Real business cases, true stories from history, great films and everyday role plays. Learn the words that unlock each one — then do the one thing that actually builds fluency: talk about it. Every lesson is free, and pitched at your level.
English for your career: real business cases, boardroom and trade-fair skills, strategy and structured thinking, aviation English, and the language of senior communication.
Real business cases, boardroom skills and the language of senior communication.
Nokia, Kodak, Lego, Dieselgate, WeWork, Novo Nordisk — true cases, each a C1 class with one executive grammar focus.
Open the boardroom →Six kinds of question, from Should we…? to Is it right…?, with the thinking tools and real cases for each. A mind map to explore, and seven lessons to go deeper.
Open the map →For study and tests: one clear route through IELTS, plus Cambridge, Duolingo, IB, A-level and academic writing.
One clear route for IELTS, plus Cambridge, Duolingo and aviation English.
Learn for life: stories, history and film to read, conversations to have, every grammar point, and a gentle start for beginners.
A short story, a real moment in history, a film, a discovery — read it, learn the words, then talk about it.
Seventy-one tales that turn on their final line — O. Henry, Poe, Chekhov, Chopin, Doyle. Every story at two levels.
Explore the stories →Six lessons on how poems work: Dickinson, Tennyson, Keats, Shakespeare, Blake and Wordsworth, with the tools and the English to talk about them.
Explore the poetry lessons →Role plays drop you into a real conversation and teach the phrases that make it work. The speaking series build fluency from different angles.
A complete grammar course from first steps to fine polish — and ways to find exactly where your gaps are.
A gentle way in, from your very first words — with review built in so the words stick.
The same four steps every time, whatever the subject — built on how memory actually works, so that you do almost all the talking.
Every lesson opens by asking you to recall what you already know, before anything new arrives. Remembering strengthens memory more than looking again.
Practice testingThe key vocabulary comes first, in context, with a picture or a diagram where one helps, so everything after it makes sense.
Context · dual codingA story, a business case, a role play or a grammar point, in small steps: I show it, we try it together, then you try it alone.
Rosenshine's PrinciplesThe heart of it: timed speaking tasks where you do most of the talking, explaining why in your own words, with feedback on the task and not on you.
Elaboration · feedbackWhat I leave out: highlighting and re-reading feel productive but help very little, and matching lessons to a supposed “learning style” has not been shown to improve results.
Based on Dunlosky et al. (2013), Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction and Hattie's Visible Learning.
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Beyond English — a memory project, a full religious studies curriculum, deep space, and some tools I built. And the searchable index of everything.
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