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Does DrillKit support Zoom chats?

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Can I export lessons to PDF?

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Which languages are supported?

DrillKit supports translations in 11 languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, and Russian. The AI auto-detects the student's native language from the chat transcript.

What exercise types can DrillKit generate?

DrillKit generates 11 exercise types: Gap Fill, Vocab Match, Error Correction, Sentence Completion, Multiple Choice, Word Scramble, Sentence Reorder, Translation, Word Formation (Cambridge Part 3), Key Word Transformation (Cambridge Part 4), and Dialogue Builder.

How does the AI extract vocabulary from chat transcripts?

The AI scans your pasted chat transcript, strips out noise (timestamps, reactions, media placeholders), identifies teachable vocabulary, phrasal verbs, idioms, and student errors, then scores each item by relevance. You review and select the best items before generating exercises.

Is DrillKit free to use?

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Can I customize the lesson with my school branding?

Pro users can add their school or institution name, choose custom accent colors, select from 5 lesson styles (Standard, Classic, Modern, Playful, Academic), and add footer text to every generated lesson.

Teaching Verb Patterns in ESL: Make, Let, Allow, Force & More

The Arbitrariness Students Hate

Make and force both mean 'compel someone to do something.' But: 'She made me CLEAN my room' (bare infinitive — no 'to'). 'She forced me TO CLEAN my room' (to-infinitive). WHY? There's no logical reason. It's a lexical property of the verb — each verb simply 'selects' a particular pattern, and students must learn which verbs take which patterns. This is one of the areas of English grammar where there genuinely is no rule — only memorization. But the good news is that the most common verb patterns involve a relatively small number of high-frequency verbs, making the learning load manageable.

The Key Verb Patterns

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Make / Let + Object + Bare Infinitive

'She MADE me WAIT.' 'He LET me GO.' No 'to' before the verb. These are the only two common verbs with this pattern. PASSIVE changes it: 'I was MADE TO wait' (the 'to' reappears in passive!). Let has no standard passive — we use 'allowed' instead.

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Allow / Permit / Force / Encourage + Object + To-Infinitive

'They ALLOWED me TO leave.' 'She FORCED him TO sign.' 'The teacher ENCOURAGED us TO speak.' Most causative verbs follow this pattern: advise, ask, convince, expect, invite, order, persuade, remind, teach, tell, want, warn.

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Help + Object + (To) Infinitive

'She helped me (TO) carry the bags.' Both forms are correct — 'help' uniquely accepts either pattern. American English prefers the bare infinitive ('helped me carry'). British English accepts both. This is the one verb where students can't get it wrong!

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Teacher Tip

“Active: 'The teacher MADE the students REPEAT the exercise.' Passive: 'The students WERE MADE TO REPEAT the exercise.' The 'to' that disappears in active reappears in passive. This is testable and tested — it appears in Cambridge B2 First, IELTS, and university grammar exams. Drill the transformation: give students active 'make' sentences and have them convert to passive. 'My parents made me study' → 'I was made to study by my parents.' This single transformation drill teaches both the pattern and the passive voice simultaneously.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is it 'make me do' but 'force me to do'?

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There is no logical reason. Each verb lexically selects its own complement pattern. 'Make' and 'let' take bare infinitives (no 'to'). Most other causative/permission verbs (allow, force, encourage, permit) take to-infinitives. This must be memorized as a vocabulary property of each verb.

What is the difference between make and let?

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'Make' implies obligation/compulsion: 'She made me clean my room' (I didn't want to). 'Let' implies permission: 'She let me stay up late' (I wanted to and she allowed it). Same grammar pattern (+ object + bare infinitive) but opposite meanings: compulsion vs permission.

How do I teach verb patterns in ESL?

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Group verbs by pattern: make/let + bare infinitive, most others + to-infinitive. Teach the most common verbs in each group with example sentences. Practice with transformation exercises (active to passive for 'make'). At B2+, introduce the full range of reporting verbs with their patterns.

Make, Let, Allow, Force: Verb Patterns That Follow Their Own Rules