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"Ai, está na ponta da língua...", "Como é que se diz...?", "Ora bolas, é que sabia perfeitamente...". Estes são alguns dos comentários que os professores de línguas ouvem dia após dia. Como docente, adoro observar como os estudantes aprendem vocabulário em inglês e o incorporam nas atividades orais e escritas. É fantástico, tanto para nós que ensinamos, como para quem aprende.

O que não é tão gratificante é aquela aula, talvez um mês mais tarde, na qual voltamos a falar sobre um tema semelhante e mencionamos aos alunos um termo específico que viram há algumas semanas atrás. E deparamo-nos com os sinais de exasperação citados acima ou, pior ainda, com expressões de esquecimento. Infelizmente, apesar da satisfação que os alunos possam sentir, adquirir novas palavras e expressões é apenas uma conquista a curto prazo.

Se, de facto, queres melhorar o teu nível, são necessárias técnicas para memorizares de forma eficaz o vocabulário em inglês. Seguem-se algumas sugestões que poderão ser úteis.

1. Tempestade de ideias.
Pensar em palavras organizadas por categorias pode não ser a forma mais natural de descobrir novos termos, mas pode ser algo muito benéfico para rever o vocabulário em inglês. Normalmente, os estudantes acham mais fácil responder a uma pergunta do género "Que palavras conheço relacionadas com Finance?" do que à pergunta "Que palavras novas aprendi no mês passado?".

O método é simples: escolhe uma categoria e durante 90 segundos regista todas as palavras e expressões que te lembres relacionadas com esse tema. Assim, na categoria Computers, teríamos: save, delete, file, spreadsheet, etc. Esta atividade pode ser realizada individualmente ou competindo com um amigo. Geralmente, recomendo aos meus alunos de nível superior que atribuam pontos extra às palavras mais difíceis ou específicas. Precisas de ideias sobre categorias de vocabulário em inglês? Encontrarás muitas aqui .

2. Aplicações para a aprendizagem de idiomas.
Existem inúmeras aplicações, cada uma com as suas próprias vantagens. Anki, Memrise e Quizlet foram uma grande ajuda para alguns dos meus estudantes, principalmente nos níveis inferiores. No entanto, no que toca à revisão a maioria dos professores provavelmente considera que o Kahoot é a melhor opção. Através do teu computador, acede ao sítio Web e ao kahoot que pretendes rever.

No ecrã verás perguntas com várias respostas possíveis; estas opções aparecem simultaneamente no ecrã do teu dispositivo móvel, para que possas marcar a opção correta. O facto de as respostas serem selecionadas através do telemóvel significa que os estudantes podem competir com os colegas como parte de um jogo interativo muito divertido.

Outra possibilidade é jogar individualmente e tentar melhorar a pontuação anterior. Se quiseres rever vocabulário específico, podes criar o teu próprio kahoot formulando as tuas perguntas. Se achares que isto requer muito tempo, podes procurar uma categoria de vocabulário e encontrarás uma série de perguntas já feitas. Cuidado: é muito viciante tanto para os jovens como para os adultos.

3. Mapas mentais.
É uma forma de aprofundar os diferentes níveis de cada categoria de vocabulário em inglês. Só precisas de escolher um tema, escrevê-lo dentro de um círculo, no centro, e dar asas à tua imaginação, dividindo as ideias em ramos principais e secundários. Por exemplo, na categoria Human Body, é possível distinguir primeiramente os elementos básicos: head, legs, arms, torso.

Depois, podemos subdividir cada um deles e continuar a subdividir os novos elementos resultantes (observa o diagrama). Ficarás surpreendido ao descobrir a quantidade de vocabulário que sabes sobre alguns temas. Podes fazê-lo com papel e caneta ou com a função SmartArt do Word do teu computador. Também podes utilizar uma das muitas aplicações e sítios Web gratuitos dedicados aos mapas mentais.

4. Passatempos.
Quer sejas daqueles que fazem as palavras cruzadas do jornal todos os dias ou não, não há dúvida de que os passatempos são uma excelente maneira de treinares a tua memória. Mais uma vez, obrigam-te a pensar no vocabulário em inglês por categorias. Para a preparação de exames, Cambridge oferece um PDF excelente com atividades sobre todo o tipo de temas, desde a arte até aos desportos, entre muitos outros. Podes imprimi-lo e terás exercícios para várias semanas.

