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.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and AI Warnings

I was reading an article about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on the BBC website Frankenstein: Why Mary Shelley's 200-year-old horror story is so misunderstood when I started to see a parallel between the fears in her time and in her novel about the dangers of science getting out of control and today's fears about the potential dangers of AI. 

So, obviously, I uploaded the article to NotebookLM and asked it to “trace the parallels between the dangers of Science depicted in *Frankenstein* and the fears associated with artificial intelligence (AI) today”. I then copied and pasted the reply as a source.

I then asked NotebookLM to make a video overview  based on this single source. As always, I was blown away by the resulting video.

The only creative part that was down to me was my seeing the parallels between the fears described in the article and the fears we read about every day and seeing that NotebookLM might produce something interesting, which it did!