English
This subject develops command of the English language system: grammar for precise relationships, vocabulary for exact meaning, pronunciation for intelligibility, and the ability to understand and produce connected speech and writing. The concrete outcome is independent English use in daily life, work, and presentations; an IELTS result may measure progress but does not define the curriculum.
- created
- 31 Aug 2026
- status
- active
- lessons
- 18
- references
- 5
Success looks like
- Build statements, negatives, questions, and commands with reliable English word order and auxiliaries
- Choose tense and aspect to express present, past, completion, duration, sequence, and future meaning
- Control countability, articles, quantifiers, pronouns, and subject-verb agreement
- Express certainty, possibility, obligation, advice, politeness, conditions, and imagined alternatives
- Combine and reduce clauses to express cause, contrast, purpose, condition, and relative information
- Use common verb patterns, dependent prepositions, and phrasal verbs without translating word by word
- Grow vocabulary through word families, collocations, connotation, register, and repeated retrieval
- Paraphrase accurately and connect ideas through reference, substitution, repetition, and linking expressions
- Speak intelligibly using word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, thought groups, and connected speech
- Hear both meaning and grammatical form in extended standard speech
- Sustain and repair daily and professional conversations with flexible language
- Write coherent paragraphs, concise professional messages, and structured explanations or presentations
- Diagnose recurring language gaps from real output and maintain a spaced, interleaved practice system
Constraints
- Six-month path from a self-reported intermediate starting point, moving from B1 control toward broad B2 independence
- Balanced attention to speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Default practice load of five 30-minute sessions each week, adjustable after baseline evidence
- Lessons use international English; intelligibility matters more than copying one accent
- Grammar and vocabulary claims link to high-trust references in RESOURCES.md
Out of scope
- Accent elimination or imitation of a single native variety
- IELTS task strategy, memorised scripts, answer banks, or score-gaming tricks
- Exhaustive grammatical terminology without communicative use
- Specialist literary analysis and advanced linguistics
- English below intermediate level unless baseline evidence shows a prerequisite gap
Journey
- 1Build a language baselineExpose recurring grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and comprehension gaps12 min
- 2Run the sentence engineBuild statements, negatives, questions, and commands with correct word order45 min
- 3Express present timeChoose present simple or continuous from meaning, not keywords45 min
- 4Tell past eventsUse past simple, continuous, and perfect to order a narrative45 min
- 5Connect past and presentDistinguish finished past from present relevance and duration45 min
- 6Express future meaningChoose will, going to, present continuous, or present simple by function45 min
- 7Control nouns and articlesChoose countability, articles, quantifiers, and agreement accurately45 min
- 8Show stance with modalityExpress certainty, possibility, obligation, advice, and politeness50 min
- 9Reason with conditionalsBuild real, imagined, past, and mixed conditions from time and reality50 min
- 10Expand and connect clausesAdd relative information, cause, contrast, purpose, and condition55 min
- 11Master verb partnershipsControl infinitives, gerunds, dependent prepositions, and phrasal verbs55 min
- 12Build vocabulary networksLearn word families, collocations, connotation, and register as connected units60 min
- 13Paraphrase and connect ideasPreserve meaning while changing form and building cohesion55 min
- 14Shape intelligible speechUse stress, rhythm, thought groups, weak forms, and linking55 min
- 15Hear form and meaningReconstruct reduced grammar and vocabulary from connected speech60 min
- 16Sustain and repair conversationExtend turns, clarify, paraphrase, and recover from missing language55 min
- 17Write and present clearlyOrganise paragraphs and spoken explanations around one controlling idea60 min
- 18Integrate and keep growingDiagnose output, interleave practice, and measure real communicative growth60 min