English Curriculum Roadmap
Explore our communicative syllabus. Click on each level to view the communicative functions, grammatical focus, and suggested reality-based activities.
Communicative Functions
- The Maker Identity: Introducing yourself and your interests
- The Lab: Naming tools and describing your workspace
- Actions & Code: Expressing routine actions and giving basic commands
- Monitoring: Discussing schedules, time, and project status
Grammar & Tech Vocab
- Verb 'to be' (e.g., I am a maker)
- This/That & Plurals (e.g., Nozzle, Bed, Plate)
- Present Simple (e.g., I want to print)
- Adverbs of Frequency, Time, and Days
Suggested Activity
Role-play: Generating a conversation with an AI about troubleshooting a 3D print or explaining your setup to a peer.
Communicative Functions
- Describing past events and experiences
- Discussing plans and future intentions
- Handling short social exchanges (shopping, ordering food)
- Describing one's background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need
Grammar Focus
- Past Simple (regular and irregular verbs)
- Present Continuous (for future and present actions)
- Going to (future plans)
- Comparative and superlative adjectives
Suggested Activity
Role-play: Planning a weekend trip with a friend and booking a hotel room over the phone.
Communicative Functions
- Expressing personal opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
- Describing experiences, dreams, hopes & ambitions
- Briefly giving reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
- Dealing with most communicative situations likely to arise whilst travelling
Grammar Focus
- Present Perfect Simple (experiences, recent past, unfinished past)
- Past Continuous
- Modals of advice and obligation (should, must, have to)
- First Conditional (If + present, will + infinitive)
Suggested Activity
Role-play: A performance review with a manager, discussing achievements over the past year and goals for the future.
Communicative Functions
- Understanding the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics
- Interacting with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible
- Producing clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explaining a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages
Grammar Focus
- Present Perfect Continuous
- Past Perfect Simple and Continuous
- Second and Third Conditionals
- Passive Voice (all tenses)
- Reported Speech
Suggested Activity
Debate: Defending a complex proposal in a business meeting and addressing counter-arguments spontaneously.
Communicative Functions
- Understanding a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognizing implicit meaning
- Expressing ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions
- Using language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes
Grammar Focus
- Mixed Conditionals
- Inversion for emphasis
- Advanced participle clauses
- Nuanced modal verbs (deduction in the past, probability)
Suggested Activity
Task: Leading a seminar on a challenging socio-economic topic, fielding complex audience questions with idiomatic language.
Communicative Functions
- Summarizing information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation
- Expressing oneself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations
- Mastering idioms, colloquialisms, and cultural references with near-native ease
Grammar Focus
- Full mastery of complex structural patterns (cleft sentences, extreme fronting, ellipsis)
- Nuances of meaning conveyed through subtle grammatical choices (e.g., lexical verbs vs. modal verbs)
- Stylistic variation in writing and speaking
Suggested Activity
Task: Engaging in high-level negotiations, interpreting subtle subtext and responding persuasively using highly sophisticated rhetorical devices.