The C2 course, anchored to Cambridge C2 Proficiency — the ceiling of the suite. Ten units of Between the Lines — Vivian, a retired actress of stage and radio, and Marcus, a lexicographer, examine what English does between the lines: the meaning that lives above and beneath the words. 100 minutes of podcast audio, everything built from the same unit — and a separate 20-week exam track to the certificate.
The numbers are the route: e-book first, then ears before eyes — listen to the episode before the transcript tasks — and the game seals the unit.
Unit 2 “The Art of the Pause”: the full interactive e-book — the reading, the Grammar Clinic on the species of silence, and the vocabulary bank. Units 1–2 live.
Open the e-book → 2The Performance: Gerald's four seconds, and two words reversed by the wait. The Close Reading: the loaded “fine”, the negotiation, the sofa. Ears first! (Audio in production; the script is on the page.)
Listen → 3The full episode script, word for word — the twenty terms in amber, every quoted specimen in teal — with numbered tasks including the three-pause instrument drill.
Do the tasks → 4Nine silences, from the Old Vic to the Sunday sofa — read what each one holds, and when your turn comes, do something in it.
Play →Little and often beats long and rare. Two tiny habits, right here: your words come back on the day your memory needs them, and your streak keeps you honest (one missed day is forgiven each week).
Spaced repetition — each phrase returns on the day your memory needs it.
Tap when you practise — listening, reading, playing: it all counts.
One unit, one way English means more than it says. Units open as they are authored.
Finish the review on the unit page first — then claim your star and print your certificate.
A separate extension for after the ten units: one part of the real C2 Proficiency exam per week, a mini-mock every fourth week, and a full-mock block in weeks 17–20.
🎓 C2 Proficiency Exam Track: the 20-week map, four equal papers part by part, the summarise-and-evaluate signature task, and the score bands — up to Grade A at the very ceiling of the Cambridge Scale. Open the track →1 h 30 · 7 parts · 53 questions · 25% · ~3,000 words of demanding text.
1 h 30 · summarise-and-evaluate essay + one long genre · 25%.
≈40 min · 4 parts · 30 questions · 25% · the unstated position throughout.
16 min per pair · 3 parts · 25% · a two-minute turn, then six minutes defending it.
Meaning between the lines, in objects — playbills, marginalia, and the first dictionaries of slang.
Colleges, quads and questions: where big ideas learned to speak English.
The university behind your exam — and the river that taught it to think.