Se não gostas de imprimir, encontrarás inúmeras sopas de letras online, geralmente organizadas por temas (mas antes de resolvê-las tenta não olhar para as palavras que deves procurar!). Também podes experimentar os jogos de LearnEnglish para teres a certeza de que sabes o significado exato do vocabulário em inglês que estudaste.

5. Tradução.
Os estudantes de nível superior têm a oportunidade de rever e testar os seus conhecimentos em áreas específicas, traduzindo conferências e músicas online. TED.com inclui uma página designada " Topics" com ligações a conferências sobre uma grande variedade de temas.

Vamos imaginar que quero rever o vocabulário em inglês sobre Technology. Se clicar neste tema e escolher, por exemplo, a incrível apresentação de Pranav Mistry, "The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology", posso clicar na opção "Transcript" e aceder ao texto traduzido em português, selecionar vários parágrafos e começar a traduzi-los de volta para o inglês original. No final de cada parágrafo, posso ouvir a conferência e verificar se a minha tradução é mais ou menos precisa.

Não gostas das conferências TED? Experimenta fazer o mesmo com músicas. Só tens de escolher uma música relacionada com a categoria que queres rever e pesquisar a sua letra num dos muitos sítios Web dedicados à tradução de músicas de inglês para português. Depois, traduz a música para inglês e ouve-a no YouTube para comprovares se fizeste um bom trabalho. É uma forma divertida de garantir que recordarás essas palavras durante muitos anos.

6. Desenha.
Se tens uma veia de talento artístico, representar palavras e expressões na forma de desenhos simples pode ser uma ótima solução para rever vocabulário. Através de uma pesquisa rápida por "illustrated idioms" no Google Images terás acesso a inúmeros exemplos que te servirão de inspiração.

Em vez de te sentares a memorizar listas de palavras e expressões, escolhe o vocabulário em inglês que de facto queres memorizar e elabora um simples esboço. Mas não escrevas nada no teu desenho, para que tenhas de pensar e relembrar a palavra ou expressão a que faz alusão da próxima vez que olhares para ele. Ou melhor ainda, utiliza uma ferramenta online de desenhos simples para elaborares a imagem: desta forma, poderás guardá-la e consultá-la de novo durante outras sessões de estudo futuras.

De qualquer das formas, tenta escolher um meio para rever o vocabulário em inglês que seja agradável para ti. Alguns especialistas afirmam que precisamos de ver ou ouvir uma palavra quarenta vezes (sim, quarenta!) antes de a aprendermos. Mas quem é que tem tempo para isso? Portanto, quer estejas a rever através de uma canção, uma aplicação ou uma imagem, torna o processo o mais divertido e interessante possível e verás que vais conseguir fixar esse vocabulário muito mais rapidamente.

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Table of contents

Artificial intelligence used to be something we read about in science fiction, but it seems to be everywhere these days. You see the picture at the beginning of this article? It was made using an AI art generator.

The latest craze to hit the Internet is a fun, but powerful, app called ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence to answer questions and commands.

Some people think that ChatGPT will change the way we use the Internet. Others are afraid that they may lose their jobs because of it!

Let's not worry about that just yet. Instead, let's see how ChatGPT can be a powerful tool to help you improve your English.

What is ChatGPT and where can you get it?

In simple terms, ChatGPT is a chatbot - you can talk to it. But that's not what makes it so powerful. You can give ChatGPT creative tasks to do; this is where its strength is.

Let me give you an example. I asked ChatGPT to write a haiku for me and here is the result.

This is great, but I wanted to test it further:

A haiku is only three lines, but ChatGPT can write essays, articles, songs, poems and even test questions. It can also correct mistakes and rewrite passages to make them easier to understand.

To get ChatGPT is simple*. Just go to https://chat.openai.com/ and open an account. It takes less than a minute. To use it, simply type questions or commands in the textbox.

*To use ChatGPT, you need a secure connection. It may not work on some campus WiFi systems. Even on normal WiFi, I found that I sometimes had to try several times to log in.

How to Use ChatGPT to Improve Your Grammar

The first thing I want to show you is how ChatGPT can help you correct the grammar in your writing:

So far, so good, but this isn't much of an improvement over a basic grammar checker. How about this?

