AI Teaching Skills: Enhancing Vocabulary Retention Through AI-Driven Games

Why This Workshop?

Teachers tell us the same three problems:

• Students forget new words as soon as class ends.
• Traditional gap-fills & flashcards feel like dull homework.
• AI sounds promising, but setting it up takes too long.

This session fixes all three by giving you ready-to-run AI games that recycle meaning, form and collocation—no coding, no stress.

What You’ll Be Able to Do

After the workshop you can…

1. Run AI Games: launch “Odd One Out” and “L1→L2 Flashcards” from any word list.
2. Adjust Difficulty: tweak prompts instantly for A1–C1 or younger/older learners.
3. Build a Custom GPT: create a share-link students use without seeing your prompts.
4. Boost Retrieval: embed retrieval, spacing & variation into every round.
5. Track Engagement: collect student scores & reflections via quick in-tool checks.

Outcomes

• I can create my own vocabulary games in ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude.
• I can adapt each game for level, age and exam focus.
• I can give students a QR link to a custom GPT for self-study practice.

Who Should Attend?

• Primary & secondary English teachers (young learners to adults, CEFR A1–C1)
• IELTS / DET / GESE / ISE / KET / PET / DSE prep teachers
• University EAP tutors
• Anyone who assigns word lists and wants students to use them!

Workshop Details:

🗓 Date & Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm (HKT), Monday 13 October

🎟 Price: HK$200

🎓 Certificate: Digital certificate for 1.5 PD hours included

Bonuses

• Slides PDF
• AI Prompt Cheat-Sheet

Agenda Snapshot

0–10 min Why retrieval & variation beat rote learning

10–20 min Live build: Odd One Out from your word list

20–35 min Participants create & play their own round

35–55 min Live build: L1 → L2 Flashcards + level tweaks

55–70 min Design your student GPT (guardrails + share link)

70–80 min Micro-teach: volunteers run a 1-min game

80–90 min Open Q&A, next steps, resources

Ready to Make Vocabulary Stick?

Swap boring drills for addictive AI games and watch word recall skyrocket. Seats are limited—grab yours now!

Questions? Contact Ryan or Christina at events@englishforasia.com

This workshop is a supplemtary session from the popular online course AI for Language Teaching.

"Since joining the AI course I've saved at least 2 hours every week on my lesson planning and prep. I love Ross's workshops, they are clear, easy to follow and very practical for my teaching." - J. Wong (Hong Kong)

"I thought using AI would be daunting as I'm not a techy person. But after joining the course, I've been able to use AI to help plan lessons, design activities, and even make pictures for my lessons." - Matilda (Hong Kong)

For the best experience, attendees should have:

• a computer or ipad style device (a phone will also work)

• stable internet access

• a headset with microphone
• a webcam

Trainer: Ross Thorburn

Ross Thorburn began teaching in 2006 in central China, working with students of all ages before moving into teacher training. He specialises in technology in education and writes regularly about language teaching, assessment, and AI. He is the author of Inside Online Language Teaching and host of the TEFL Training Institute Podcast. He's passionate about showing teachers how AI can make teaching and learning more effective, engaging and accessable. Ross is a tutor on the online course AI for Language Teaching.