The first Language Teaching Takeoff Webinar of the year welcomed AI in education specialist and freelance teacher trainer Joanna Szoke, who explored how teachers can use the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition to create dynamic, engaging exam practice.
Make Exam Preparation More Engaging and Effective
London, January 2026 – In ‘Create Dynamic and Engaging Exam Practice for Your Students’, Joanna discussed assessment and feedback. She demonstrated how teachers can use the ‘Cambridge Style Exam Prep Generator’ and ‘Worksheet’ generator to produce targeted materials for learners preparing for high-pressure assessments.
Moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager at Avallain, the session reinforced the importance of moving beyond assessment as simply a grade, positioning it instead as an opportunity to support learner progress and give teachers clearer insight into what to reinforce and revisit.
Assessment and Feedback
Joanna began by emphasising the close relationship between assessment and feedback, describing them as a continuous cycle rather than separate classroom tasks. When assessment is used as an ongoing process, it becomes a practical way to identify what learners understand, where they need further support and how teachers can adapt to meet those needs.
Rather than treating assessment as an endpoint, Joanna encouraged teachers to use it as a guide to strengthen learner progress and to ensure that feedback remains purposeful and actionable.
Exam English vs Real-Life English
Exam preparation can easily become focused on format and technique, but meaningful practice also needs to develop transferable communication skills. Joanna stressed the importance of connecting exam tasks to real-life language use. By making this connection, teachers ensure that learners can apply what they practise beyond the assessment setting.
Joanna explained how exam-style activities can be adapted to reflect authentic contexts and learner interests, keeping preparation engaging while still targeting the specific demands of the assessment. This approach supports both exam readiness and broader language development without compromising either.
Cambridge-Style Exam Practice in Action
To bring these ideas into a practical teaching context, Joanna demonstrated the ‘Cambridge Style Exam Prep Generator’ and how language educators can use it to create practice tasks aligned with Cambridge English levels A2 Key, B1 Preliminary, B2 First and C1 Advanced. Depending on the level selected, the generator supports different paper formats, including Reading and Writing at A2 Key, Reading at B1 Preliminary and Reading and Use of English at both B2 First and C1 Advanced.
Joanna highlighted how quickly teachers can generate exam-style materials, then refine them to suit their learners and classroom context. Teachers can adjust the topic, language focus or task demands to create more relevant practice and keep preparation adaptable. She also emphasised that these materials are intended solely for practice. Teachers should use them alongside official past papers and published exam preparation resources, with teacher review and adaptation remaining essential.
Flexible Worksheets for Targeted Practice
To build level-appropriate practice materials that can be adapted to different teaching contexts, Joanna also showcased the ‘Worksheet’ generator. Worksheets are a reliable format for reinforcing learning and checking understanding, particularly during assessment preparation.
The demonstration highlighted how teachers can generate worksheets on almost any topic, select activity types and adjust outputs to reflect learner profiles and specific needs. Teachers can also refine results further, remove suggested answers where appropriate and export content into editable formats for layout changes and added visuals. This flexibility makes it easier to create engaging, targeted practice while keeping teacher review and adaptation central.
Supporting Confident Exam Preparation
Effective exam preparation is not only about measuring performance. It is also an opportunity to strengthen learning through purposeful assessment, timely feedback and targeted practice that reflects real assessment demands.
With CEFR alignment built into the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition, teachers can generate level-appropriate materials that support structured preparation and classroom needs. By combining tools such as the ‘Cambridge Style Exam Prep Generator’ and the ‘Worksheet’ generator with professional judgement and refinement, teachers can create engaging practice that supports learner confidence and readiness when it matters most.
Explore the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition
Built for language teaching, the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition enables teachers to create CEFR-aligned materials for exam preparation, assessment, classroom practice and more, with flexibility to refine outputs for different learners and contexts.
Next in the Webinar Series
Plan Smarter and Teach with Confidence
🗓 Thursday, 12th February
🕛 12:00 – 12:30 GMT | 13:00 – 13:30 CET
Join award-winning educator Nik Peachey as he demonstrates how to use planning generators in the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition. See AI tools such as the ‘Scheme of Work/Curriculum Plan’ generator, which are designed to support teachers, academic managers and directors of studies in reducing repetitive preparation and creating structures that can be adapted to any teaching context.
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.
_
Contact:
Daniel Seuling
VP Client Relations & Marketing
