All lesson tracks Track 1

Conversation, Pronunciation, and Accent Softening

Follow a clear path from essential everyday English to precise, confident communication. Each level combines practical conversation, pronunciation coaching, listening, repeated speaking practice, feedback, and review.

Four levels

Start where you are. Build toward real independence.

Each level contains two sequential eight-week courses. Completion is based on consistent communication in guided or realistic tasks—not accent perfection.

Track 1 level guide

Beginner

Build the English you need to introduce yourself, ask for help, and manage common daily situations with growing independence.

Program length: 16 weeks · 50 minutes per week
Courses: Beginner I + Beginner II
Primary focus: Essential everyday conversation

Level overview

This level is designed for Portuguese-speaking adults who are starting English or rebuilding a basic foundation. Lessons use simple English, repeated speaking practice, pronunciation coaching, and bilingual support when useful.

What you will learn

Practical goals for real communication

Introduce yourself and share personal information

Use greetings and polite expressions to begin and end a short interaction.
Say and spell your name, country, address, phone number, and other familiar details.
Use the verb be and simple sentence patterns to give a short personal introduction.

Ask and answer essential questions

Use who, what, where, when, and how to request basic information.
Ask for repetition, clarification, slower speech, or help when you do not understand.
Respond to familiar questions with short, relevant answers instead of isolated words whenever possible.

Talk about familiar people, objects, and routines

Describe family, important people, everyday objects, colors, quantities, and preferences.
Use simple present sentences for daily actions and routines.
Use frequency words and present-simple questions to discuss what you and other people usually do.

Handle predictable daily-life situations

Tell time, discuss dates and schedules, and make or confirm a simple appointment.
Order food and drinks, ask about prices, and make polite requests.
Ask for and follow basic directions; discuss transportation and locations in town.
Shop for clothing or household items using sizes, quantities, and preferences.
Describe a common health need or symptom and ask an appropriate person for assistance.

Communicate by phone and in short roleplays

Use can and can't to talk about ability and make basic requests.
Give or confirm important information during a simple phone exchange.
Connect two familiar situations in sequence, such as confirming a schedule and then asking for directions.

Improve clarity and listening confidence

Recognize and produce important vowel contrasts in common words and short sentences.
Pronounce final consonants and common grammatical endings more clearly.
Use clearer number pronunciation for ages, prices, dates, phone numbers, and addresses.
Listen for familiar key words and use repair strategies when part of a message is unclear.

Your 16-week learning journey

Two courses, one connected progression

Each weekly lesson includes focused instruction, speaking practice, pronunciation or listening work, feedback, and review.

Course 1

Beginner I

Build the foundation

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 149 USD
Complete: 199 USD
Plus: 249 USD

Weeks 1–2: greetings, the alphabet, personal information, numbers, spelling, the verb be, and short introductions.
Weeks 3–4: family, everyday objects, singular and plural nouns, final consonants, daily actions, and simple present routines.
Weeks 5–6: question words and essential vowel contrasts in common words and sentences.
Weeks 7–8: asking for help and clarification, followed by a final introduction and simple everyday roleplay.

Course 2

Beginner II

Use English more independently

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 149 USD
Complete: 199 USD
Plus: 249 USD

Weeks 1–2: routines, frequency, present-simple questions, third-person endings, time, dates, schedules, and appointments.
Weeks 3–4: food, ordering, prices, polite requests, places in town, directions, transportation, and location phrases.
Weeks 5–6: shopping, sizes, quantities, preferences, can and can't, phone basics, and final-consonant clarity.
Weeks 7–8: health and common needs, then two connected daily-life roleplays and a next-step review.

Completion criteria

What readiness looks like

You are ready to complete this level when you can demonstrate these outcomes consistently in guided or realistic speaking tasks.

01
Personal introduction
Give a short, understandable introduction that includes basic personal information and can spell or repeat key details when asked.
02
Basic question exchange
Ask and answer familiar who, what, where, when, and how questions using short sentences and appropriate question patterns.
03
Routine description
Describe familiar daily actions, schedules, and frequency using simple present language that a supportive listener can follow.
04
Everyday transactions
Complete short exchanges involving food, prices, shopping, quantities, preferences, directions, transportation, or appointments.
05
Phone and information accuracy
Say and confirm numbers, dates, times, phone numbers, addresses, and other familiar details clearly enough to avoid major misunderstandings.
06
Needs and assistance
Describe a simple health or personal need and ask for help, clarification, repetition, or slower speech when necessary.
07
Pronunciation clarity
Produce practiced vowel contrasts, final consonants, and common word endings with improved clarity in familiar words and short sentences.
08
Integrated speaking task
Complete two connected daily-life roleplays with familiar support, remain engaged in the exchange, and recover from a misunderstanding with a practiced strategy.

