Daily Private Podcast: The Core of the Course

Hello, I’m Todd, the creator of ELLLO and the listening coach for this course.

The Daily Private Podcast is one of the most important activities in the course.

There are 20 podcasts in total.

These podcasts help students improve:

• Listening
• Vocabulary
• Grammar (naturally)

Why listening comes first

People learn language through extensive listening.

Think about your first language:

• You heard it every day
• You did not study grammar rules
• You learned before you could read

Listening builds a foundation for:

• Understanding
• Speaking
• Natural grammar use

Listening comes first. Reading comes next.

In this course, students do both.

What the Daily Private Podcast is

In each podcast, I talk naturally.

• No slides
• No bullet points
• No reading from a script

I talk about a topic and use the target grammar naturally.

For example, if the target grammar is causative verbs, I use:

• let
• make
• help

Students hear the same grammar again and again in real sentences.

This is how grammar becomes natural.

Repetition that works

Each unit includes 4 Daily Private Podcasts.

So students hear the same grammar:

• Over 4 days
• In different contexts
• At a natural speed

This is better than studying grammar deeply for only one day.

Students learn at a comfortable pace.

Real interaction after listening

Each podcast ends with a question.

Students can write a comment and share their opinion or experience.

This becomes their writing homework.

In other lessons, students also do speaking homework:

• Students send audio
• The teacher replies with audio

For comments, we reply like normal conversation.

We do not correct English in the comments.

This builds confidence and fluency.

How long is each podcast?

• About 7–8 minutes
• Around 1,500 words

That is a lot of real English in a short time.

Release schedule

Students receive:

• 10 podcasts in a row
• 1 day break
• Another 10 podcasts

So students get:

• 20 total Daily Private Podcasts
• One per day
• Only for this course

Why this lesson matters most

The Daily Private Podcast is the most important lesson in the course.

It trains many skills at the same time:

• Listening
• Grammar
• Vocabulary
• Reading
• Thinking in English

Summary

The Daily Private Podcast provides:

• Natural English
• Repeated grammar exposure
• Real listening practice
• Light reading support
• Real communication
• A daily training habit

It is the heart of the course.