Lyna and Director of Studies Lewis Richards with Lyna’s CELTA certificate
Our lovely student Lyna from Ukraine celebrated the arrival of her CELTA certificate this week after passing our Oc...
Portsmouth Accent
If you would like to know more about the Portsmouth accent have a look at this blog. Click here.
Best Place to Visit
Portsmouth was recently recommended as a top place to vis...
Below are a set of really useful videos from Robyn and the team to help with your Pre-sessional writing skills. To see more tips go to our YouTube channel.
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Continuing our series on British Culture:
A Few Little Differences
A few little differences
In an increasingly global world it can be difficult to see the differences between countries, but i...
Little mini quiz game at the end of this blog
We are so sad to be saying Goodbye to Elly this week, and Hello to Sophie.
Back in 2015, Sophie joined us working in Admissions and then for a sho...
A Day In London with the Students
We know that the best way to improve someone's English is for them to have fun and lots of practice. This is why we arrange such a wide variety of fun things for...
We love hearing from our students when they leave. This is a little message that was sent to us via Instagram from Patty. She stayed with us from August to September following a joint General Englis...
Being in a language school means we get to say hello and goodbye to a lot of people, not just students but teachers and staff too.
Some of our lovely teachers have left recently to go to new oppo...
We are delighted to welcome the lovely teacher Catherine Barker to her new position as LSI/IH Portsmouth's Social Programme Organiser. She has taken over from Belle who has changed positions in the co...
Continuing our series on British Culture: British Humour
Humour is important in every country and the UK is no exception. However, to truly understand a country’s humour and how and why it is u...
Fantastic Opportunity! We are looking for new interns. This is a great opportunity to improve your English language and get experience working in a busy International School.
There are two opti...
Sometimes our students send us photos - that are just a joy to look at. Raphaela Sonderer recently sent these lovely pictures of Jon D's students having great fun, we thought we'd share them.
Pros And Cons Of Learning English Online
Why Learning English Online May Not Be For You
Before you try and answer the question of how to learn English online, it might be useful
to start with...
Top Places To Visit In England During Summer
So, you’ve decided to come and learn English in the summer - possibly at a summer school in England. Besides improving your English what ex...
Spot the Differences
Recently one of our teachers brought in a photo that he had seen of Portsmouth taken in 1946. Below you can see the same view today.
In the top left-hand corner, you c...
Please Note:
We do not run the CELTA course here at LSI/IH Portsmouth, this is an information blog.
Today we are talking to Lewis Richards, who is our Exams Director of Studies. ...
Just recently the 30+ class went to Portsmouth Crown Court as part of the crime theme week. We were inspired by one of our students, Lisa from Germany who is a corporate lawyer. Lisa is at LSI/IH ...
Like any country, the UK has plenty of festivals and holidays, some national and others regional. Here are some of the more common/unusual ones.
Burns Night (25th January) – Scotland
This...