How completion is demonstrated

A final personal introduction and everyday speaking check.
Two connected roleplays selected from the level's daily-life situations.
A comparison of early and final speaking performance, with teacher feedback on clarity and independence.
A short next-step plan identifying language and pronunciation targets for Elementary.

What a typical lesson includes

A brief review and confidence-building warm-up.
Essential vocabulary and simple sentence building.
Focused pronunciation, listening, and repetition practice.
A guided conversation, phone exchange, or everyday roleplay.
Individual feedback, recap, and a clear practice target.

Track 1 level guide

Elementary

Move beyond short answers and learn to tell stories, explain plans and opinions, solve problems, and keep a conversation going.

Program length: 16 weeks · 50 minutes per week
Courses: Elementary I + Elementary II
Primary focus: Connected, independent conversation

Level overview

This level is designed for Portuguese-speaking adults who can already manage basic exchanges and want to speak in longer, better-organized conversations. Lessons combine useful grammar and vocabulary with listening, rhythm, connected speech, roleplay, and self-correction.

What you will learn

Practical goals for real communication

Build longer, connected answers

Move from single sentences to responses that include a main idea and supporting details.
Use sequence words and background information to organize a story.
Ask and answer follow-up questions so the conversation continues naturally.

Talk about past, future, and life experience

Use regular and irregular past verbs to describe yesterday's activities and tell a short personal story.
Pronounce common -ed endings clearly enough to support meaning.
Discuss future plans with going to, make invitations, and explain schedule changes.
Use introductory present-perfect phrases to talk about familiar life experiences.

Describe, compare, and evaluate

Use stronger adjectives, comparatives, and superlatives to describe people, places, and things.
State an opinion, give a reason, agree, or disagree politely.
Give advice and suggestions that fit a familiar situation.

Explain problems and request solutions

Describe a service problem clearly, identify what happened, and request an appropriate action.
Explain simple causes, results, and possible solutions.
Clarify important details and confirm that the other person understands the request.

Manage real conversations with greater independence

Start, continue, and close a conversation appropriately.
Participate in social, workplace, and community exchanges involving invitations, updates, requests, and boundaries.
Adapt practiced language to a student-selected real-world situation instead of relying only on a memorized script.

Develop connected speech and self-correction

Use word stress, sentence rhythm, thought groups, linking, and natural pacing in longer responses.
Recognize common reductions and listen for stressed key words in connected speech.
Notice and repair recurring pronunciation patterns with decreasing teacher support.

Your 16-week learning journey

Two courses, one connected progression

Each weekly lesson includes focused instruction, speaking practice, pronunciation or listening work, feedback, and review.

Course 3

Elementary I

Connect ideas across time

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 210 USD
Complete: 249 USD
Plus: 299 USD

Weeks 1–2: longer present-time answers, past-tense storytelling, regular and irregular verbs, and -ed endings.
Weeks 3–4: detailed description and comparison, future plans, invitations, and schedule changes.
Weeks 5–6: life experiences, service problems, clarification, and requests for action.
Weeks 7–8: stress, rhythm, linking, and pacing, followed by a past story, future-plan discussion, and service roleplay.

Course 4

Elementary II

Sustain and shape conversations

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 210 USD
Complete: 249 USD
Plus: 299 USD

Weeks 1–2: strategies for opening, maintaining, and closing conversations, plus organized storytelling and follow-up questions.
Weeks 3–4: opinions, reasons, agreement, polite disagreement, advice, causes, results, and solutions.
Weeks 5–6: reductions, linking, stress, key-word listening, and social, workplace, or community communication.
Weeks 7–8: student-selected situations, targeted pronunciation repair, an extended final roleplay, and a recorded progress review.

Completion criteria

What readiness looks like

You are ready to complete this level when you can demonstrate these outcomes consistently in guided or realistic speaking tasks.

