The Capability Curve
Two years on — three complete lesson packages.
Note: Paid subscribers can download all 3 complete lesson packages at the end of the post.
Last month Mark Zuckerberg argued in the Wall Street Journal that the defining question of our age isn’t whether superintelligence will exist, but who gets access to it. His claim is that as everyone gains more powerful tools, “each person will become more capable of shaping the future, not less.” Fox Business
That has been my experience. Two years ago I made worksheets one at a time. Now, as a matter of routine, I have:
A full production workflow — outline, worksheets, quality check, packaged download
A library of reusable exercise formats — role plays, critical thinking, collocations, graph reading, design-your-own projects
The same topic at two levels, with the easier lesson’s vocabulary recycled inside the harder one
Custom illustrations for vocabulary
Audio for every dialogue, lecture and role play
Answer keys and contents pages as clean PDFs
A searchable record of everything published
The three lessons below are the evidence.
A Changing World — Present Continuous (Intermediate)
Modern life in motion: citywalks, moving back in with parents, downsizing offices, disappearing cash. Twelve phrases for describing change, critical thinking on economic pressures, the attention economy and cities in transition, and a café role play on stative vs continuous verbs.
Behind the Scenes of Modern Life — Passive Voice (Pre-Intermediate)
The easier half of the passive voice pair . Fifteen core passives through a sneaker-journey dialogue, a T-shirt factory-tour lecture, and critical thinking on deliveries, food miles and recycling. Ends with The Product Wars: design a product, pitch it, face the investors.
The Hidden Life of Products — Passive Voice (Intermediate)
The story behind the things we own: recalls, refurbished laptops, counterfeit trainers, automated warehouses, greenwashing, the right to repair. The graph worksheet follows a T-shirt from cotton field to shop.
