Mission: 365 — twelve questions, one year, one printable plan
A student names a goal for the coming year, and the app opens twelve month-shaped modules to get there. Each month asks one strategic question and only one: Ignition, Resource Gathering, Momentum, Skill Up, Allies, Half-Year Audit, Deep Work, The Wall, Acceleration, Final Prep, The Sprint, Victory. Answer all twelve and the tool assembles them into a blueprint the student can print and keep.
The months unlock in order, and that is deliberate
You cannot jump to month seven. The next module stays locked until the current one is answered, which prevents the thing students do with every planning worksheet: fill in the exciting parts, leave the boring middle blank, and end up with a plan that skips from enthusiasm to success. Working in sequence forces them to write about the month where nothing visible happens — and that is the month the language gets interesting, because describing a plateau requires concession and contrast rather than simple futures.
Twelve different questions, not one question twelve times
The prompts are not interchangeable, and each pulls a different structure. Resource Gathering asks what you need to acquire, which produces need-to and have-to. The Wall asks what you will do when you feel stuck, which produces conditionals. Allies asks who you will ask for help, which produces requests and reported intentions. A student who completes all twelve has moved through most of the future and modal system without a grammar heading appearing anywhere on screen.
It is a writing task that becomes a speaking task
Give two or three minutes per module and let students type their answer in English. That part is quiet and individual. The value comes afterwards, when partners interview each other about the plan — "what are your allies in month five?", "why did you choose that as your first action?". Because the answers are already written down, even hesitant speakers have something to work from, and the interview turns solitary writing into questions, reported speech and justification.
The blueprint is the part students keep
The printable summary at the end matters more than it appears to. A speaking activity vanishes when the bell rings; a one-page document with the learner's own name and their own twelve-month plan on it goes home, into a folder, onto a wall. It also gives the teacher a portfolio artefact — evidence of written production that can be assessed, annotated, and compared against the same student's work three months later.
Revisit it, or it was just a nice lesson
The strongest use of this tool is not the day you run it. Open the blueprints again a month later and ask two questions: what did you actually do, and what would you write differently now. The first forces past simple and present perfect against a plan the student wrote themselves. The second forces revision language and hedging. A single session produces a good lesson; four check-ins across a term produce a running record of a learner speaking about their own progress, which is the most motivating material any class has access to.
Who it is for
B1 and above, and best with teenagers and adults who have a real goal in mind — an exam, a job change, a move abroad, a business. It does not work as a five-minute warm-up; budget a full lesson for the first pass. With lower levels, supply the plan's opening frames ("First I am going to…", "To do that I will need…") and accept shorter answers. The framework survives the simplification; the sequence of twelve questions is what carries the task.
Goes well with
Further reading
CEFR Levels Explained — what A1 to C2 actually mean in a classroom
The One-Device Classroom — teaching with a single screen