The curriculumFive phases, one session at a time.
Phase 1 · Baseline and planSessions 1–3
Know your level, agree your goals and set up your tools.
| # | Session | What happens |
| 01 | Placement assessment | A placement test and a conversation about your work establish your starting level and the situations that matter most to you. |
| 02 | Your goals and learning plan | We agree your personal learning plan, including any feedback from your manager (for example visibility or presenting), and set up your shared folder: Vocabulary, Phrases & Expressions, and Resources. |
| 03 | Your daily practice | Spaced-repetition flashcards (Noji), YouGlish and Playphrase to hear words in real speech, a grammar app such as Busuu and your AI practice partner, set up as a short daily habit. |
Phase 2 · Clear answers and listeningSessions 4–10
Answer briefly, understand what you hear and ask when you don’t.
| # | Session | What happens |
| 04 | Introducing yourself and your role | A short, natural introduction of who you are, what you do and what your team works on. |
| 05 | Point-first answers | Stand-ups, status updates and questions on the spot: the main point first, in a few clear sentences. |
| 06 | Asking people to repeat and clarify | When someone speaks quickly, quietly or with an accent you don’t know well: asking for the part you missed and checking you’ve understood, without feeling awkward. |
| 07 | Listening to different accents | Short recordings of British, American, Irish, Indian and Australian speakers at different speeds, so unfamiliar accents stop being a surprise. |
| 08 | Small talk, including with senior people | Starting, keeping going and ending conversations with colleagues, clients and senior managers, and reading what kind of answer a question expects. |
| 09 | Emails and chat messages | Bring real messages from work. We review them live, with corrections and explanations, and build templates you can reuse. |
| 10 | Calls and video meetings | Opening a call, dealing with a bad connection, keeping it on track and agreeing next steps. |
Phase 3 · Explaining decisions and business impactSessions 11–16
Explain technical work so that people outside your team understand why it matters.
| # | Session | What happens |
| 11 | Explaining your work simply | Describe a feature, a bug or a process so that someone outside your team understands it. |
| 12 | Business impact | Turn a technical choice into what it means for time, cost, risk and customers, with the technical detail saved for questions. |
| 13 | Asking about someone else’s proposal | Asking about the reasoning, the alternatives and the trade-offs behind a proposal, in a way that sounds curious, not critical. |
| 14 | Opinions, agreeing and disagreeing | Giving your opinion clearly and disagreeing politely, without sounding rude or unsure. |
| 15 | Requests, saying no and bad news | Asking for help, time or resources, saying “not now” professionally, and explaining a problem or a delay: what happened, what it means and what you’re doing about it. |
| 16 | Progress check | A second, more detailed test to pinpoint gaps and sharpen the focus of your plan for the second half. |
Phase 4 · VisibilitySessions 17–21
Be heard beyond your own team: in meetings, one-to-ones and presentations.
| # | Session | What happens |
| 17 | Speaking up in meetings | Getting into the discussion, adding your point and keeping the floor long enough to finish it. |
| 18 | One-to-ones with senior managers | Preparing a skip-level or senior one-to-one: what to share, what to ask and how much detail to give. |
| 19 | Giving and receiving feedback | Phrases and structure for feedback in code reviews, one-to-ones and retrospectives. |
| 20 | Presentation workshop | A simple structure for demos, updates and short talks, then a real presentation from your work, improved for structure, delivery language and confidence. |
| 21 | Handling questions | Answering questions you didn’t expect, buying time to think and saying “I don’t know yet” well. |
Phase 5 · ConsolidationSessions 22–25
Practice the hardest situations until they feel routine, then measure where you are.
| # | Session | What happens |
| 22 | Your workplace role-plays | We design role-plays around three to five situations you find hardest at work, and practice them until they feel normal. |
| 23 | Speaking outside our sessions | Attend a Toastmasters meeting or a language exchange (Tandem or HelloTalk) and report back on how it went. |
| 24 | Final assessment | A final level test and a recorded speaking task, compared with where you started. |
| 25 | Your next stage | We go through your results and agree what comes next: Stage 2, another round of Stage 1, or a plan to keep practicing and stay visible on your own. |