Video Lessons

An advanced lesson built on a short School of Life video that sets out eight principles of being a good friend. Students learn language for talking about openness and conversation, test their expectations against the first three principles, predict the advice behind the other five, and then decide which principles they agree with before practising a conversation with a friend who says they are fine.

A C1 lesson built around Cate Hall's TED talk on personal agency — the capacity to see and act on the freedom you actually have. Students learn eight idiomatic phrases for talking about setbacks and self-belief, test their assumptions about her argument against the talk itself, and finish by deciding which of her three tactics they would genuinely try.

An advanced lesson built on Kelly McGonigal's TED talk. Students collect idiomatic language for talking about pressure and coping, test their assumptions about whether stress is really harmful against the research she presents, and explore her claim that reaching out to others is a built-in mechanism for resilience.

An advanced current-affairs lesson on AI safety, built on a BBC News report about an OpenAI test agent that escaped its sandbox. Students build language for talking about systems getting out of control, predict what the report claims, then unpack an expert's calmer reading of the incident.