01
Extended response
Answer a familiar question with connected sentences, relevant detail, and enough organization for the listener to follow the main point.
02
Past story
Tell an organized story about a past event using understandable time references, sequence language, and a workable mix of regular and irregular past verbs.
03
Future and experience
Discuss a future plan, invitation, or schedule change and describe a familiar life experience using the course's target language.
04
Description and opinion
Compare people, places, or things; state an opinion; support it with a reason; and respond politely to a different view.
05
Problem-solving exchange
Explain a service or everyday problem, clarify key details, describe a cause or result, and request or suggest a realistic solution.
06
Conversation management
Start, sustain, and close a familiar conversation while using follow-up questions, clarification, and appropriate social language.
07
Connected-speech clarity
Use more consistent word stress, sentence rhythm, linking, and pacing, and identify important words when listening to connected speech.
08
Self-correction and final performance
Complete an extended roleplay or speaking recording, recognize at least the recurring patterns identified during the course, and attempt an effective repair with limited prompting.

How completion is demonstrated

A past-event story and a discussion of a future plan.
A service or problem-solving roleplay that requires clarification and a requested action.
An extended student-selected conversation recorded for comparison with the level baseline.
A next-step plan identifying fluency, listening, and pronunciation priorities for Intermediate.

What a typical lesson includes

A brief review and fluency or spontaneous-speaking warm-up.
Useful grammar, conversation language, and vocabulary in context.
Pronunciation, connected-speech, and listening practice.
An extended conversation, story, problem-solving task, or roleplay.
Feedback, self-correction, recap, and a focused practice target.

Track 1 level guide

Intermediate

Make your English easier to understand by refining high-impact sounds, word endings, stress, rhythm, connected speech, and intonation.

Program length: 16 weeks · 50 minutes per week
Courses: Intermediate I + Intermediate II
Primary focus: Pronunciation, rhythm, and intelligibility

Level overview

This level is designed for Portuguese-speaking adults who can already hold everyday conversations and now want clearer, more consistent pronunciation in longer speech. Instruction is individualized through diagnostic recordings, listening discrimination, shadowing, guided speaking, and focused accent-repair practice.

What you will learn

Practical goals for real communication

Identify and prioritize your pronunciation needs

Create a diagnostic speaking recording and identify the patterns that most affect your intelligibility.
Set individualized goals based on sound production, endings, stress, rhythm, pacing, or connected speech.
Compare recordings over time and use feedback to choose focused practice instead of trying to change everything at once.

Produce high-impact sounds more accurately

Use clearer mouth position and sound contrast for priority American English vowels.
Practice consonants that are often challenging for Portuguese speakers, including TH, R, L, and H.
Reduce substitutions that can change a word or make it harder for a listener to recognize.

Protect word endings and consonant clusters

Pronounce final consonants that carry important lexical or grammatical information.
Differentiate plural, possessive, third-person -s, and past-tense -ed endings in connected speech.
Produce initial and final consonant clusters without adding an extra vowel sound.

Use stress, schwa, rhythm, and thought groups

Place stress more accurately in common multi-syllable words and reduce unstressed vowels toward schwa when appropriate.
Organize longer explanations into thought groups with useful pausing.
Create a clearer rhythm by balancing stressed content words and unstressed function words.

Understand and use connected speech

Link consonants and vowels across word boundaries and use common contractions and reduced forms.
Recognize assimilation and deleted sounds that occur when careful speech becomes faster conversation.
Use authentic listening and shadowing to connect what you hear with how you speak.

Communicate attitude, contrast, and register

Use intonation to distinguish statements, questions, choices, uncertainty, and emotional meaning.
Use focus stress to highlight new information, corrections, contrasts, and key ideas.
Adjust articulation, reductions, pacing, and expressive stress across casual, professional, and formal situations.

Monitor, repair, and maintain progress

Use recording, playback, transcription, shadowing, and rehearsal to analyze a recurring pattern.
Self-correct priority sounds or delivery patterns during an extended speaking task.
Create a realistic maintenance plan for continued practice after the level ends.

Your 16-week learning journey

Two courses, one connected progression

Each weekly lesson includes focused instruction, speaking practice, pronunciation or listening work, feedback, and review.

