Learning English

Grammar, vocabulary and speaking, from the teachers who run the classes.

Students out in Newcastle city centre by the Millennium Bridge

Everyday English nobody teaches you

Students arrive able to discuss climate change and unable to order a coffee. The greetings that are not questions, the shop counter, and the host family table.

5 August 20265 min read

Students talking in a seminar room at the Newcastle campus

Learning English

Speaking English with confidence, when you already know the grammar

Almost every student can write better English than they can speak. Six things that close that gap, none of which involve learning anything new.

5 August 20265 min read

A lesson in progress at our Peterborough centre

Learning English

Punctuation that trips up English learners

The five marks that make correct English read as translated English — the colon, the semicolon, the apostrophe, the comma and the dash — and the test for each.

5 August 20265 min read