Mr. Rodwell teaches spoken English in your home, built on a two-year, milestone-based curriculum using the lexical approach — full ready-made phrases a child can actually use, not vocabulary lists to memorize.
Rodwell T. Munyama — ELT curriculum designer and private English fluency coach based in Moscow. Every track above is his own two-year framework, built specifically for 1-on-1, in-home lessons with children ages 4–12.
This curriculum rejects single-word vocabulary lists and isolated grammar drills. Every lesson is built around ready-made lexical chunks — full functional phrases a child can deploy immediately in real speech. Grammar is never explained as a rule; it's absorbed through repeated, varied, physical use of the chunk in context.
Chunks are rehearsed through games, physical movement, and real information-gaps — the child has to actually want to say the phrase to win, take a turn, or find something out.
Every new week's chunks are folded into review games from prior weeks. Nothing is taught once and dropped — language stays alive all year.
A short, zero-pressure "performance" at the end of every week so parents see real weekly progress — never a test, always a natural conversation or mini-scene.
Each year runs 10 months, divided into monthly themes and weekly chunk sets, with results-oriented milestones — not an open-ended class.
The 10-month Intensive Fluency Curriculum. The goal is automaticity: the child reaches for full functional chunks — greetings, feelings, requests, routines, opinions, storytelling — without translating in their head first.
Ends with: a live Graduation Show performed for parents, using every chunk category built over the year.
The Native Fluency Immersion Curriculum. The goal shifts to sounding and understanding like a native speaker — natural reactions, fillers, banter, discourse markers, register-switching, and real debate and negotiation.
Ends with: a Two-Year Graduation Showcase — a capstone conversation, story, debate, negotiation, and presentation performed live for parents.
Three tracks, each with its own pace, session length, and games — a child moves from Year 1 into Year 2 of the same track as they grow.
High TPR (total physical response), routines, and emotional expression — magnetic faces, picture books, puppet play.
Gamified immersion — structured role plays, timer/card games, Monopoly-style board games, and expanding sentence frames.
Project-based learning, strategic board games, customized reading, and deeper analysis — high-utility social and academic chunks.
Every session follows the same reliable rhythm, whatever the game on top of it looks like.
Two or three known chunks come back through a quick greeting or prop ritual.
A prop, picture, or problem is revealed before any new language is introduced.
The tutor models the phrase in action, then guides several changing turns inside a game.
Every session ends with a record of how independently the child used the target chunk.
The Parental Showcase Checkpoint: a short, natural conversation or mini-scene for parents — never a test — so progress is visible every single week, not just at the end of the year.
One rate, whatever the track — sessions just run longer for older age groups.