Now things are getting more interesting! You can ask ChatGPT to correct and comment on paragraphs or even an entire page of your writing*. It's like having a teacher correct your work!
*There is a text limit of around 1500 words for a single prompt (including both the question and answer). Note that ChatGPT is still under development, so this will probably change.
ChatGPT can help you understand the rules of English (or other languages). You can ask it about grammar or language use and it will give you much better answers than a search engine. You can also discuss the answers with ChatGPT for further clarification.

For example, many of my own students are fond of using 'shall' and seem surprised when I tell them that it is an old-fashioned sounding word.

Note how the AI gives a very detailed explanation. Instead of a simple yes/no answer, it explains some of the subtleties. In fact, I think it explains it better than me. Perhaps I should be worried about losing my job!

Now here's something interesting. Imagine that you have been studying the present perfect tense (perhaps with ChatGPT). Now, you want to find some questions to test yourself. You can ask ChatGPT to generate the questions for you!

I really like how ChatGPT includes questions on the structure and meaning of the present perfect tense, rather than just testing you on how to use it. This is something I rarely see in grammar textbooks.

Teachers, this is a simple way for you to generate questions for your students! You could generate 20 questions, then edit out the ones you don't want, or edit them to make them more culturally appropriate.

How to Use ChatGPT to Improve Your Vocabulary

Let's explore some ways that ChatGPT can help you with your vocabulary.

Let's start with one for teachers. Imagine you want wordlists for various topics that you want to teach. You can ask ChatGPT to generate these for you.

Perhaps this list is too simple. We can ask for a more complex one:

As a learner, it's difficult to know which phrasal verbs or idioms are the most useful to learn. We can get ChatGPT to help. Note the word common in the request.

You could also ask ChatGPT to provide unusual phrasal verbs, more phrasal verbs or even phrasal verbs for a specific CEFR level. You could ask for lists of idioms, academic words or business vocabulary.

Let's say you want to read an article from a website and you'd like to review some of the vocabulary before you begin. I used this prompt with an article from bbc.co.uk:

As you can see, the output is not perfect - it picked ExxonMobil as a vocabulary item, but it's the name of a company. However, it did successfully provide a list of useful vocabulary. And it provided the vocabulary as phrases, not just single words, which is really helpful.

What I've shown here is just an excerpt from the article. I tested ChatPT with the entire article (706 words) and it was able to process it and generate a wordlist.

What about confusing words? My own students always ask me to help them with "complain" and "complaint". They always seem to mix them up. ChatGPT can help in two ways. First, it can give an explanation:

Note how the answer is clear and detailed, with examples.

What is the second way that ChatGPT can help? It can give practice questions!

How to Use ChatGPT to Prepare for IELTS

One of the hardest or scariest parts of IELTS is the speaking section. In particular, there is a section where you are asked to talk for one or two minutes on a given topic.

Let's see how ChatGPT handles this kind of task.

I like how ChatGPT provided a well-organised text with an introduction, a preview sentence, four balanced main points and a conclusion.

I also like how ChatGPT used a good range of vocabulary such as monotonous and novelty as well as idioms such as stuck in a rut. This presentation would score a very high mark in an IELTS test.

Now, you can't bring ChatGPT along to your IELTS exam, so how can you use it to prepare?

1. Choose a speaking topic. There are plenty on this page.

2. Make short notes, outlining your presentation.

3. Write out your presentation.

4. Give ChatGPT the same task and compare your responses. Does ChatGPT have points or vocabulary that you would like to use?

5. Put the script aside and record yourself giving the talk.

6. Repeat this activity as many times as possible before your IELTS test.

How to Use ChatGPT to Practise Reading

We've already seen how ChatGPT can produce a vocabulary list for a reading passage. It can also help you by taking difficult texts and simplifying them.

This can be particularly useful when you want to read business or academic texts, but the language is just a little bit too difficult. Let's try a business text first:

Would you agree that the simplified version is easier to understand?

Let's imagine that we have an academic text that gives a definition of quantum entanglement, but we can't quite understand it. (Academic texts can be really badly written!)

While I'm not 100% sure that a child could understand, a college student with intermediate-level English should be able to understand. And this is quantum physics, one of the most advanced topics in science!

Let's try William Shakespeare. He's difficult to understand for a different reason; he wrote his plays hundreds of years ago and they are not in modern English.

