Practical English: Adaptive Focus
Practical English: Adaptive Focus is a general English course for learners from beginner to advanced levels, designed to improve core English skills as efficiently as possible.
The course guides learners through an adaptive learning path and improves overall English with a focus on grammar, listening, and reading. Practical English: Adaptive Focus is accessible across a range of devices, allowing learners to study anytime, anywhere.
About Practical English: Adaptive Focus
Practical English: Adaptive Focus provides a highly personalized study formula that identifies each learner’s weaker areas and continuously serves learning materials that meet individual needs throughout the course.
At the start, learners complete a placement test to assess listening, reading, and grammar. Results are then used to recommend the most relevant lessons and maximize learning gains.
Learners who commit to 2–3 hours of study per week over several months can expect significant improvement in level and in scores on international tests.
Practical English: Adaptive Focus provides:
- 350 rich lessons from A2 – C1 covering a wide range of everyday and workplace situations.
- A variety of task types, including animated dialogues that increase engagement and aid comprehension.
- Detailed feedback on every activity, with comprehensive grammar guidance to support learning and review.
- An adaptive path that begins with a placement test and consistently delivers materials to target weaker skills.
- Audio featuring a range of accents from both English-speaking and non-English-speaking countries.
- End-of-lesson checks to measure progress.
Adaptive learning approach
Practical English: Adaptive Focus uses an adaptive algorithm to automatically select appropriate lessons based on each learner’s progress. It targets areas for improvement to help learners master core skills as efficiently as possible.
Test results and study history are continuously analyzed to track level and ability and to suggest the next best lessons.
Every lesson offers varied content and activities that follow a clear, proven learning cycle to build English skills systematically.
Study cycle
Lessons follow a systematic Learn–Practice–Check cycle and are divided into short modules. Learners can start a lesson, take a break, and easily resume at any time.
A short check at the end of each lesson consolidates learning and provides an immediate progress milestone.
- Vocabulary is contextualized through animations or short, memorable model dialogues aligned with each task.
- Learners receive feedback explaining why each answer is correct or incorrect so they can track their self-study.
- Skills practice includes a range of tasks from reading for gist to scanning for specific information.
- A brief quiz reinforces key points and serves as a benchmark for progression to the next level.
