The latest Language Teaching Takeoff Webinar showcased four powerful TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition generators that can transform speaking lessons and foster confident, capable communicators.

Develop Empowered Communicative Learners with Safe and Accurate AI Tools

London, October 2025 – In last week’s webinar, ‘Enhancing Speaking Lessons with CEFR-Aligned Effective Generators’, we explored how teachers can use safe and accurate AI tools to help students engage, express ideas, think critically and build confidence in speaking. Pedagogy expert and award-winning educator Nik Peachey demonstrated how the generators can be filtered by skill, selecting ‘Speaking’ to highlight key tools suitable for developing speaking activities. He then guided participants through four effective generators: Dialogue Creator, Differing Opinions, Debate and Discussion Topics. 

Moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager at Avallain, the session illustrated how these AI generators can transform lessons into interactive, thought-provoking experiences.

Formal vs Informal Speaking Practice

As learners develop their speaking skills, it’s essential to help them adapt to diverse speaking contexts, which is key to building confident communicators. Nik firstly highlighted the importance of formal and informal practice with the Discussion Topics and Debate generators. 

The Discussion Topics generator creates stimulating, level-appropriate conversations. It produces meaningful and engaging discussions for learners at any level, whether A1 or C1. Teachers can include optional supporting materials to tailor activities to students’ current knowledge, creating relevant and interactive interactions.

For more structured interactions, the Debate generator creates authentic, formal debate scenarios. Students can practise precise language and persuasive techniques while gaining confidence in presenting their ideas in a formal setting.

Combine Reading and Speaking

Building on the effective Debate and Discussion Topics generators, which enable teachers to create meaningful, level-appropriate speaking activities, Nik Peachey then introduced and demonstrated the Differing Opinions generator.

Designed to bridge reading and speaking, this generator enables teachers to create activities encouraging learners to analyse viewpoints, express ideas and engage in structured, reflective discussions. By producing balanced arguments on any chosen topic, it empowers students to develop both reasoning and communication skills, leading to richer classroom interactions and deeper engagement with language.

Developing Confident Opinions

The Differing Opinions generator allows teachers to generate multiple perspectives on a single topic, which students can read, compare and respond to. This creates opportunities for learners to evaluate ideas, express agreement or disagreement and justify their opinions using targeted language. The exercise builds confidence in articulating thoughts and helps students develop persuasive and analytical language skills in a supportive classroom setting.

Task-Based Learning

Nik demonstrated how the generator can be integrated into task-based learning. Learners can read a set of opinions, discuss them in groups, record their responses and later reflect on how they expressed themselves. This process reinforces fluency, encourages critical thinking and helps students refine their communication skills through repetition and reflection. Teachers can regenerate or adapt results to better suit different learning levels, and keep activities dynamic and relevant.

Context-Based Dialogue

Continuing the focus on developing authentic speaking skills, Nik introduced the Dialogue Creator generator. Designed to imitate real communication, it allows teachers to produce natural conversations based on specific contexts, vocabulary and CEFR levels. By tailoring prompts and length, educators can generate dialogues that mirror realistic scenarios, helping learners practise fluency, pronunciation and interaction in a safe environment.

Nik discussed how to get the best out of this generator by using it for controlled speaking practice, exploring nuances in language use, building dialogues and producing localised results.

Controlled Practice

The Dialogue Creator produces ready-to-use scripts that help students refine pronunciation, rhythm and natural flow, gradually gaining confidence in real communication. Teachers can also generate listening versions so learners can identify intonation and stress patterns within authentic exchanges.

Nuances in Speaking the Language

Learners can bring these dialogues to life through dramatic or calm readings, encouraging expression and emotional depth. This approach helps students recognise subtle differences in tone, register and emphasis, developing awareness of how meaning shifts through delivery.

Dialogue-Build Exercises

To make activities more interactive, Nik suggested adapting generated dialogues into dialogue-building exercises by removing selected words or phrases. This technique encourages learners to recall vocabulary, complete sentences in context and reinforce language retention through repetition.

Produce Localised Results

Adding supporting materials or regional references allows teachers to generate localised dialogues that reflect cultural and linguistic nuances. These realistic contexts make lessons more relevant and help learners connect language with authentic, everyday communication.

Foster Confident, Capable Communicators in Your Classroom 

Speaking is one of the most rewarding aspects of learning a language for both the student and teacher. Nik’s demonstration of the Discussion Topics, Debate, Differing Opinions and Dialogue Creator generators showcases how the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition provides teachers with reliable, CEFR-aligned tools. By streamlining the creation of tailored speaking activities, these AI tools allow educators to focus on facilitating learning, while students develop into articulate, confident and critically engaged communicators.

Explore the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition

The TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition provides a comprehensive suite of tools that empower educators to design, create and deliver high-quality, differentiated speaking lessons efficiently. It uses CEFR-aligned generators to support meaningful, engaging practice across diverse teaching contexts.

Next in the Webinar Series

Beyond the Classroom: Empowering Every Role in Language Education

 🗓 Thursday, 13th November
🕛 12:00 – 12:30 GMT | 13:00 – 13:30 CET

In the next Language Teaching Takeoff webinar, discover generators specifically designed for leaders and administrators. Learn how to streamline planning, support staff and maintain high-quality CEFR-aligned language programmes across your institution.

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About Avallain

For more than two decades, Avallain has enabled publishers, institutions and educators to create and deliver world-class digital education products and programmes. Our award-winning solutions include Avallain Author, an AI-powered authoring tool, Avallain Magnet, a peerless LMS with integrated AI, and TeacherMatic, a ready-to-use AI toolkit created for and refined by educators.

Our technology meets the highest standards with accessibility and human-centred design at its core. Through Avallain Intelligence, our framework for the responsible use of AI in education, we empower our clients to unlock AI’s full potential, applied ethically and safely. Avallain is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified and a participant in the United Nations Global Compact.

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