Tweet is an AI-powered platform that is designed specifically for teachers. I have been experimenting with the various AI features it offers and the platform really worth featuring here.
Twee offers access to numerous AI tools that cover the following categories: reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, and vocabulary. Using these tools will enable you to create interactive activities and engaging learning exercises from generating discussion questions, designing creative writing tasks, to developing grammar and vocabulary exercises.
Twee AI Tools for Teachers
The following is a quick overview of Twee’s powerful features, categorized into tools that support reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, and vocabulary.
1. AI Tools for Reading
The following are AI tools specifically designed to enhance reading comprehension. Most of these tools support three main sources: text you copy and paste, images with text, or website URLs.
- Create a Text on a Certain Topic with Target Vocabulary: This activity generates a text based on your chosen topic, incorporating specific target vocabulary. It’s perfect for use during lessons or as a homework assignment following a reading, listening, or vocabulary-focused session.
- Create open questions to the text: This activity generates a list of open-ended questions designed to assess students’ understanding of a given text. Use these questions to spark discussions and ensure comprehension.
- Create ABCD Questions for a Text with Only One Correct Answer: This activity generates multiple-choice questions (ABCD format) based on a given text, with only one correct answer for each question. It’s ideal for testing comprehension and reinforcing key concepts.
- Create True/False Statements Based on Your Text: This activity generates true/false statements derived from a given text. It’s a simple yet effective way to assess students’ understanding and comprehension of the material.
- Create Three Titles for a Text: This activity generates three titles for a given text—two incorrect and one accurate. It’s a great skimming exercise to help students quickly identify the main idea of the text.
- Simplify or Upgrade Your Text: This activity adjusts the complexity of a text based on your needs, either simplifying it for beginners or upgrading it for advanced learners. It’s perfect for tailoring materials to different proficiency levels.
2. AI Tools for Vocabulary
The following AI tools are designed to help you create engaging vocabulary activities for your lessons.
- Fill in the Gap: Simply paste in your text, highlight the piece of text that you want to turn into a gap and click on ‘Create gap’. Twee will turn it into a fill-in-the-gap activity.
- Word Definition Matching: This AI tool allows you to easily generate a matching activity for a list of words. For words that have multiple meanings, you can provide synonyms in brackets to make sure you get the definition you need.
- Create a list of sentences with your vocabulary: In this activity, you can create sentences using your target vocabulary, giving you a handy resource to use later with the “Fill in the Gap” tool. You can also include verb or tense forms to design engaging grammar tasks for your students.
- Essential Vocabulary on the Topic: This activity provides you with a list of key vocabulary items related to your chosen topic. Use these terms with other Twee tools to design diverse and engaging exercises for your lesson.
- Create Communicative Situations with Your Vocabulary: In this activity, you can generate short two-line dialogues featuring your target vocabulary. These examples help your students see how new words and phrases fit into everyday conversations.
- Word-Translation Matching: In this activity, you can translate words or phrases into various languages and create a matching exercise. It’s a great tool for introducing and reviewing vocabulary in bilingual classrooms.
- Rephrase Using the Word Given: This activity allows you to create exercises where students rewrite sentences using specific phrases provided. It’s perfect for reinforcing vocabulary usage and practicing grammar structures in context.
- Create an Exercise with Matching Halves: In this activity, you can design exercises where students match the halves of collocations, sentences, or phrases. It’s an effective way to practice or review grammar and vocabulary chunks.
3. AI Tools for Writing
The following AI tools can help enhance writing activities in your classroom.
- Find Quotes by Famous People on the Topic: This activity provides a curated list of quotes from famous individuals, ideal for sparking discussions, starting warm-ups, or inspiring essay topics.
- .Four Opinions: This activity generates four diverse opinions from random perspectives on a given topic. It’s an excellent way to help students explore different viewpoints and develop their skills in evaluating arguments.
- Link Words into Sentences: This activity encourages students to create unique sentences by logically connecting the given words. It’s versatile and can be used as either a writing or speaking exercise.
- Create a List of Essay Topics on a Given Subject: This activity generates a list of essay topics related to your chosen subject. It’s a great way to provide students with engaging writing tasks, perfect for classwork or homework assignments.
- Creative Writing with Target Vocabulary: This activity offers creative writing tasks that prompt students to use new vocabulary in context. Tasks include crafting social media posts, comments, emails, reviews, and more, making learning both engaging and practical.
4. AI Tools for Speaking
The following AI tools are specifically designed to enhance speaking activities in your lessons.
- Create a Dialogue on Any Topic: This activity generates a dialogue based on your chosen topic or text. It’s perfect for reading aloud or sparking discussions among your students.
- Warm-Up Discussion Questions Before Listening: This activity generates discussion questions to engage students before a listening task. These questions encourage them to share their opinions on the topic and relate it to their own experiences.
- Find Discussion Questions: This activity provides thought-provoking questions on a chosen topic. Use them as a warm-up or integrate them at any point in your lesson to spark meaningful discussions.
- Find Interesting Facts on a Given Topic: This activity generates 10 intriguing facts about your chosen topic. Use them as icebreakers, for true/false quizzes, or as engaging discussion starters.
- Create a List of Advantages and Disadvantages on the Given Topic: This activity generates a balanced list of pros and cons on your chosen topic, ideal for facilitating discussions, debates, or critical thinking exercises.
Watch this YouTube video I created explaining how to use Twee AI tools:
5. AI Tools for Grammar
Use these AI tools to make grammar practice more engaging and effective:
- Scramble the Words in Sentences: This activity jumbles the words in a sentence, challenging students to rearrange them correctly. It’s a fun way to practice word order, question formation, and grammar structures.
- Create an Exercise with Matching Halves: This activity helps you design exercises where students match the halves of collocations, phrases, or sentences. It’s an effective method to practice or review grammar and vocabulary chunks.
- Fill in the Gap: This activity replaces selected words in a text with blanks and provides a separate list of the missing words. It’s a great tool for practicing vocabulary and comprehension.
6. AI Tools for listening
Use these AI tools to make listening activities more interactive and impactful:
- Convert Audio & Video to Text: This activity generates transcripts from audio or video files, making them ready for classroom use. Simply upload your file (in formats like .mp4 or .mp3) or paste a YouTube link to get a text version.
- Audio & Video Question Creator: This activity lets you upload audio or video files and generate tailored questions, including open-ended, multiple-choice, or true/false formats, to enhance student engagement and comprehension.
- Choose the Right Summary: This activity generates three summaries for your audio or video—two incorrect and one accurate. Use it to assess students’ listening comprehension in an engaging way.
- Audio & Video Summary GapFill: This activity creates a listening exercise where students fill in the blanks in a summary of an audio or video. It’s an excellent way to practice listening comprehension and contextual understanding.
Final thoughts
As we have seen, Twee is a powerful AI platform that offers a wide variety of AI tools, especially those focused on literacy. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s as robust as the other AI tools I reviewed in the past (e.g., Eduaide, MagicSchool, Edcafe, Curipod), but it does bring its own unique strengths to the table. Twee’s tools are especially helpful for creating interactive and engaging activities across essential areas such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, and vocabulary.
