6 min read
2025/09/23
Our latest Language Teaching Takeoff Webinar demonstrated how the YouTube-based content generator quickly and easily adapts videos into interactive, level-appropriate lesson materials. We also highlighted how the Glossary generator helps teachers create CEFR-aligned glossaries without compromising pedagogy.
Turn YouTube Content into Engaging Lesson Materials and Build Custom Glossaries with TeacherMatic
London, September 2025 – In the latest TeacherMatic Language Teaching Takeoff Webinar, ‘Create Engaging Materials from YouTube Content and Build Custom Glossaries’, award-winning educator and edtech consultant Nik Peachey demonstrated how teachers can adapt digital content into interactive classroom materials.
Moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager at Avallain, the session explored two practical generators within the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition: the YouTube-based content generator, which transforms videos into relevant and practical lesson resources, and the Glossary generator, which produces CEFR-aligned glossaries to personalise learning and strengthen vocabulary practice.
Insights from TeacherMatic’s Co-founder: Challenges Facing Language Teachers Today
Esam Baboukhan, TeacherMatic Marketing Director and co-founder, joined the webinar as a special guest for the first time to provide insight into the pressures facing teachers today. He highlighted that many educators work extended hours and face high turnover, affecting both teaching quality and student outcomes.
Esam emphasised the need for safe, accurate solutions that reduce preparation time without compromising pedagogical standards. He noted that the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition offers over 50 generators, grounded in established methodologies such as communicative language teaching, the lexical approach and task-based learning.
Fully aligned with CEFR levels, the AI toolkit is guided by a principled approach to CEFR alignment, developed in collaboration with NILE and CEFR expert Elaine Boyd. It is designed to help teachers maximise the impact of CEFR-aligned outputs and provide students with structured, meaningful language practice.
Generating CEFR-Aligned Materials from YouTube Videos
Building on the discussion of teacher challenges and the need for time-saving, pedagogically sound solutions, Nik Peachey demonstrated the YouTube-based content generator.
Designed to help teachers create CEFR-aligned classroom materials quickly, the tool allows users to input a video URL and select the appropriate language level. The generator produces a range of structured and adaptable resources, including video summaries, quizzes, lesson plans, worksheets, cloze transcript activities and vocabulary list activities.
Summaries and Transcripts Made Simple
Teachers can generate video summaries at any CEFR level and include the full transcript from the video. These transcripts can be refined and then exported in multiple formats, such as .docx, .doc and PDF or directly shared to Google Drive and Google Classroom. By adapting summaries from B1 to A1 level, Nik showed how easily the generator supports differentiated learning needs.
Quizzes for Lesson Warmers
The YouTube-based content generator can instantly create CEFR-aligned quizzes from a video, showing how quickly teachers can move from prospective content to classroom-ready material. Each quiz includes multiple-choice, True/False and gap-fill questions. Nik highlighted that these ready-made activities give teachers a time-saving resource that reinforces comprehension and critical thinking at the right level.
Structured Lesson Plans
Teachers can input details such as lesson length, CEFR skill and pedagogical model to generate complete lesson plans. In one example, Nik selected speaking with a task-based learning approach, producing a plan that flowed from pre-task to homework while staying closely tied to the video content. He later switched to a lexical approach, generating activities that placed vocabulary at the centre.
These examples underlined how the generator enables teachers to create structured, editable plans that reflect different teaching methodologies while saving significant preparation time.
Worksheets and Vocabulary Practice
Worksheets go beyond quizzes by supporting partner work, group activities and writing tasks across CEFR skills. Generate worksheets to extend classroom interaction and reinforce learning. Teachers can also create a vocabulary list with definitions, example sentences and targeted activities that keep lexical development central to the lesson.
As Nik highlighted: ‘Remembering to keep revising the lexical input with students is really important too. Working on students’ lexical powers and their vocabulary is one of the fastest ways to impact their learning.’
Cloze Transcript Activities
Finally, this AI generator can transform a video into cloze (gap-fill) activities that strengthen listening and comprehension. Teachers can fine-tune these activities by selecting transcript sections, adjusting the number of gaps and tailoring difficulty to different learner levels.
Custom Glossary Tool for Vocabulary Learning
The Glossary generator allows teachers to quickly generate topic-based, CEFR-aligned vocabulary lists enriched with cultural and contextual information. Nik showcased how easy it is to create a glossary, demonstrating options such as selecting the number of words, display format, CEFR level and topic. Teachers can also describe learner profiles to ensure content remains engaging and relevant, and include supporting materials like scripts or websites.
The tool enables teachers to tailor and adapt resources to individual students and learning needs, including Dyslexia or ADHD. Nik suggested using the generated glossary as a starting point for creative classroom activities, such as encouraging students to build a story around the vocabulary. Once created, glossaries can be exported in multiple formats.
Practical Tools Grounded in Classroom Needs
Nik demonstrated two practical tools in this session designed to address real classroom challenges without replacing the teacher. The YouTube-based content generator and Glossary generator are safe, ethical and pedagogically sound, supporting learners across various levels and needs. By putting learning outcomes first, these tools help teachers save time, deliver CEFR-aligned materials and create engaging, adaptable lessons while maintaining full control over content and methodology.
Explore the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition
The TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition provides a comprehensive suite of tools that empower educators to plan, create and deliver high-quality, differentiated language lessons and materials efficiently, while meeting the demands of diverse classroom contexts.
Next in the Webinar Series
Enhancing Speaking Lessons with CEFR-Aligned Effective Generators
🗓 Thursday, 16th October
🕛 12:00 – 12:30 BST | 13:00 – 13:30 CEST
Enhance the way you teach speaking in the next session. See the Dialogue Creator and Differing Opinions generators in action to boost student engagement and confidence, and explore the Debate and Discussion Topics generators to spark discussion and critical thinking in the classroom.
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TeacherMatic, a part of the Avallain Group since 2024, is a ready-to-go AI toolkit for teachers that saves hours of lesson preparation by using scores of AI generators to create flexible lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and more.
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