After the noise of the debate, there is only birdsong and a fig tree. Buddha does not want to argue: he wants to listen, which turns out to be harder. In five stepping stones your student audits their week, examines what they cannot live without, turns panic into calm, follows small actions to big consequences and puts one burden down. What your student will do • Give an Emotional Audit with precise feeling words and one mixed feeling • Sort attachments into need, want and habit, then imagine life without one • Climb the five rungs from panic to acceptance, aloud • Build five-link cause-and-effect chains and trace causes with must have, might have, can’t have • Name one burden, describe its cost and finish with a release sentence Language and skills Hypothesising (wish, if only, would rather, imagine, suppose); habits (used to, would, tend to); modals of deduction in the past; cause-and-effect connectors; instead of, rather than, there’s no point in -ing; a rich emotion vocabulary palette. What’s included • Student pack (14 pages, A4): mission briefing, phrase banks, grammar ladder, vocabulary warm-up, five scored stops with scenes and tasks, scoring scrolls, self-checks, final scoreboard and ranks, bonus homework • Teacher’s Guide and answer key (10 pages): set-up checklist, how to play the mentor, sample answers at B2 level, common errors with quick fixes, scoring guide for every stop, marking grid, Gold & Growth sheet • Print-ready PDF and fully editable Word (.docx) versions of both, so you can change the wording, add your own student’s name or cut a stop How it works Designed for one-to-one lessons (private tutors, online teachers, tutoring centres) with B2 learners aged about 15 and over. You play the historical figure; the student does most of the talking. The module takes 100–120 minutes and splits neatly into two lessons. The guide also has a tip for working with two students. This module asks for honest talk about feelings. The guide explains how to keep it optional and low-pressure, with a “pass” at any time. Good to know The historical figures are fictional dramatisations for language practice; the dialogue is invented. One licence covers one teacher. Part of the Five Days · Five Celebrities course: the full five-module bundle is also available in this shop at a lower price per module.

Your student lands in Leonardo’s chaotic Milan workshop and becomes his idea machine. There is a timer, a pencil, a deck of Chaos Cards and a mentor who finishes nothing. Across five sketches they describe a mystery drawing, explain modern objects with only fifteenth-century words, pitch a wild invention to a Duke, dissect a broken modern system and dictate a painting full of hidden secrets. What your student will do • Describe and speculate about mystery sketches using a five-part scan and modals • Explain a smartphone, a plane and a microwave without any modern words (circumlocution) • Brainstorm with “Yes, and…”, then pitch an invention with P.I.T.C.H. and handle the Duke’s objections • Dissect a system, name its flaw and present a redesign while drawing a blueprint • Dictate a painting and speculate about its meaning as an art critic from the year 2500 Language and skills Describing objects (shape, size, material, position, function); modals of speculation; passives for systems; purpose clauses (so that, in order to); persuasive and critical language; technical vocabulary (contraption, mechanism, prototype, sturdy, flimsy). What’s included • Student pack (14 pages, A4): mission briefing, phrase banks, grammar ladder, vocabulary warm-up, five scored stops with scenes and tasks, scoring scrolls, self-checks, final scoreboard and ranks, bonus homework • Teacher’s Guide and answer key (10 pages): set-up checklist, how to play the mentor, sample answers at B2 level, common errors with quick fixes, scoring guide for every stop, marking grid, Gold & Growth sheet • Print-ready PDF and fully editable Word (.docx) versions of both, so you can change the wording, add your own student’s name or cut a stop How it works Designed for one-to-one lessons (private tutors, online teachers, tutoring centres) with B2 learners aged about 15 and over. You play the historical figure; the student does most of the talking. The module takes 100–120 minutes and splits neatly into two lessons. The guide also has a tip for working with two students. It is the fastest module of the five. The guide shows how to scale the Chaos Cards up or down. Good to know The historical figures are fictional dramatisations for language practice; the dialogue is invented. One licence covers one teacher. Part of the Five Days · Five Celebrities course: the full five-module bundle is also available in this shop at a lower price per module.