We can test ChatGPT with this famous speech from Hamlet.

The output, as you can see, is... interesting. It's a reasonable if not perfect interpretation which really is easier to understand.

How to Use ChatGPT to Practise Writing

We've seen how the AI can write a script for a presentation. Of course, it could write an essay, too, but that would be cheating!

But how about this? Imagine that you need to write an essay on homelessness in the United States. You've got your outline, but you can't think how to begin the essay. Let's ask ChatGPT.

Let's keep going:

As I mentioned, copying output from ChatGPT for an assignment is cheating, but it's a great way to generate ideas, vocabulary and even statistics for your own essay.

What if you are struggling even to put together an outline for your essay? Yes, ChatGPT can help and save time and worry.

Give me an outline for an essay on the dangers of AI to humanity

I. Introduction

Definition of artificial intelligence (AI)

The increasing prevalence of AI in our daily lives

II. Potential dangers of AI

Loss of jobs due to automation

Risk of AI becoming more intelligent than humans

Ethical concerns around AI decision-making

The possibility of AI being used for malicious purposes

III. Examples of AI gone wrong

The Facebook AI that developed its own language

The Tesla Autopilot accident that resulted in a fatality

The Microsoft chatbot that turned racist and sexist

IV. Steps we can take to mitigate the risks of AI

Regulation of AI development and use

Investment in education and training for the jobs of the future

Collaboration between government, industry, and academia to address the ethical concerns surrounding AI

V. Conclusion

AI has the potential to bring many benefits to society, but it is important to be aware of and address the potential risks it poses. By taking proactive steps, we can ensure that AI is used responsibly and ethically, and that its benefits are enjoyed by all.

Perhaps ChatGPT shouldn't be so open about the dangers of AI, but that's another story!

The Limitations of ChatGPT

So far, I've been singing the praises of ChatGPT, but it's time to talk about the limitations.

Currently, when you log into ChatGPT, you see the following message:

You need to take this message seriously. ChatGPT, although incredibly powerful, is still in its testing phase.

Let me give you an example where I found it giving incorrect and unhelpful information.

The answer that it gave is unhelpful at best, and incorrect at worst. What am I meant to do with this information?

When asking ChatGPT to generate multiple choice questions, I occasionally found that there could be two possible answers.

So ChatGPT is not perfect. But then again, neither are teachers! I've known plenty of teachers to give incorrect information and misleading questions.

So, despite some issues, I do strongly advise using ChatGPT as a tool. I've started to use it with my own students, and they love it!

And remember how early GPS apps like Waze or Google Maps would often send you to the wrong place? But years later, they are much more dependable and rarely make mistakes.

That's because AI technologies learn and improve over time. I expect that within a short period of time, you'll find that ChatGPT and other similar technologies make far fewer mistakes than they do now.

For example, when I asked for fill-in-the-blank questions to test "advice" and "advise", some of the answers in the answer key were wrong. But when I tried again, about a week later, it gave me the correct answers!

What about cheating?

Many teachers are worried that students will use ChatGPT to cheat on their assignments. After all, it can write entire essays!

Well, at least one company has developed software to find out if a text was written by ChatGPT. So, I strongly advise students to use it as a tool and not a way to cheat!

Why I don't recommend chatting to ChatGPT

Perhaps the most obvious way to use ChatGPT is for conversation practice. After all, it is a CHAT bot.

However, you will not really get a realistic conversation with it. I'll show you why.

As you can see, ChatGPT can prompt further conversation with simple probing questions. But there is a part of the conversation where we want to turn the focus on the other person. When we do this, we get a very artificial and unrealistic response.

I tried one more time, asking ChatGPT to roleplay:

Oh, well, that didn't work, but it was fun trying!

Are AIs the Future?

When I was a kid, I dreamed of having an AI robot that I could ask to do things for me. For me, the future is now!

But AIs are still in their infancy. They're just getting started; just doing their warm-up exercises. They're like the Internet back in 1995 - not everyone could see the future possibilities.

I urge you as a student, English learner or teacher to embrace artificial intelligence with curiosity and explore the wonderful ways it can help you with language learning (and many other things, too)!

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How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your English

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Did you know that you can use artificial intelligence to help you learn English? No, it's not science fiction! It's real, it's free and you can begin using it today with our guide! Teachers, we have tips for you, too!