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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Our first 'Working at LSI/IH Portsmouth Couple' are having a baby!
Adam (Assistant Building Manager and IT Support) and Hannah (Teacher, Marketing etc)
Lovely Hannah is leaving us today, for t...
Happy Chinese New Year!
Today marks Chinese New Year, the
longest and most important holiday in the Chinese calendar. The festival,
known as Seollal in South
Korea and Tet in Vietnam, is ...
What is
Valentine’s Day?
Every year on February
14th, flowers, cards and chocolate are exchanged between loved ones,
all in the name of the famous St. Valentine. But who was St. Valent...
We have written before about
the G! Boutique; a 14 bed-roomed boutique hotel that was opened just over 2
years ago by LSI/IH Portsmouth’s previous marketing director Allan Gray and ...
Continuing with our monthly vocabulary calendar - here is February.
Download and print our monthly calendar - pin it up, learn all the phrases and by the end of the year you will have...
Teaching the teachers - Tuesday's class
In the blog we posted a couple of weeks ago, we showed how many of our teachers speak other languages. We are very fortunate to have on the staff qui...
As LSI/IH Portsmouth continues to grow, so has the importance it places on personal development. We recently wrote about five of our teachers who are following an inhouse DELTA course. A...
Bill Phillips is almost part of the fabric of the school - teaching at LSI/IH Portsmouth since 1994, always with a smile on his face. He is known by his (trademark) bow ties and his catch phrase...
It's true to say that the teachers you find in a language school are probably a different breed to most workers you'll find anywhere else. At LSI/IH Portsmouth our particular teachers are a mul...
We were very proud of our latest group of Pre-sessional students, seen here at their leaving ceremony on the last day of term in December. They all worked so hard and now they have had a break ...
All of us at LSI/IH Portsmouth would like to wish all of you a very happy, peaceful and relaxing holiday, whatever you do, where ever you do it and who ever you do it with. See you next yea...
What an amazing 2014 we have had at LSI/IH Portsmouth. Here is a quick run down of some of the best stories of the year:
January:
We started the year off with promotions, a new Exams Dir...
Stop Press: 15/12/14
Nicki P is now the proud mum of Josef Robertz. Born at 7.30 this morning weighing 7lb 9oz with a full head of black hair. All healthy and happy!
Our 'Superb S...
The last quick tip of the year comes from the Irrepressible Jon D. Watch as our Jon gives a great tip on how to keep your English up to date with the news!