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A2 Elementary · 60 minutes
Travel to 1926 Cairo and help solve a missing-notebook mystery at Hotel Shepheard. Read the story, listen for key clues, interview suspects, and write a short timeline report using past simple, past continuous, and time expressions.
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B2 Upper intermediate · 60 minutes
Step into a courtroom drama in the coastal town of Marlow Bay and decide whether Elena Rossi copied a rival’s famous cookie recipe. You’ll examine clues, hear witness evidence, discuss your opinion politely, and build a reasoned verdict using present perfect and past simple.
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C1 Advanced · 60 minutes
Step into a courtroom drama where you examine witness statements, compare evidence, and decide whether Maya Patel copied a rival bakery’s secret recipe or created a similar roll by accident. You’ll build persuasive arguments, use cautious language like must, might, and could, and present a final verdict based on the most convincing evidence.
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B2 Upper intermediate · 60 minutes
Explore how NASA’s Psyche spacecraft used Mars for a close flyby, a speed boost, and a test of its instruments on the way to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid. You’ll discuss space exploration, learn key news vocabulary, and practice describing the mission in clearer English.
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A2 Elementary · 60 minutes
Learn key haircut and hair-care words, then practice using some and any, salon instructions, and simple requests. You will also read and listen to a salon conversation, discuss haircut preferences, and write about a haircut experience.
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B2 Upper intermediate · 60 minutes
Learn essential gym and fitness vocabulary while practicing the present perfect to talk about experience, progress, and results. You’ll discuss your habits and barriers, listen to a dialogue about joining a gym, and write a short update about your fitness goals.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Students will explore a news story about wildfire smoke affecting cities across the Midwest and Northeast, while learning key health and weather vocabulary. They will also practice giving safety advice, sharing personal reactions, and summarizing the situation in short spoken and written responses.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Students learn useful café words and polite phrases like “would like” and “could I have” while listening to a café conversation and practicing it in pairs. They also role-play ordering with the AI, write a short order, and review key expressions in sentence-building activities.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Learn key film and box office vocabulary while reading and listening to a simplified news report about the weekend’s movie results. You will also compare film earnings, discuss which movies are successful, and write a short summary in your own words.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Students explore a workplace makeover story by comparing a messy break room with a calm team space. They practice comparative forms, read and listen to coworkers reacting to the change, and describe their own dream office improvements in speaking and writing.
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A2 Elementary · 60 minutes
Learn how to use the present continuous to talk about future plans and arrangements. You will practice planning words and time phrases, read and listen to short conversations, and then ask, answer, and write about your own plans for next week.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Students explore a news story about a housing bill that may become law even without the president’s signature. They practice key news vocabulary, future certainty and conditionals, then discuss the political conflict, answer questions, and write a short opinion paragraph.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Students read and listen to a simplified news report about Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui’s 30-year prison sentence in the US and learn key vocabulary from the article. They also practice past passive forms in news language, discuss reactions to the case, and write a short opinion paragraph.
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B2 Upper intermediate · 60 minutes
Students will explore a news story about Pope Leo XIV’s message to new archbishops and the examples of Saints Peter and Paul. They will practise leadership vocabulary, modal verbs for advice and obligation, and respond through discussion, listening, reading, writing, and speaking tasks.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Students follow the crew of the Aurora Echo as they survey icy Nereid-7, decode a strange signal, and deal with a failing navigation system. They practice giving and following instructions, describing what is happening on scans and camera feeds, and reporting the mission in a short debrief.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Students investigate a missing recipe book in a coastal café by reading clues, listening to witness statements, and comparing alibis. They also practice past simple, past continuous, and deduction language to explain what happened and build a final case report.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Practice using will, won’t, and shall to talk about future facts, predictions, instant decisions, promises, and offers. You’ll answer questions, read and listen to short conversations, and speak in pairs about plans, follow-up ideas, and future choices.
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A2 Elementary · 60 minutes
Students solve a stormy hotel escape by discussing first steps, learning useful hotel and emergency vocabulary, and working through clues from a note, a map, a security-camera message, and a maintenance log. They also practice first conditional sentences, put emergency steps in order, and explain their answers aloud as they race to the rooftop radio.
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C1 Advanced · 60 minutes
Students solve a tense library escape story by reading incident notes, listening to Mara Quinn’s emergency message, and matching clues to hidden objects. They also practice present perfect and modals of obligation while discussing suspicious events, writing a short report, and piecing together the final escape sequence.
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B1 Intermediate · 60 minutes
Follow Maya, Tomas, and Priya as they make urgent decisions after a violent monsoon traps them in a flooded community center. Students practice survival vocabulary, use must/should/might to justify choices, and read, listen, speak, and write about the changing emergency until the group reaches higher ground.
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