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If you have an overseas worker in a front of house role, good speaking skills are of paramount importance. When we assess students in a customer […]

Here is this week’s crossword, again from ‘The I’ newspaper. We’ve added one or two letters and whole clues to help you. The word of the crossword […]

Building your vocabulary doesn’t have to be hard work. These days you don’t have to learn lists and lists of words that seem never ending. Instead […]

As we promised, here is our weekly crossword, complete with a word or phrase of the week! Like last week, today’s crossword comes from ‘The I’ […]

Adjectives are useful words. They make conversations colourful and interesting. Listen the next time you’re speaking with someone. They will use adjectives which fit into any of […]

I know how much you like vocabulary, so I thought we could introduce a new feature – a weekly crossword. Courtesy of The I newspaper, every […]

For both beginners and more advanced students it can be difficult to understand English when it’s spoken at a natural speed. Problems can include: speakers running […]

Crosswords are a great way to improve your English skills and clues open up new doorways into the English language. Colloquial English (slang) is often featured […]

The long-awaited EU Settlement Scheme has now arrived! If you are Swiss or from the EU or EEA and would like to live and work in […]

Anxiety Attacks! Imagine you’re ill or injured. You’re worried, in pain and anxious. One of the first people you meet is a frontline healthcare worker. They ask […]

How appropriate is the Life in the UK Citizenship Test for living real life in the UK? According to a recent study, not that relevant at […]

If you ever thought that soft skills were unnecessary for OET speaking then you were, and are, very much mistaken! The updated OET speaking sub-test has […]