Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Can Gemini act as a supportive personal tutor? Grammar 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 saying, "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 Grammar Workshop page followed by a screen recording of me using Gemini on my iPad:

Page 1: Grammar Workshop

Level: B1 | Topic: The Third Conditional (Regrets and Past Hypotheticals)

Presentation: The Third Conditional

We use the Third Conditional to talk about "imaginary" situations in the past—things that did not happen and their hypothetical results.

Condition (If-Clause)

Result (Main Clause)

If + Past Perfect

would have + Past Participle

If I had studied harder,

I would have passed the exam.

If they hadn't missed the bus,

they would have arrived on time.

Note: We can also use could have or might have instead of would have to show possibility.

Exercises

Exercise 1: Match the sentence halves.

  1. If I had known it was your birthday...
  2. We wouldn't have gotten lost...
  3. If the weather had been better...
  4. She could have won the race...
  • A. ...if she hadn't tripped near the finish line.
  • B. ...we would have gone to the beach.
  • C. ...I would have bought you a gift.
  • D. ...if we had used the GPS.

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

  1. If you ________ (tell) me the truth, I wouldn't have been so angry.
  2. They ________ (save) more money if they hadn't eaten out every night.
  3. If he ________ (not/fall) asleep, he wouldn't have burned the dinner.


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