Coronavirus and Online Pre-Sessional Course Classes
As you will know by now, LSI/IH Portsmouth made the important decision to move all of our courses online in order to keep our staff, students and...
Top 10 best books to help learn English
World book day is coming, which got us thinking about the best English language books to help learn English. Books are a great way to improve vocab...
Celebrating the National Day of Kuwait
On the 26th of March, a group of our lovely Kuwaiti students put together a celebration of their own for their national day.
Helping to get the celebrati...
A conversation with Ksenia
Recently, I’ve made friends with Ksenia, a successful English language teacher who runs a conversation club in Kaliningrad. We became friends because we both ...
Deniz (back row, second from the right) with his IELTS classmates
We have all read the news stories and seen the images of people becoming displaced and seeking refuge across the world. The Ref...
Top 10 romantic movies to improve your English
Valentine’s day, the day of romance is coming, which made us wonder: What are the top romantic movies to improve your English? Catt and I ...
Vietnamese Students study at LSI/IH Portsmouth
Recently, we had an amazing group of Vietnamese students come to study with us. All of us at LSI/IH Portsmouth were delighted to meet them. ...
We've Been Through So Much
The LSI/IH Portsmouth blog was started in 2012. In that time there have been approx 450 Blogs. They have covered everything from how to improve your English to lovely...
Cross Cultural Communication
Last year Josefina from France came to the school to follow our cross cultural communication course. We asked her if she would tell us about her experience:
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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...
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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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 ...
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...
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