By the end
What you'll build
- Write clear, confident emails, messages and summaries in English
- Speak in meetings with structure — openings, updates, asks
- Use AI tools to draft, check and improve your communication
- Handle disagreement and feedback in professional English
Curriculum
What's inside
31 modules · 236 lessons
- 01
Sounds & Pronunciation
8 lessons- Why English Sounds Are Hard for Indian Learners
- TH /θ/ — think, thank, threepronunciation card
- TH /ð/ — this, that, theypronunciation card
- W /w/ — water, word, alwayspronunciation card
- V /v/ — very, voice, movepronunciation card
- + 3 more lessons
- 02
Spelling Patterns
10 lessons- How English Spelling Works — and Why It Is Tricky
- Spell: COMMUNICATEspelling lab
- Spell: NECESSARYspelling lab
- Spell: PROFESSIONALspelling lab
- Spell: ACHIEVEMENTspelling lab
- + 5 more lessons
- 03
Grammar Essentials
9 lessons- Articles: a, an, the — The Indian Learner's Challenge
- Fill in the Blank — Articles Practice (Level 1)fill blank
- Fill in the Blank — Articles Practice (Level 2)fill blank
- Prepositions: in, on, at — Time and Place
- Fill in the Blank — Prepositions Practicefill blank
- + 4 more lessons
- 04
Communication Tools
7 lessons- Formal vs Informal English — Knowing the Register
- Email Structure and Etiquette
- Write a Professional Email (AI Evaluated)prompt lab
- Polite Requests in English
- Build Polite Requestssentence builder
- + 2 more lessons
- 05
Pronunciation in Context
5 lessons- Word Stress and Sentence Rhythm
- Read Aloud — TH and W/V Soundsspeaking lab
- Speech Practice — TH and W/Vspeech practice
- Read Aloud — Sentence Stress and Rhythmspeaking lab
- Module 5 Check — Pronunciationquiz
- 06
Fluency Drills
4 lessons- How to Build Speaking Fluency
- Tongue Twisters — TH, W, Vtongue twister
- Extended Speech Practice — Introduce Yourselfspeech practice
- Final Fluency Check — Ready for PC1?quiz
- 07
Speak Like an Orator
9 lessons- Why Figurative Language Wins Audiences
- Power Words I — Presence & Driveword power
- Power Words II — Character & Visionword power
- Everyday Idioms You Will Actually Usemetaphor idiom
- Metaphors & Similes That Stickmetaphor idiom
- + 4 more lessons
- 08
Listening, Speaking & Writing
8 lessons- The Three Active Skills
- Listening: A Message from Your Managerlistening lab
- Listening: Following Instructionslistening lab
- Speaking: Read Aloud with Clarityspeaking lab
- Speaking: Introduce Yourselfspeaking lab
- + 3 more lessons
- 09
Grammar Foundations: Words & Sentences
9 lessons- Parts of Speech: The Building Blocks
- Spot the Nouns, Verbs & Adjectivesgrammar tag
- Building a Sentence: S · V · O · C · A
- Label the Sentence Partsgrammar tag
- Build Correct Sentencessentence builder
- + 4 more lessons
- 10
Tools of Comparison — Saying It Through Something Else
8 lessons- Why We Say It Through Something Else
- Metaphor, Simile and Analogy — The Three Workhorses
- Holding One Picture — Extended Metaphor and the Mixed Metaphor Trap
- Standing In For The Thing — Personification, Metonymy and Synecdoche
- Dialling Up, Dialling Down, Borrowing — Hyperbole, Litotes and Allusion
- + 3 more lessons
- 11
Tools of Repetition — Making a Line Stick
8 lessons- Why Repetition Works — and When to Use It
- Anaphora, Epistrophe and Symploce — Repeating at the Edges
- Epizeuxis and Diacope — Repeating Close Up
- Anadiplosis, Conduplicatio and Refrain — Carrying a Word Forward
- Polyptoton and Antanaclasis — Same Word, Different Shape
- + 3 more lessons
- 12
Tools of Structure — Shaping the Sentence
9 lessons- Why Structure Is a Tool
- The Matching Shape
- Equal Weight and Clean Opposition
- The Mirror
- The Build and the Drop
- + 4 more lessons
- 13
Tools of Sound — How a Line Feels in the Mouth
8 lessons- What the Sound Tools Do
- Repeating a Sound: Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance
- Sounds You Can Hear: Sibilance and Onomatopoeia
- Rhythm and Rhyme: Isocolon and Internal Rhyme
- Texture: Euphony and Cacophony
- + 3 more lessons
- 14
Tools for the Audience — Speaking With, Not At
8 lessons- What the Audience Tools Do
- Questions That Do the Work
- Talking To People, Not About Them
- Getting There Before They Do
- The Two Silences
- + 3 more lessons
- 15
Tools of Persuasion — Earning the Yes
8 lessons- What the Persuasion Tools Do
- Ethos and Pathos — Trust and Care
- Logos and Kairos — Reason and the Right Moment
- Concession and Procatalepsis — Handling the Other Side
- Enargeia and Framing — The Picture and the Question
- + 3 more lessons
- 16
Tools of Story — Carrying an Idea in a Scene
8 lessons- Why a Scene Beats a Statement
- The Case and the Facts — Exemplum and Narratio
- Making It Visible — Enargeia and Prosopopoeia