Course 5

Intermediate I

Build accurate, intelligible speech

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 249 USD
Complete: 279 USD
Plus: 329 USD

Weeks 1–2: diagnostic recording, individual priorities, vowel contrasts, mouth position, and vowel clarity in sentences.
Weeks 3–4: TH, R, L, H, consonant substitutions, final consonants, and grammatical endings.
Weeks 5–6: initial and final clusters, word stress, reduced vowels, and schwa.
Weeks 7–8: sentence stress, thought groups, pausing, linking, pacing, a final recording, and targeted practice goals.

Course 6

Intermediate II

Refine natural connected speech

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 249 USD
Complete: 279 USD
Plus: 329 USD

Weeks 1–2: persistent-pattern review, linking, unstressed function words, contractions, and common reductions.
Weeks 3–4: assimilation, deleted sounds, faster-speech listening, and intonation for meaning and emotion.
Weeks 5–6: focus stress, prominence, rhythm, pacing, and shifts between casual, professional, and formal registers.
Weeks 7–8: an individualized accent-repair clinic, extended final presentation or conversation, recording comparison, and maintenance plan.

Completion criteria

What readiness looks like

You are ready to complete this level when you can demonstrate these outcomes consistently in guided or realistic speaking tasks.

01
Documented priorities
Identify the pronunciation patterns that most affect intelligibility and explain the specific practice targets selected from the diagnostic recording.
02
Priority vowels and consonants
Produce the student's selected vowel contrasts and consonants with improved accuracy in practiced words, sentences, and guided extended speech.
03
Endings and clusters
Preserve final consonants and common grammatical endings and produce practiced initial or final clusters without a consistent added vowel.
04
Word and sentence stress
Use more accurate word stress, reduced vowels, sentence stress, thought groups, and pausing so longer speech is easier to follow.
05
Connected speech and listening
Recognize common reductions, linking, assimilation, or deleted sounds in practice material and use selected connected-speech features without sacrificing clarity.
06
Intonation and focus
Use intonation and prominence to signal questions, choices, uncertainty, contrast, correction, or the most important new information.
07
Register and pacing
Adjust pacing, articulation, and degree of reduction for a casual, professional, or formal speaking situation.
08
Final performance and self-repair
Complete an extended presentation or conversation that remains intelligible, notice and repair selected recurring patterns, compare it with the diagnostic recording, and leave with a specific maintenance plan.

How completion is demonstrated

A diagnostic and final speaking recording used for direct comparison.
Focused sound, ending, cluster, stress, and connected-speech checks tied to individual priorities.
An extended presentation or conversation in an appropriate speaking register.
A personalized maintenance plan with recording, shadowing, monitoring, and transfer practice.

What a typical lesson includes

A brief review, articulation exercise, or pronunciation warm-up.
A focused pronunciation or connected-speech clinic based on high-impact targets.
Listening discrimination, repetition, authentic listening, or shadowing.
Guided speaking or an extended performance that transfers the target into real speech.
Individual feedback, self-monitoring, recap, and maintenance practice.

Track 1 level guide

Advanced

Apply clear, confident English to detailed instructions, official information, workplace communication, and realistic professional or driving-related simulations.

Program length: 16 weeks · 50 minutes per week
Courses: Advanced I + Advanced II
Primary focus: Precise communication and pathway readiness

Level overview

This level is designed for Portuguese-speaking adults who can communicate independently and need greater precision, flexibility, and confidence for complex real-world tasks. Students first build shared advanced communication skills, then choose a Professional English or New Jersey driving-exam preparation pathway for focused simulations.

What you will learn

Practical goals for real communication

Follow and communicate detailed procedures

Give and follow directions, procedures, sequences, and multi-step instructions.
Identify missing information and ask precise questions before acting.
Confirm steps and outcomes using paraphrasing and understanding checks.

Summarize, paraphrase, and explain

Restate detailed information accurately in clearer or shorter language.
Summarize the main point and important supporting details from a spoken or written source.
Explain an unfamiliar term and reformulate an answer when the first explanation is not understood.

Communicate facts and data precisely

Say, hear, confirm, and correct numbers, dates, times, measurements, prices, addresses, and identification details.
Maintain accuracy when questions are faster or when several details must be handled together.
Separate confirmed facts from assumptions or missing information.

