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Task language demand checker
Paste a task or text. Get the words and sentence types that may block students still learning English.
Task language demand checker is a free AI skill for the job "Teach and train people". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · CC BY SA 4.0 licence · Made by Gareth Manning
Made by Gareth Manning. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
A list of the words, phrases and sentence types in a task that may stop students who are still learning English, before they ever get to the subject itself. You can then support the language and keep the thinking hard. The skill reads the task through the lens of everyday versus academic language. It flags abstract nouns, passive voice, long nested sentences, command verbs such as justify or evaluate, and subject terms with no context. It rates the demand for your year group. For each barrier it suggests a support, such as a sentence starter, a word bank or a visual. It does not lower the task.
You give it
- The task or text
- Year group
- Subject
- Student English level (optional)
You get
- A list of word and sentence barriers
- A language demand rating
- Suggested supports for each barrier
- Words to pre-teach
Use it when
- A multilingual student fails a task you know they understand.
- You are planning a unit and want to find the hardest wording early.
- You need to decide what to pre-teach before a lesson.
- An exam question uses wording students rarely meet.
- You want to compare two texts and pick the more accessible one.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.