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Dancing her way to the CELTA: Lyna’s stor...

    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...

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Portsmouth – What to See What to Do

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...

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Videos: A Variety

We love capturing the fun. Below are some of our fun clips or go to our YouTube channel.  There are many more on our YouTube channel.

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Videos: Help with Pre-Sessional Writing

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. (more…)

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Writing in the style of a magazine article part three –...

Last in our little series of examples of writing from our students. Talking to Claire by Qasim and Asier Claire sits in front of her computer typing when we arrive. She introduces herself smil...

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Writing in the style of a magazine article part two – ...

Talking To Ross by Fatemah and Peter Our mission for today was an interview with ‘Ross the boss’ who is a teacher and a manager at LSI/IH Portsmouth. Deciding to do this interview in a ...

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Writing in the style of a magazine article part one – ...

Talking To Rosie by Isabel Rolf For the last two and a half years, the lovely Rosie has been the 'Director of Operations' for all the “things that happen in the non teaching part of the schoo...

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Writing in English – choosing your style.

Writing is nearly always the hardest thing to develop in another language.  Recently teacher Jon D's class were focusing on improving their writing skills, and were looking at 'writing...

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Why everyone loves LSI/IH Portsmouth and learning English in...

Our students love us! We pride ourselves on the constantly high standard of teaching, the quality of facilities here at LSI/IH Portsmouth, and our great vibrant interesting friendly city Portsmou...

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A great way to meet new people and practise your spoken Engl...

LSI/IH Portsmouth conversation club with Alex A great way to meet new people and practise your spoken English Finding people to practise your spoken English with isn’t always easy. Many st...

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9 Easy Ways To Improve English Speaking Without Even Thinkin...

How To Improve English Speaking Learning a language can either be a dull activity or a fun activity, and it isn’t always easy to know how to improve English speaking.  When you learn Engl...

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Our Brand New Executive Centre Lounge – Revamped

The Face lift!   . The picture shows: Our stunning new Business Centre Lounge - note the unusual lights! - designed by Steve Fury and hand crafted by Mark Hendry We decid...

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Some of the best things to do in Portsmouth

If you are a bit short on funds, have a look at this blog post to get some ideas of the fabulous things you can do in Portsmouth for FREE. https://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/01/27/free-things-portsmou...

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10 Tips to choose your Pre-sessional course

It is not easy knowing how to choose the right course to help you gain entry into the university of your choice.  Below, our Pre-sessional Director of Studies Robyn gives you 10 of the most i...

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Portsmouth to the Philippines – Hands across the Water

Recently two of our teachers took a few weeks out to go and do something amazing.  Here Caroline Gwatkins explains what: Please click photo for full image In January 2016 Portsmouth and S...

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Saying Goodbye to Two Stars!

We are very sad, but happy for them, to be saying goodbye to two of the loveliest staff members we have.  Yvonne the lovely teacher, who puts her total heart and soul into every lesson.  Ni...

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An Executive Student’s Experience of Portsmouth.

One of our Executive Students recently made a little video while he was staying with us. We think it is really interesting to see Portsmouth and LSI/IH Portsmouth through the eyes of a students. Tha...

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Which is your favourite Social Media?

We would love to know what you think about Social Media.  Why not do our survey and let us know? Click here to do our survey.

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Wow Look At These Photos – Portsmouth at its Best!

Sébastien Demazure, an IT Admin French man from Normandy, arrived at LSI/IH Portsmouth in April for two weeks to improve his English.  He joined the General English programme with Busines...

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All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor ;-)

Lovely students and from left: Mark (Benedict), Will, Cliff, Tom and Adam. Did you know LSI/IH Portsmouth has been providing successful training courses for Cultural Acclimatisation, examinations ...

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