Live class guide

Final recording — first thing, no warm-up

Same paragraph, same free-speaking prompt as Week 1 and Week 3. Label it Final · Week 6.

Then play baseline → midpoint → final in order, without stopping, and say nothing until the student speaks.

Their three patterns, not yours

The student comes with three named patterns and a bucket count from Session 3. Teach to those, whatever they are. This hour has no fixed content by design.

For each pattern: confirm it is real (ask for two examples), demonstrate it at natural speed, slow it down, then natural speed again. Then give one concrete thing to do about it for the next month.

Their questions

Work the questions they wrote in Session 3. If they arrive with none, that is worth noting — it usually means Session 3 was skipped, and the hour should go back to the Couldn't-Catch clinic instead.

Agree the keep-going plan out loud

Read their Session 4 plan together. Make it smaller — almost every student writes a plan twice the size they will keep.

• Is the material something they actually enjoy? If not, it will not survive a month.
• Is it five or six phrases per session, not twenty?
• Are the days and times specific?

Close it properly

Name specifically what improved — not “your English is better,” but “in Week 1 you could not hear the difference between can and can't, and today you caught it three times.”

Then set expectations honestly: progress from here is slower and less visible than it was in these six weeks, and that is normal rather than a sign of stopping.