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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On our YouTube channel we have a lot of really helpful videos with tips to improve your English. We have posted some here for you or why not go to our YouTube Channel
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How to Improve your English
One of the best ways to improve your language skills is your ability to communicate about topics that are in the news at the moment. There are of course lots of ways to...
LSI/IH Portsmouth is now a Linguaskill Test Centre
From December 2019, LSI/IH Portsmouth has been offering the possibility of taking the Linguaskill test at LSI/IH Portsmouth, this replaces the BUL...
How to improve your English
It's the new year and a new decade. It's the time when many people think about ways to improve a skill or to change a habit. Why not make this year be the ye...
OET Premium Preparation Provider
What is an OET Premium Preparation Provider?
Premium Preparation Providers or PPP are institutions that have achieved benchmark quality in OET teaching and cou...
Christmas Crafternoon
Here at LSI/IH Portsmouth we pride ourselves on running a varied and interesting social programme (https://lsi-portsmouth.co.uk/social-programme/). When our intern, Dana asked...
Charity Bake Sale
In November, LSI/IH Portsmouth hosted a bake sale in order to raise money for a local charity URBOND (https://www.urbond.org/).
We had a great selection of cakes and even some...
Our New Facebook Banner
Recently we asked our social programme organiser for General English; Catt to have a go at re-doing our banner on our Facebook page. We had a little chat with her after.
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Listening to the TV for your English
Of the four communication skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing), many people find listening to be the most challenging. With listening you have to t...
Passport to Paradise
There are many many reasons why people choose to become TEFL teachers. It has to be said it is rarely because of the salary ;-). The thing about TEFL teachers is that they ar...
As some of you might know the big talking point in the UK in the last few years has been ……. Brexit. Brexit is short for British Exit from the EU (the European Union). In 2016 the UK held a re...
It’s been nine years since Pinterest first came on the scene and in that time, thousands of the most gorgeous images have been posted onto the platform.
People love using Pinterest ...
Thinking In English
Perhaps one of the most difficult things to do when learning a language is to try and think in that language. It really isn’t that easy to do! However, it’s not impossible a...
Should you Unlearn in order to Learn.
Recently a teacher here at LSI/IH Portsmouth came up with an interesting idea to discuss when talking about the process of learning.
Unlearning learning. ...
Culture and Language
One of our teachers recently wrote this article questioning how cultural knowledge fits in the language learning process. It's a nice follow on from an article on the BBC and...