Turn your one-to-one speaking lessons into a time-travelling role-play. Over five modules your B2 student visits Socrates, Buddha, Leonardo da Vinci, Oda Nobunaga and George Washington, while you play each mentor: asking, interrupting, testing and rewarding. The student does most of the talking, collects points at every stop and works up to a final rank. What your student will do Module 1, Socrates: defend opinions, define abstract ideas, handle interruptions and logical traps, and reason through a moral dilemma with all four conditionals • Module 2, Buddha: describe feelings precisely, talk about habits and attachments, hypothesise (wish, if only, would rather) and trace cause and effect • Module 3, Leonardo: describe unfamiliar objects, speculate, explain something without the word (circumlocution), pitch an invention and redesign a broken system • Module 4, Nobunaga: decide quickly, weigh options, negotiate and deliver an ultimatum without insults, using conditionals and the future perfect • Module 5, Washington: propose laws with formal modals, mediate with reported speech, persuade a crowd and give a farewell speech with negative inversion What’s included Student pack (73 pages, A4): mission briefings, phrase banks, grammar ladders, vocabulary warm-ups, 25 scored stops with scenes and tasks, scoring scrolls, self-checks, scoreboards and ranks, bonus homework and a Grand Finale • Teacher’s Guide and answer key (42 pages): set-up checklists, how to play each mentor, sample answers at B2 level, common errors with quick fixes, a scoring guide for every stop, marking grid, adapting the course, Gold & Growth sheet and course tracker • Print-ready PDF and fully editable Word (.docx) versions of both, so you can change the wording, add your own student’s name or cut a stop Why it works Every stop has a scene, a task with a clear language target, a phrase bank and a self-check, so the student always knows what to do and how they did. Points reward communication, not right answers, and each module has its own bonus skill. How it works Designed for one-to-one lessons (private tutors, online teachers, tutoring centres) with B2 learners aged about 15 and over. Each module takes 100–120 minutes, about nine hours in total, and splits neatly into two lessons. The guide also has a tip for working with two students. Good to know The historical figures are fictional dramatisations for language practice; the dialogue is invented. One licence covers one teacher. Each module is also sold separately in this shop.

Your student is Oda Nobunaga’s brand-new advisor, and the contract has one clause: do not be boring. There are no jokes, no “maybe”, and a burning fuse. Over five orders they state an ambition and its cost, advise on a traitor’s punishment, negotiate how to split gold, troops and rice, deliver an ultimatum without a single insult and name the comfort they would burn for their goal. What your student will do • Decide first and explain second, with weighing language (outweigh, trade-off, given that) • Weigh at least five options and adjust a recommendation when new facts arrive • Plan and negotiate a resource split while resisting four classic tactics • Deliver a six-part ultimatum politely with conditionals and diplomatic softening • Make a concrete, sustainable commitment with future perfect and conditional promises Language and skills First conditional and its power words (unless, otherwise, provided that, should you…); the future perfect; weighing and justifying language; negotiation moves; softening threats; strategic vocabulary (leverage, morale, ultimatum, trade-off). What’s included • Student pack (15 pages, A4): mission briefing, phrase banks, grammar ladder, vocabulary warm-up, five scored stops with scenes and tasks, scoring scrolls, self-checks, final scoreboard and ranks, bonus homework • Teacher’s Guide and answer key (10 pages): set-up checklist, how to play the mentor, sample answers at B2 level, common errors with quick fixes, scoring guide for every stop, marking grid, Gold & Growth sheet • Print-ready PDF and fully editable Word (.docx) versions of both, so you can change the wording, add your own student’s name or cut a stop How it works Designed for one-to-one lessons (private tutors, online teachers, tutoring centres) with B2 learners aged about 15 and over. You play the historical figure; the student does most of the talking. The module takes 100–120 minutes and splits neatly into two lessons. The guide also has a tip for working with two students. Everything stays in words and strategy, and a built-in reality check steers students away from unhealthy sacrifices. Good to know The historical figures are fictional dramatisations for language practice; the dialogue is invented. One licence covers one teacher. Part of the Five Days · Five Celebrities course: the full five-module bundle is also available in this shop at a lower price per module.