- Shaping the Telling — In Medias Res and Peripeteia
- Holding It Together — Frame Narrative, Callback and Sententia
- + 3 more lessons
- 17
Tools of Clarity — Being Understood First Time
8 lessons- Why Clarity Is a Set of Tools
- Show the Shape First — Partitio, Enumeratio, Topic Sentence
- Make the Meaning Land — Horismus, Exemplum, Brevitas
- Hold the Thread and Close It — Metabasis and Recapitulatio
- Three Ways Clarity Leaks — Jargon, Cliché, Euphemism
- + 3 more lessons
- 18
Practice: Comparison & Story Devices
9 lessons- How These 8 Drills Work
- Metaphor — Practicewriting lab
- Simile — Practicewriting lab
- Analogy — Practicewriting lab
- Extended metaphor — Practicewriting lab
- + 4 more lessons
- 19
Practice: Repetition & Sound Devices
9 lessons- How These 8 Drills Work
- Anaphora — Practicespeaking lab
- Epistrophe — Practicespeaking lab
- Epizeuxis — Practicespeaking lab
- Anadiplosis — Practicewriting lab
- + 4 more lessons
- 20
Practice: Structure & Clarity Devices
8 lessons- How These 7 Drills Work
- Parallelism — Practicewriting lab
- Antithesis — Practicewriting lab
- Chiasmus — Practicewriting lab
- Climax (the build) — Practicespeaking lab
- + 3 more lessons
- 21
Practice: Persuasion & Audience Devices
8 lessons- How These 7 Drills Work
- Ethos — Practicespeaking lab
- Pathos — Practicespeaking lab
- Logos — Practicewriting lab
- Kairos — Practicewriting lab
- + 3 more lessons
- 22
MTI: Find Out What You Are Actually Doing
6 lessons- What Mother Tongue Influence Is — and What It Is Not
- Diagnostic: Can You Hear the Difference?listening lab
- Diagnostic: Your Baseline Recordingspeaking lab
- Which Substitutions Do You Make?writing lab
- How to Practise So That It Actually Changes
- + 1 more lesson
- 23
MTI Consonants I — The Sounds You Are Swapping
6 lessons- Substitution: Why You Say a Different Sound Without Hearing It
- /z/ — zoo, busy, ispronunciation card
- /f/ — coffee, phone, halfpronunciation card
- /ʃ/ — ship, station, surepronunciation card
- /ʒ/ — measure, decision, usualpronunciation card
- + 1 more lesson
- 24
MTI Consonants II — Place, Aspiration and Endings
7 lessons- Same Letter, Different Place in the Mouth
- /t/ and /d/ — the alveolar ridge, not the palatepronunciation card
- Aspiration — pin is not binpronunciation card
- /v/ and /w/ — two sounds, not onepronunciation card
- Dark L — full, milk, peoplepronunciation card
- + 2 more lessons
- 25
MTI Vowels — The Contrasts That Merge
7 lessons- Why Indian Vowels Are Too Pure, and Too Few
- /ɪ/ vs /iː/ — ship and sheeppronunciation card
- /ʊ/ vs /uː/ — full and foolpronunciation card
- /e/ vs /æ/ — bed and badpronunciation card
- /ɒ/ vs /ɔː/ — cot and caughtpronunciation card
- + 2 more lessons
- 26
MTI Diphthongs & Consonant Clusters
6 lessons- Vowels That Move, and Consonants With No Vowel Between Them
- /eɪ/ and /əʊ/ — the vowels that must movepronunciation card
- /aɪ/ /aʊ/ /ɔɪ/ — the remaining glidespronunciation card
- Opening clusters — school is not iskoolpronunciation card
- Closing clusters — tests, asked, factspronunciation card
- + 1 more lesson
- 27
Ladder Rung 1 — The Word
9 lessons- Rung 1: One Sound, Full Attention
- Hearing It: Consonant Contrastslistening lab
- Hearing It: Vowel Contrastslistening lab
- Saying It: Consonant Word Drillspeaking lab
- Saying It: Vowel Word Drillspeaking lab
- + 4 more lessons
- 28
Ladder Rung 2 — Phrase and Sentence
8 lessons- English Is Stress-Timed. Your First Language Probably Is Not.
- Weak Forms — The Small Words Nobody Says Fully
- Linking — Where One Word Ends and the Next Begins
- Hearing It: Weak Forms and Linkinglistening lab
- Sentence Drill: Consonant Targetsspeaking lab
- + 3 more lessons
- 29
Ladder Rung 3 — The Paragraph
8 lessons- Thought Groups — Where to Breathe and Where Not To
- Intonation — The Shape of a Paragraph
- Paragraph: Introduce Yourselfspeaking lab
- Paragraph: A Status Updatespeaking lab
- Paragraph: Explaining Something Technicalspeaking lab
- + 3 more lessons
- 30
Ladder Rung 4 — Real, Unscripted Speech
7 lessons- The Rung Where It Usually Falls Apart
- Unscripted: Speak From Notesspeaking lab
- Unscripted: Thirty Seconds to Preparespeaking lab
- Unscripted: No Preparation At Allspeaking lab
- Your Maintenance Planwriting lab
- + 2 more lessons
- 31
Final Quiz & Capstone Project
4 lessons- Final Quiz: English Communication Toolsquiz
- Your Capstone Project
- Capstone — Speak: Introduce Yourselfspeaking lab
- Capstone — Write: My Daily Routinewriting lab
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
236 lessons across 31 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
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