Let’s be honest, most English courses are really boring.
You sit through some lessons where a teacher explains a grammar concept.
Phrasal verbs. Idioms. Collocations.
Eugh, it’s no surprise that most people never finish the courses they have spent their hard-earned money on.
If you’re reading this and nodding your head, let me tell you about a new type of course.
It’s called The Mules.
With this course, we have taken the concept of what an English course should look like and turned it on its head.
We think you'll love the result.
See, most courses look like this:
Teach some grammar, add some real-life examples (if you’re lucky). Hope you remember something...
Here’s how The Mules is different.
With this course, everything starts with a gripping story, narrated by two professional actors.
After each episode, you'll watch a video lesson that goes into a language or grammar point in the story, and includes a quiz.
In this quiz, we also explain the answers in detail, so that you can really learn and understand the grammar point.
And each episode comes with a detailed transcript with key vocabulary (600+ advanced words & phrases), for you to review as you listen to the story.
What's more, we are releasing the story and lessons in serialised format (every day for 30 days), so you can follow the course together with an amazing group of curious and motivated learners.
The course will be posted live in our community, so you can ask questions, get grammar help, or chat with other students throughout the course.
course content
course syllabus
This is a list of all of the language and grammar concepts we will cover in the course.
1
Course Introduction
2
Tense Review: The Simple Past
3
Specific Action Verbs
4
Tense Review: Simple Past in the question form
5
Specific Action Verbs
6
Idioms
7
Tense Review: The Past Continuous
8
Courtroom Vocabulary
9
Idioms & Prison Slang
10
Tense Review: The Future in the Past
11
How To Describe Time (Part 1)
12
Tense Review: The Past Perfect
13
Descriptive Language
14
How To Describe Time (Part 2)
15
Tense Review: The Simple Past (Passive)
16
Tense Review: Past Perfect (Questions & Passive)
17
Idioms
18
Specific Action Verbs
19
Tense Review: Simple Past vs. Past Continuous
20
Idioms
21
Tense Review: Past Perfect Continuous
22
Descriptive Language (British Slang)
23
Tense Review: Past Continuous (+"-ing")
24
Descriptive Language (Swear words) & Similes
25
Tense Review: Present Perfect
26
Dialogue & Reported Speech
27
Descriptive Language: Feelings & Emotions
28
Figurative Language & Idioms
29
Specific Action Verbs
30
Verb Tense Review
who this course is for
Do you like listening to podcasts or audio-fiction?
Great.
This is a 30-part audio-fiction series, so you should love it.
Every episode comes with a transcript and a vocabulary list so you will be able to catch everything in the story.
You know that your English grammar isn't perfect, and you have never really understood the difference between "I have been" and "I went".
But you'd rather eat a sock than sit down with a grammar textbook.
You'd like to learn in a more natural and more interesting way.
This course is designed for intermediate to advanced learners (B1-C1 level).
If you listen to our podcasts (English Learning for Curious Minds or Pioneers Of The Continuum), the course is at a similar level.
Or, if you can understand the text on this webpage without looking every word up in the dictionary, you will be fine.
And if you join the course and decide that the level is too high or too low, let us know within 30 days and we'll give you a 100% refund.
happy students
We've been making audio-first learning content for English learners since 2019.
Our courses have been taken by thousands of smart, independent English learners just like you.
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