Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Can Gemini act as a supportive personal tutor? Vocabulary Workshop page of "Feel English"

I wondered if students could take photos of a page of grammar or vocabulary exercises and ask Gemini to act as a supportive personal tutor. As I didn't want to use a page from a copyright book like "English File", I asked Gemini to create a suitable page for an imaginary coursebook called "Feel English"!

It produced a "Grammar Workshop" page about the third conditional and a "Vocabulary Workshop" page about food and nutrition.

I tried asking Gemini to design a suitable prompt, but that didn't work well, so I ended up uploading the page below to Gemini and then writing, but it would have been better to have used Voice on my Android phone to say, "Can you act as a supportive personal tutor and go through the material on the page showing me how to pronounce the words and asking me to do the exercises and providing hints to help me get the answers right?"

Here is the "Vocabulary Workshop" page and below an extract from the screen recording I made on my mobile phone.

Page 2: Vocabulary Workshop

Level: B1 | Topic: Food & Nutrition

Visual Dictionary: In the Kitchen

Item

British English

Phonemic Script

🥦

Broccoli

/ˈbrɒkəli/

🍆

Aubergine

/ˈəʊbəʒiːn/

🥒

Courgette

/kɔːˈʒet/

🥬

Lettuce

/ˈletɪs/

🍐

Pear

/peə(r)/

🍍

Pineapple

/ˈpaɪnæpl/

🧄

Garlic

/ˈɡɑːlɪk/

🍗

Poultry

/ˈʊltri/

Exercises

Exercise 1: Odd One Out. Circle the word that doesn't fit the category.

  1. Pear — Pineapple — Garlic — Courgette
  2. Aubergine — Poultry — Lettuce — Broccoli
  3. Beef — Lamb — Chicken — Pineapple

Exercise 2: Fill in the blanks with the correct food word.

  1. I’m going to make a salad, so I need to buy some crisp green ________.
  2. In America, they call an ________ an "eggplant."
  3. You should add a clove of ________ to the sauce to give it more flavour.



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