The most well-known AI assistant and probably the easiest to start with. It is excellent at open-ended conversation and instant grammar feedback in plain language.

• Voice mode — have natural spoken conversations to practise pronunciation and listening.
• Role-play — ask it to be an interviewer, waiter, doctor, or customer.
• Image input — photograph a menu or sign and ask what it means.
• Custom GPTs — reusable tutors built for IELTS, TOEFL, business English, etc.

Gemini’s biggest advantage is how it connects to the rest of Google. Ask about a word and you will often get definitions, related YouTube videos at your level, and authentic example sentences from across the web.

• Search grounding — answers backed by real web sources.
• YouTube integration — suggest videos & summarise them.
• Multilingual — strong translations and side-by-side comparisons.
• Gems — build a custom tutor (e.g. “B2 partner that corrects only 3 mistakes per turn”).

Claude tends to give the most thoughtful explanations of grammar and meaning, and is less likely to confidently give wrong answers — important when you are a beginner who cannot easily spot mistakes.

• Long texts — paste an article and ask for a simpler version, vocabulary list, or comprehension questions.
• Careful tone — patient, structured grammar explanations.
• Projects — keep your textbook excerpts in one place and Claude remembers your level.
• Artifacts — build mini interactive practice exercises inside the chat.

Fast for the bulk of preparation work. Lesson plans, comprehension worksheets, role-play scripts, gap-fill exercises, and quizzes are produced in seconds and easy to refine.

• Custom GPTs — build a reusable class tutor and share a link with students.
• Image generation — visual prompts for storytelling tasks.
• Big ecosystem — lots of teacher templates online and active communities.
• Canvas mode — collaborate on a worksheet side-by-side.

The path of least resistance if your school uses Google. It lives inside Docs, Slides, Forms, and Classroom, so handouts and slide decks can be drafted without copy-pasting between tools.

• Multimodal — photograph a student’s handwriting and ask Gemini to mark it.
• Video — summarise YouTube videos into discussion questions.
• Forms / Classroom — auto-generate quizzes and feedback.
• Gemini for Education — school-grade privacy & admin controls.

Claude shines on the slow, careful tasks. It writes substantive feedback on student essays (not just “good job!”) and is excellent at adapting authentic texts to a target level while keeping the meaning intact.

• Level adaptation — rewrite a B2 article for an A2 reader, or vice-versa.
• Long context — paste a class set of essays and ask for patterns.
• Sensitive topics — well-reasoned around current affairs, mental health, culture.
• Projects — keep curriculum & rubrics on hand for consistent marking.

A safe default when you need a quick, capable assistant for many office tasks: emails, summaries, presentations, brainstorming, and translation between many languages.

• Image generation — quick illustrations for slides & social posts.
• Custom GPTs — agents trained for contracts, market research, etc.
• Data analysis — upload a CSV and ask for charts.
• Wide language support — strong in dozens of languages.

Inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Meet, Gemini is the easiest path if your business runs on Google. Strong on very long documents — feed it a 200-page contract or report and ask for the key points.

• Meet — live notes & action items during calls.
• Sheets — pull figures and turn them into charts on request.
• Workspace search — ask about your own emails & files.
• Massive context — up to 1M tokens for huge documents.

Often the strongest at polished business writing — emails that sound professional, reports that read naturally, careful rewrites that preserve your meaning while changing the tone.

• Style guides — follows a detailed brand voice well.
• Projects — keep brand & product context in one workspace.
• Artifacts — build small training quizzes & demos inline.
• Tone control — ask for “warmer”, “firmer”, “shorter” — it actually changes.