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Amazing talk! I got inspired!! Thanks Dorothy and Kath. I'just bought 'Literature with a Small 'l'. I was lucky to get it! 😊

Dorothy Zemach is the best public speaker I have ever seen at a conference.

Totally agree that those who spend their days staring at a screen like to rest their eyes on print, great business sense and knowing your market! What happened to those teachers after the weekend writing books? Did they get re-hired? Hope so! Brilliant idea that reminds me of something Kath said a couple weeks ago about the power of teachers collaborating! 💪

Very interesting. Would Dorothy be able to share the name of the program she said she uses that helps with the formatting?

Very effective

The exercise: Introduce yourself: Match questions to answers... shouldn't questions be on the left instead of the right? If the idea is that one asks the other answers...Isn't it misleading? Great ideas!!

Hi John Thanks for this. You need to set the context first. For example, "I am an English as a Second Language materials writer for students at the B1 CEFR level. I would like you to help me create materials." This creates the parameters for ChatGPT to operate under. Creating this prompt will increase the likelihood that ChatGPT will produce more accurate output. You need to prime it as you would with any job brief.

Congratulations Sandy for a huge amount of research and work that is going to help many language materials writers. I have downloaded it and this video was very helpful as well.

Excellent resource! Great work, Sandy!

We advise you to download Sandy's framework and refer to it while watching from here: bit.ly/materialsframework

Interesting video - very useful. Some of the issues raised are similar to those we consider in EAP (balancing topic, language, communication). Needs analysis is so important too. On the subject of business vocabulary, the idea of lexical-driven content resonated with me a lot. A query: is there a Business English equivalent of the Academic Word List (AWL) - with business vocab divided up into sublists according to frequency? = high-frequency lexis applicable in most business settings such as 'profit', 'supervise', etc. at one, through to less frequent more context-specific items at the other?

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Thanks for the video! Useful and very clear!

Thank you very much for this whole playlist! I'm learning a lot from your videos.

very useful indeed, thanks!

Thanks for sharing the perspective from your field. I am in Tech and it's nice to see the impact of ChatGPT in other areas and how you are using the tool. I do have some general thoughts on AI. I feel we are always missing the main point of chat GPT and the democratisation of AI. Currently, it's all in private hands. We do not have power over the tools as we are the product, currently. Chat GPT is a general-purpose trained AI and it is incredible as well as monumental in its scope and power, but it's general. Training is the keyword we are glossing over when speaking of ChatGPT or the power behind this model. Who are the trainers? How accessible can we make training your own AI? With specific parameters (rules?) and data. Currently, ChatGPT works on 175B parameters. The next Iteration is deemed claimed to work with 100T - that's T for Trillion. We are in the infancy of all of this and already getting to numbers that sound outright ridiculous. Enough time and enough progress in making training easier so it's relatively accessible for those who wish to pursue it and have the capacity, there will be models for almost every single endeavour we undertake in society. Not general but specific, precise and with incredible depth. Say just 3 iterations down the line, with enough access so people can build their own models, trained with the data specific to their area, I dare say you could make writing models that far surpass the best writers. If you want to see a demonstration of a purpose-built AI just look at the older and weaker generations of AI learning games such as League of Legends and Chess and Go. Only the absolute grandmasters could even compete... and eventually be defeated. The best humans in that field. If we do not democratise access, I don't mean just use AI owned by a monopoly of a few giant tech companies as is currently the trend, there will be no competition. Only servitude. Anyways, thanks for the upload!

In the video, I check the CEFR level of a text and vocabulary using textinspector.com

Here's the link to ChatGPT openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

Charlie's lessons also has a good introductory video on this for teachers to use in class charlieslessons.com/chatgpt-ideas-for-esl-teachers/

Thanks for sharing

A lovely video and I’ve always wondered how I could create such crosswords.

Congratulations! Great logo too - very minimalistic and effective. Looking forward to the course.

Once the crossword is created, can it be downloaded to use in a worksheet or embedded in a website?

Interesting topic and looking forward to seeing more of you and your brilliant ideas

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Really happy that you have talked about this topic! I have talked to Katherine about starting a course to those who are into materials writing ✍️ 🙂 ☺️

This is very useful. Looking forward to further videos on grading and rewriting texts for different levels. It is interesting that a lot of business English courses like "Business Result" include focus vocabulary which is more difficult than the level of the book. In other words, a percentage of the contents is allowed to be above the graded level. These are most often key business words. This makes business English content a lot more challanging than general English.