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Online Courses

BBC Learning English has different sessions to help you practise your English.

Here are some courses from Future Learn. You need to pay for the courses, but you can view the course materials for free.

Basic English 2: Pre-Intermediate

English for the workplace

Entry 2 Topic Work

New Internationalist Learn English Wiki provides reading activities, where you can also practise your grammar and vocabulary:

Najala from Kenya says she flies too much

Let’s work less

Plastic

Here are some activities from Education and Training Foundation to help you learn the language for working in the UK:

Cleaner

Retail

Care work

Pinboard with lots of coloured post-it notes attached

Learner studying with headphones on and sitting at a laptop

Speaking and Listening

Here are some videos and listening activities from ESOL Courses:

Climate change

The world’s greatest superfan

These activities from Learn English Teens will help you practise your listening skills:

Learn English Teens also has activities to help you with your speaking:

Buying new shoes

Making plans

Giving your opinion

Talking about your family

Reading

ESOL Courses has some activities to help you prepare for Functional Skills reading exam:

Understanding job descriptions

Fire safety at work

Starting work

Read these news articles from News in Levels and watch the videos:

Applause for Spanish workers

Car companies help

New York bans plastic bags

Olympics delayed

There are lots of different reading activies on British Council Learn English:

A message to a new friend

An email from a friend

An invitation to a job interview

Learner reading from a laptop and taking notes in a notebook

Writing

There are lots of activities to practise your writing on British Council Learn English:

A personal profile

My last holiday

Messaging to make plans

An expression of interest

Grammar

Have a look at these grammar activities from BBC Learning English:

Making questions

Present simple and present continuous

Adverbs of frequency

‘Have to’ and ‘must’

Past simple

British Council Learn English has a variety of grammar activities to try:

Articles 1

Articles 2

Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing

Question forms

Here are some activities from English File:

Vocabulary

Look at these resources from ESOL courses to develop your vocabulary for looking for a job:

Job search vocabulary list

Job search vocabulary wordsearch activity

Vocabulary for talking about Covid-19

Try these online activities from British Council Learn English:

Games to Learn English has different activities to develop your vocabulary:

Vocabulary

Spelling