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  “Just wanted to say a genuine thank you. Your course is magnificent.” That arrived on Friday, from someone who downloaded the scheme of work. Week 1 is now up — click here . I changed week one a lot. It needed to be right. It wasn't. My original plan had learners working out the IELTS test format from a matching task “through active discovery rather than lecture”. It sounded right. It wasn’t. Rosenshine’s evidence base includes Kirschner, Sweller and Clark on precisely why minimal guidance fails. And his seventh principle asks for roughly 80% correct during guided practice. A worksheet set cold on unfamiliar content delivers neither. So the stage now presents the material in two small chunks — Listening and Reading, then Writing and Speaking — with the same handout used after each chunk as practice rather than before it as discovery. Same materials. Same twelve minutes. Opposite logic. What’s in the lesson: Stage 1 · Welcome and prior knowledge. A first lesson has no prev...