What you’ll learn
- Describe events and processes in the passive when the doer is unknown or unimportant ('the road is being repaired', 'the form is verified first')
- Report what someone said using 'said that' and 'asked whether' with the correct tense shift
- Report instructions and requests with 'told me to', 'asked us not to' and 'requested that'
- Keep present tense when the reported fact is still true, and shift it when it is not
- Narrate a day at work or home in connected sentences that mix passive, reported speech and your own actions
- Retell a two-minute conversation accurately, without quoting word for word or switching to Hindi
Skills you’ll practise
This course is for
Hindi-first working adults who can form simple sentences. Hindi-first speakers know the rules of passive and reported speech from school but freeze when they have to use them live: 'the meeting was cancelled', 'he said he would call back', 'the doctor told me to rest'. This course teaches both as spoken patterns, not grammar tables. Each lesson gives you two to four sentence frames and then puts you in a realistic roleplay, a colleague back from leave, a spouse asking about a phone call, a manager who wants a summary, where you must use them. It ends with a capstone where you listen to a full phone conversation and retell it accurately.
level
You can hold a basic conversation but hesitate, translate in your head, or freeze under pressure. We fix that.
Course 8 of 12 in the Spoken English track.
Inside every lesson
Ten minutes, five phases, one live tutor. Here is how lesson 1 — “The Meeting Was Cancelled” — runs.
- 1 min
Warm-up & goal
Tutor greets you and states today’s goal.
- 2 min
Learn the patterns
Learn 2–3 sentence patterns and repeat them aloud.
- 5 min
Live roleplay
Live roleplay — you do most of the talking.
- 1.5 min
Corrections & retry
Two specific corrections, then one retry.
- 30 sec
Wrap-up & preview
One thing you did well and a preview of next time.
Syllabus
Lessons unlock one after another. Completed lessons show your score; you can revisit any lesson.
Your AI tutors
Same lessons, different personalities. Pick one now or switch any time.
Patient retired bank manager from Kanpur who now tutors adults, early 60s
Best suited for: Hindi-medium adults who understand English but freeze when speaking, and who learn fastest when a pattern is contrasted with how Hindi says it
The Drill Coach
Brisk communications trainer at a Noida BPO, mid-30s
Best suited for: Learners who already know the grammar but speak too slowly, and who want someone to push their speed, push back on vague answers, and keep the pressure realistic
The Conversation Partner
Chatty former Mumbai radio presenter turned conversation coach, late 20s
Best suited for: Learners who are shy about speaking at all and need a friendly, natural conversation partner who keeps the talk going and corrects afterwards rather than interrupting
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