Learn English at Home
Online courses for Level 1 learners
Future Learn provide a variety of flexible online courses to develop different skills. These courses are free to register:
Exploring English language and culture
Exploring English: Shakespeare
FREE Online lessons
BBC Learning English has an online course with videos and quizzes designed to help you develop your practical English skills for living in the UK
There is a variety of online lessons from ESOL Courses designed to help you develop the English you need for looking for work.
Level 1 Topic Work
Try these activities from ESOL courses to practise different skills:
IELTS reading and writing: tourism in the UK
Environmental issues- London air pollution
New Internationalist Easier English Wiki provides lots of reading activities on topical issues, with the opportunity to practise your grammar and vocabulary too:
Speaking and Listening
Here are some activities from Learn English Teens to develop your speaking:
Pros and cons of mobile phones
Test English has various activities to practise your listening skills:
Islamic fashion gains popularity
For a fun listening activity, go to Lyrics Training– find your favourite song and type in the lyrics as you listen.
Reading
Learn English Teens has a variety of texts and activities to work on your reading skills:
The British Council Learn English website has lots of reading activities to develop your vocabulary:
Do you enjoy reading stories? Try reading short stories on the British Council’s Learn English website:
There are also lots of interesting reading activities from Test English:
Should motherhood define me?
Writing
Read this guide from Using English on how to write a formal letter.
Learn English Teens has various activities on different types of writing:
Try these tasks from British Council Learn English on writing for different purposes:
Test English also has some activities to practise your writing skills:
Grammar
Visit the Langeek website for some useful articles on a variety of grammar features.
Watch these fun Grammar Gameshow videos from BBC Learn English:
Try these activities from English File Online:
Headway also has many activities to practise grammar online:
Test English has many different activities for practising grammar:
Vocabulary
You can find activities on British Council Learn English  to learn the meaning, pronunciation and spelling of new words:
Games to Learn English has different activities to practise your vocabulary:
Look at these resources from ESOL Courses to develop your vocabulary:
Vocabulary for talking about Covid-19
Pronunciation
Go to BBC Learning English website for their videos on a range of pronunciation features.