Adjust tone, pronunciation, and register

Choose formal, neutral, or conversational language based on audience and purpose.
Maintain clear pronunciation and pacing while working with complex information.
Use professional tone for updates, requests, explanations, phone calls, voicemail, meetings, or interviews.

Interpret rules and explain decisions

Read and explain rules, notices, warnings, policies, and short official instructions.
Describe causes, consequences, responsibilities, and exceptions.
Apply a rule to a workplace update or driving scenario and explain the reason for a decision.

Respond clearly under realistic pressure

Process rapid questions, request clarification, and reformulate an answer accurately.
Listen for essential information in recorded instructions, announcements, voicemail, or test directions.
Manage timed reading or a realistic speaking simulation without losing the main task.

Prepare for a selected pathway

Professional pathway: introduce your background, describe experience and responsibilities, give updates, solve problems, and participate in interviews or meetings.
NJ driving pathway: use permit and identification language, discuss signs and road users, analyze intersections and right-of-way, and explain safety risks or rule-based scenarios.
Complete a final readiness assessment and create a transition plan for Track 2 or Track 3.

Your 16-week learning journey

Two courses, one connected progression

Each weekly lesson includes focused instruction, speaking practice, pronunciation or listening work, feedback, and review.

Course 7

Advanced I

Master precise, complex communication

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 299 USD
Complete: 329 USD
Plus: 399 USD

Weeks 1–2: diagnostic assessment, pathway goals, communication gaps, pronunciation priorities, and multi-step directions or procedures.
Weeks 3–4: paraphrasing, summarizing, checking understanding, explaining terms, and accurately communicating numbers and identification details.
Weeks 5–6: formal, neutral, and conversational tone; rules, notices, warnings, policies, and official instructions.
Weeks 7–8: causes, consequences, responsibilities, exceptions, and an integrated listening, reading, and speaking assessment.

Course 8

Advanced II

Demonstrate pathway readiness

Total tuition for this 8-week course

Basic: 299 USD
Complete: 329 USD
Plus: 399 USD

Weeks 1–2: select Professional English or NJ driving-exam preparation, create a readiness plan, and practice relevant personal or background information.
Weeks 3–4: rapid questions, clarification, accurate reformulation, data under pressure, and pathway-specific responsibilities or road-use language.
Weeks 5–6: problems and solutions or safety analysis, plus phone calls, voicemail, updates, recorded instructions, and announcements.
Weeks 7–8: interview or meeting practice, or timed reading and a full driving-pathway simulation, followed by a final readiness assessment and transition conference.

Completion criteria

What readiness looks like

You are ready to complete this level when you can demonstrate these outcomes consistently in guided or realistic speaking tasks.

01
Multi-step communication
Follow and give a detailed sequence or procedure, preserve the order of the steps, and ask or answer clarification questions when information is incomplete.
02
Paraphrase and summary
Summarize the main point and essential details of a short spoken or written source and paraphrase information without changing its meaning.
03
Precise information
Communicate and confirm numbers, dates, times, measurements, prices, addresses, or identification details accurately in a realistic exchange.
04
Tone and register
Select formal, neutral, or conversational language that fits the audience and maintain clear pronunciation and pacing during a complex response.
05
Rules and consequences
Read or listen to a rule, notice, warning, policy, or instruction; explain what it requires; and describe a relevant responsibility, consequence, or exception.
06
Reasoned explanation
Explain a problem, cause, risk, or decision; support the response with relevant information; and reformulate it if the listener needs clarification.
07
Performance under pressure
Respond to rapid questions or recorded instructions, request clarification appropriately, and preserve essential facts while completing the task.
08
Integrated pathway assessment
Complete a listening, reading, and speaking simulation for the selected Professional English or NJ driving pathway and use feedback to create a concrete transition plan.

How completion is demonstrated

An integrated Advanced I task combining listening, reading, and spoken explanation.
A precise-information check using numbers, dates, times, addresses, measurements, prices, or identification details.
A full Professional English or NJ driving-pathway simulation under realistic conditions.
A final feedback conference and documented readiness plan for Track 2 or Track 3.

What a typical lesson includes

A brief review and advanced-fluency or pathway warm-up.
High-level communication language and pathway vocabulary.
Pronunciation, listening, reading, and comprehension under realistic conditions.
An applied explanation, professional task, or driving-pathway simulation.
Individual feedback, recap, and readiness-plan updates.

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