Watch a lesson, then look closer.
Ellie takes you through one lesson of the published programme, start to finish, in under a minute. Everything on the screen is the product running, and the phrases are the ones that lesson actually teaches.
41 seconds, sound on.
Your teacher is software, not a person. It has endless patience for the same mistake, and it is awake when you are.
It starts with a free assessment.
A conversation of about 15 minutes, where every turn asks a little more of you than the one before.
On the call
turn 5 of 5- A story from your pastnarrate
- An opinion with reasonsexplain
- A minute of a real lessonshowcase
- A what-ifspeculate
- Someone else's idea, retoldmediate
How much it asks of you
After the call
an example resultYour level is decided on five sides
- Range
- Accuracy
- Fluency
- Interaction
- Mediation
Slips weigh less than what you can do, because slips are what the course is for.
Where you land
12 partsThe programme runs from A2 to B2.
- A1No programme yet
- A2You start at B1
- B13 parts
- B1+3 parts
- B26 parts
If your first lesson puts you outside it, we say so instead of selling you a plan. You can move to another part later.
Take the free assessmentThen the lessons, in pairs.
Your part is a run of 20-minute lessons in pairs: each pair takes one topic, one form and one side of how English sounds.
The first pairs of General English · B1 · Part 1
- 1 · 2
Life experience: have you ever?
I've been to · I've never tried · Have you ever
Pronunciation: Sentence stress
- 3 · 4
Telling a story: what happened first
first · then · after that
Pronunciation: Intonation
- 5 · 6
Giving advice: what should I do?
you should · why don't you · if I were you
Pronunciation: Intonation
In every lesson, on the board
- The form goes up on the board while you talk.
- Exercises you finish yourself, with the tutor only nudging.
- The words you are after move up as you use them.
Pronunciation, aspect by aspect.
How you sound is scored on more than one side, always on the lesson's own phrases, and every attempt gets a number and a word.
Example verdicts on the lesson's phrases
- Sentence stresswhich word the phrase leans onI've been to a live performance88clean
- Word stresswhich syllable the word leans ongo to an exhibition74almost
- Intonationwhere the voice rises and fallsHave you ever explored a new city?83clean
- Words running togetherhow words link, and how the small ones go lightI've been to a tourist attraction46keep working
You get another go on the same phrase. The sounds themselves are checked on every attempt, and when one let you down, it is named.
Take the free assessmentWhat comes back, and when.
What you said and what you missed both travel forward into the lessons after this one.
- End of this lessonOne card names what moved
- Start of the nextThe phrases you never got round to saying
- A few lessons onThe same language, a new task
- At a checkpointOn your own, no prompting
Mistakes you keep making come back inside later exercises until they stop.
The schedule is written into the programme, position by position.
Checkpoints, where the helping stops.
Each half of a part ends with checkpoints: conversations that only ask you to use what you already have.
One half of a part
- 1 · 2
- 3 · 4
- 5 · 6
- 7putting it together
- 8
- 9
Lessons: learn it with the tutor's help
Checkpoints: use it on your own
No slide, no drill, no exercises on the board. At the end you get a debrief in plain words, with no marks and no new level.
Take the free assessmentThen the report lands.
A written page you keep after every lesson, built only from what actually happened in it.
B1
Life experience: have you ever?
Work on recurring slips
Coming back
He / she / it + -s
he go there oftenhe goes there often
What we fixed
A, an and the
a exhibitionan exhibition
Before a vowel sound it is an. · turn 14
Pronunciation
I've been to a live performance88% · clean
Words and phrases
- I've been to
- once
- I've never tried
- a live performance
- a concert at the stadium
- it was fascinating
When something keeps slipping, the lesson ends with homework on it, and the next lesson opens with it.
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