Your student wakes up in the Agora in Athens, and Socrates has just noticed their trainers. Over five scored stops they survive a deceptively simple question, define the modern world for a man from 400 BC, defend an opinion against a professional opponent, work through a moral grey zone, and finally try to ask the one question he cannot answer. What your student will do • Survive a question ladder with examples and contrast words (although, whereas, however) • Build and repair five-part definitions under attack • Defend an opinion with Claim, Reason, Example, Concession, then argue the other side • Reason through a lying dilemma with second, third and mixed conditionals and alternatives to “if” • Build a fair, specific, open question and give a victory speech Language and skills B2 conditionals and alternatives to if (unless, as long as, provided that, even if); concession and contrast language; holding the floor and handling interruptions; abstract vocabulary (assumption, loophole, refute, concede, dilemma). What’s included • Student pack (16 pages, A4): mission briefing, phrase banks, grammar ladder, vocabulary warm-up, five scored stops with scenes and tasks, scoring scrolls, self-checks, final scoreboard and ranks, bonus homework • Teacher’s Guide and answer key (11 pages): set-up checklist, how to play the mentor, sample answers at B2 level, common errors with quick fixes, scoring guide for every stop, marking grid, Gold & Growth sheet • Print-ready PDF and fully editable Word (.docx) versions of both, so you can change the wording, add your own student’s name or cut a stop How it works Designed for one-to-one lessons (private tutors, online teachers, tutoring centres) with B2 learners aged about 15 and over. You play the historical figure; the student does most of the talking. The module takes 100–120 minutes and splits neatly into two lessons. The guide also has a tip for working with two students. The lying dilemma has no correct answer, and the guide gives suggested positions rather than a key. Good to know The historical figures are fictional dramatisations for language practice; the dialogue is invented. One licence covers one teacher. Part of the Five Days · Five Celebrities course: the full five-module bundle is also available in this shop at a lower price per module.

A snowy winter camp, a single candle and a general who would rather be home. Washington asks your student what the future looks like, then asks them to help build something that lasts. Over five agenda items they give an honest report on the future, draft three absolute laws, mediate between farmers and merchants, sell an unpopular tax to an angry crowd and write a farewell warning. What your student will do • Give a balanced report on change, with hope but without lying • Draft laws with a principle, rule, enforcement, consequence and safeguard, and defend them under cross-examination • Mediate with reported speech and neutral language and test the compromise for fairness • Deliver a three-minute persuasive speech using rhetorical devices and answer a heckling crowd • Plan and give a formal farewell address with negative inversion Language and skills Modals of obligation and prohibition (including formal shall); it is essential that… with the base verb; reported speech for mediation; neutral language; rhetorical devices; negative inversion (never must we…, only by… can we…). What’s included • Student pack (15 pages, A4): mission briefing, phrase banks, grammar ladder, vocabulary warm-up, five scored stops with scenes and tasks, scoring scrolls, self-checks, final scoreboard and ranks, bonus homework • Teacher’s Guide and answer key (10 pages): set-up checklist, how to play the mentor, sample answers at B2 level, common errors with quick fixes, scoring guide for every stop, marking grid, Gold & Growth sheet • Print-ready PDF and fully editable Word (.docx) versions of both, so you can change the wording, add your own student’s name or cut a stop How it works Designed for one-to-one lessons (private tutors, online teachers, tutoring centres) with B2 learners aged about 15 and over. You play the historical figure; the student does most of the talking. The module takes 100–120 minutes and splits neatly into two lessons. The guide also has a tip for working with two students. Discussion stays on ideas, institutions and fairness. No knowledge of American history is needed, and the guide suggests how to avoid current party politics. Good to know The historical figures are fictional dramatisations for language practice; the dialogue is invented. One licence covers one teacher. Part of the Five Days · Five Celebrities course: the full five-module bundle is also available in this shop at a lower price per module.

The Mayor’s birthday cake has been stolen, and your student is the detective on the case. Four levels, an XP bar, a boss fight — and by the end they’ve used there is/there are, Present Simple and Present Continuous without once being told they were doing grammar. FORMAT Two editable Word documents (.docx). Print them, or share the Player Book on screen. Replace [NAME] with your student’s name and you’re ready — the Admin Guide includes a one-minute prep checklist. A NOTE ON LEVEL A1–A2 grammar, roughly ages 8–12, about 4 lessons of 45–50 minutes. Nothing here requires long writing; every task is speaking.