‘Right to Disconnect’

• Majority of UK employees want Britain to adopt French out-of-hours email ban

• Emails while commuting 'should count as work'

 

 

Pronunciation /ɪ/ &/ i:/

Key and Pin

and watch the video

New Courses

Here are a couple of new courses we're offering:

New Student Admission

This is for new students or if you want to study another language

Exams from other communities

Don't forget to check out the links to exams from other communities, especially Madrid & Asturias here: 

• Exams from other communities

The sound schwa

My first job

Pronunciation 3:

Business English videos

Speeding & parking tickets

Read the article on Speeding tickets

Appealing Parking ticket fines

The sounds /z/ and /s/

Watch the video and practise:

Participle clauses

• Exercises 1 
• Exercises 2
• Exercises 3

Happy Women's Day!

Women have to pay more in shops

Women have to pay more in shops

Extreme adjectives

Here are a couple of useful activities
Here's a great picture with gradable & non-gradable adjectives from keepsmilingenglish:

Accommodation Listening Practice

Listen to these conversations on the topic of cities:

• Conversation 1
• Conversation 2
• Conversation 3
• Conversation 4
• Conversation 5

Now test yourself: Listening test A  & Listening test B

Stative Verbs

Stative verbs list and exercise  Both can be downloaded in pdf format.

Listening extracts on sport

• Listening on sport
• Sports 1
• Sports 2
• Sports 3
• Sports 4

Gapped text

Here are some samples of gapped texts similar to the ones in our exam:

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6

Sample Speaking Test on Sports

Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Progressive

Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Progressive

• link 1
• link 2
• link 3

Writing a report

In a report you must:

• state the purpose of the report
• use headings for each section
• use a formal and impersonal style

How to write a report and useful phrases

How to organise it and some typical expressions

Could have, should have,would have

A Healthy Lifestyle listening activities

• Do the listening activity from Randall's ESL lab
• Listening activity from elllo
• Another listening activity
• Food and Health listening