Guides
Guides are short reference pieces — the things worth reading once and coming back to, rather than working through. They are free on every plan and there is no limit on them.
Finding one
They are grouped by category — strategies, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, exam day, listening, speaking — and each carries a level and a reading time.
Unlike lessons, guides do not have a Practice stage and finishing one is not recorded. Nothing tracks whether you have read a guide.
Listening and speaking guides
There are guides in the listening and speaking categories even though neither module is built. That is deliberate rather than an oversight: advice about predicting before the audio starts, or filling two minutes in Part 2, is useful whether or not this product can give you an audio file to practise on.
They are reading, not practice, and they do not claim otherwise.
Guides against lessons
| Lessons | Guides | |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | Six stages, in order | Prose |
| Leads to practice | Yes | No |
| Progress recorded | Yes — counts as a study day | No |
| Grouped by | Module, then depth | Category and level |
If you are working through a technique, you want a lesson. If you want to check something before an exam, you want a guide.