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  Hello everyone again!! Dear blog readers, this time I will be talking about our teaching material for ELT class that we prepared with İrem Zehra, which is blended with AI feedback. I want to start by saying that in this material, which we designed for EFL high school prep students, we chose a writing task for them. Our topic is for students to imagine themselves as fashion influencers and write posts for their pages about a brand's new collection. In light of this, they will also use AI tools like ChatGPT to request feedback on their writing (with prompts given by the teacher), and they will revise their writing based on this feedback. The process of preparing the material was very fun, and we thought the topic was engaging for the students. We believe that the integration of both new technologies and social media with our material will draw attention to teaching that is compatible with today's students. *You can access the first draft of our material and ASSURE plan here. Fi...

Must vs. Have to: Let's Explore the Differences! Hello, my dear readers! Today, I would like to tell you about the teaching material I designed with my groupmates, Beyza and Aslı . Our material is supported by Corpus and AI to teach 10th-grade students the differences between ‘’must’’ and ‘’have to’. Our goal is to help them discover the subtle differences between these two expressions. Our process begins with a "Test Your Knowledge" section, where students demonstrate their prior knowledge with a fill-in-the-blank activity. Then, we introduce them to CorpusMate to have them find three examples of "must" and three examples of "have to." They encounter ‘’discovery table’’ that allows them to compare these sentences and identify the rules themselves. In the next section, students use ChatGPT. They compare the corpus examples they discovered with the examples they received from ChatGPT, discussing the output produced by the two resources. In the next ste...