refined the results by suggesting ‘add jokes to make it engaging for teenagers.’ Pilar reminded teachers that AI can also be guided in other ways, for example, by asking it to focus on specific grammar points, such as the present simple, to use narrative tenses or simply to make the activity more playful and engaging.
The updated output showed how even small adjustments can make a noticeable difference. Rather than relying on a standard textbook-style activity, she had something tailored to her learners. She added the task to her lesson plan and asked students to identify the correct summary, creating a lively warm-up at the start of the lesson. This activity encourages students to revisit the homework, reflect on what they have learned and discuss the topic together, while also giving the teacher a clear sense of how well they have understood the video.
Finding Inspiration When a Topic Feels Uninteresting
Sometimes teachers need to cover topics that are not immediately engaging. The ‘Inspiration!’ generator enables teachers to quickly and easily make these lessons feel relevant, meaningful and motivating.
To demonstrate this generator, our host used a group of her own adult learners. These are A2-level students who had studied English before but were returning to it after a break. They had practised the present simple many times and were beginning to feel frustrated, even though they still needed more practice. In this case, the question was: how do we approach the topic differently and make it fresh again?
Creating and Refining Activities for Greater Engagement
Describe the learner profile: in Pilar’s example, this is a group of busy adults who want to make progress quickly. She then explored the additional settings, selecting the Communicative Language Teaching model so the activities would focus on speaking practice.
The result was a range of classroom ideas connected to the topic ‘Routines around the world’, including matching routines to different cultures, role-play activities based on daily schedules and short quizzes designed to practise question formation. Rather than repeating familiar coursebook exercises, the activities provided new ways to approach the same language point while keeping learners actively involved.
She also illustrated how these ideas can be refined further. When the webinar participants suggested turning the activities into games, she typed ‘include more games’ into the refine box. The regenerated output included additional suggestions, such as board games, creating opportunities for students to practise the language while focusing on interaction and friendly competition.
From Ideas to Real Classroom Use
Throughout the session, it was emphasised that the value of these generators lies in how teachers use and adapt the results. She also highlighted the information icon available within each generator, which provides guidance, examples and practical tips for getting the most out of each tool.
Once activities are generated, they can be exported and reused in future lessons. Pilar advised users to save outputs so they can be incorporated into lesson planning, revisited for revision activities or shared with colleagues to see how they work in different classrooms. In this way, the generated ideas become part of a broader teaching process rather than a one-off resource.
By combining quick activity generation with teacher judgement and refinement, the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition can support teachers in creating lessons that remain engaging, adaptable and relevant to their learners.
Explore the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition
The TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition provides language educators with practical, safe AI tools for planning lessons, generating engaging classroom activities and developing engaging language learning experiences. Teachers remain in control of every step, reviewing and refining outputs so they reflect their teaching approach, learners and classroom context.
Next in the Webinar Series:
Provide Meaningful, Timely Feedback at Scale with the Power of AI
🗓 Thursday, 16th April
🕛 12:00 – 12:30 CEST (13:00 – 13:30 BST)
Join Joanna Szoke, freelance teacher trainer and AI in education specialist, for the next session in the Language Teaching Takeoff Webinar Series as she explores the challenges of delivering meaningful, timely feedback and the role AI can play in supporting this process.
See the new Advanced Feedback generator in action, designed to support feedback workflows at scale while maintaining teacher oversight.
Click here to register and secure a spot
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