For governments and public programs
English programs for a whole city, state or university system
Courses built to your official study program and mapped to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), training for the teachers you already have, and one set of reports across every school.
Can it run across hundreds of classes, and show us the program is working?
Yes. Every school, class and student sits in one system, so attendance, grades and assessment results report across the whole program and by school. Universidad Estatal de Sonora had 9,300 students on Smrt English, and cities in Brazil run their public English programs on it.
Public programs
Public English programs delivered with Smrt English
Each program below, in Mexico or Brazil, runs or has run on Smrt English courses, with a state university, a city government or national partners.
English for STEM
Selected with the Canadian College of English Language after a nationwide search to deliver English for STEM at Universidad Tecnológica de Jalisco. Partners: the Government of Canada, Languages Canada and the State of Jalisco.
Technological universities
A course series written from the national study programs, cuatrimestre by cuatrimestre, for the BIS option and the Traditional track.
Universidad Estatal de Sonora
9,300 students learning English with Smrt English at one state university.
Guaratinguetá no Mundo
The city of Guaratinguetá chose Smrt English for its public English program.
Itaquá Para o Mundo
Itaquaquecetuba’s program pairs a printed student book with Smrt English, and each page links straight into the exercises.
Paraná Speaks English
Seven state universities, including Unioeste, Unicentro, UENP and Unespar, taught English with Smrt English courses adapted to the state program.
Curriculum
Courses for every stage, from primary school to university
Kids, Youth, Adults and Academics courses each follow a set scope and sequence, so schools at the same stage work towards the same learning objectives.
Custom Curriculum
Courses built from your national or state study program
For larger programs, as part of a wider partnership. Our curriculum team builds courses from your official study program, unit by unit, as it did for Mexico’s technological universities, ready to teach inside Smrt.
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Built to your study program
Courses built from your official study program
From primary school to university, we start from the official study program and build each course to match it: the same thematic units, grammar where the program asks for it, and levels mapped to the CEFR.
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Primary
Project lessons and reading that build all four skills.
Secondary
Cross-curricular units alongside core English.
Adult programs
General English from beginner to advanced for adult learners.
University
Business, intercultural and STEM communication for advanced students.
One standard, every school
The same program in every school, with training for your teachers
Teachers in every classroom open the same prepared lesson, practice with set answers is marked automatically, and attendance and grades sit in one gradebook. Qualified Canadian teachers train the teachers you already have, and a printed student book can sit beside the platform where devices are shared.
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Baseline and results
A common baseline, and results the program office can report
Placement tests put every student at the right level and give the program a common baseline, so progress is measured from the same starting line in every school. Where a program ends in an exam, preparation courses get students ready for ELASH II, the Oxford Test of English and IELTS.
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Built for public programs
Reporting and support for the program office
The program office sees every school, class and teacher in one system. Quizzes and exams in each course provide the formative and summative results behind each report.
Every school in one system
Schools, classes, teachers and students under one program, each school’s data kept separate.
Program-wide reports
Attendance, course and assessment reports that export as spreadsheets for your own reporting.
Attendance in every class
Teachers take attendance from the class list, and the program office sees it by school and by class.
Canadian partnerships
Programs delivered with the Canadian College of English Language, Languages Canada and the Government of Canada.
Local teams
Regional teams in Mexico and Brazil work in Spanish and Portuguese, alongside your program staff.
Public tenders
Our regional teams prepare proposals and documentation for public procurement.
Your first term
Implementation, from contract to first report
Six steps take a new program from the first planning meeting to its first report, with the same support contact throughout.
Our approach
A communicative curriculum, grounded in research
Smrt English courses follow communicative language teaching. In every unit, students use English with a partner or a small group, teachers scaffold each step, and lessons draw on authentic listening and reading. Every level develops the same four competences.
Linguistic competence
Vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar: the words and rules students need to form accurate sentences.
Textual competence
Managing longer speech and writing, with cohesion, discourse markers and conversational turns.
Sociocultural competence
Using English appropriately: politeness, register and the norms of different situations.
Functional competence
Using language to get things done, such as requesting, offering and inviting.
A documented method
Every level mapped to the CEFR and international exams
Each course is mapped to CEFR, the Canadian Language Benchmarks, IELTS and TOEFL, so staff and students know what finishing a level means. Theory and Practice sets out how the curriculum is built, sequenced and assessed.
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| Course | CEFR | CLB | IELTS | TOEFL |
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| English One & TwoLevel 100 | Pre-A1–A1 | – | – | – |
| English Three & FourLevel 110 | A1 | 2 | – | – |
| English Five & SixLevel 115 | A1–A2 | 3 | 3.0–3.5 | – |
| English Seven & EightLevel 120 | A2–B1 | 4–5 | 4.0–4.5 | 32–41 |
| English Nine & TenLevel 125 | B1–B2 | 6–8 | 5.0–5.5 | 42–59 |
| English Eleven & TwelveLevel 130 | B2–C1 | 9–10 | 5.5–6.0 | 60–78 |
| Academics 140Level 140 | B2–C1 | 9–10 | 5.5–6.0 | 60–78 |
| Academics 145Level 145 | C1+ | 11–12 | 6.0–6.5+ | 79–95+ |
CLB: Canadian Language Benchmarks. IELTS Academic band and TOEFL iBT score ranges are equivalents, not results.
Data and integration
Separate, exportable records for each school
Each school’s data is kept separate from every other school’s. Reports export as spreadsheets, and a read-only API returns student and class records to your own systems.
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Questions
Questions from program offices
These answers cover reporting across schools, the official study program, method, devices, public tenders, data and teacher training.
Anything else? Contact us.
How do we know the program is working across hundreds of schools?
Every school runs the same courses, built to your study program, and every class feeds the same reports on attendance, courses and assessments, by school and by class. Placement results give every school a common baseline, so the program office can see where the program is working and where a school needs support, without collecting spreadsheets.
Can the courses follow our official study program?
Yes. Our curriculum team builds courses from the official study program itself, unit by unit, as it did for the national study programs of Mexico’s technological universities. Levels and outcomes are mapped to the CEFR.
What teaching method do the courses follow?
The courses follow communicative language teaching. In every unit, students use English with a partner or a small group, teachers scaffold each step, and lessons draw on authentic listening and reading. Theory and Practice sets out the method and its research references.
Do students need a device for every class?
No. Teachers can run lessons on a classroom display, and a printed student book can sit beside the platform. In Itaquaquecetuba, each page of the printed book links straight into the matching exercises.
Do you respond to public tenders?
Yes. Our regional teams in Mexico and Brazil prepare proposals and documentation for public procurement, working in Spanish and Portuguese.
Is our data kept separate?
Yes. Each school’s students, classes, grades and attendance records are kept separate from every other school’s, and each API key only reaches its own institution’s data.
Is teacher training included?
Yes. Qualified Canadian teachers train your teachers on the curriculum and the platform during implementation, and professional development courses for teachers are free on the platform.
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Smrt Idiomas Mexico works with schools and universities from Sonora to Quintana Roo, in Spanish, on your term dates.
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Smrt Idiomas Brazil supports schools, universities and city programs across the country, in Portuguese.
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A Canadian company, with a team in Colombia.
Our Colombian team works with schools and institutes across the country, in Spanish.
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Smrt India works with schools, institutes and universities across the country.
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Our team in Turkey works with language schools and universities, in Turkish.
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Our head office is in Vancouver: the curriculum team, teacher training and support all work from here.
