Learn English at Home
Online courses for Level 2 learners
Future Learn provide a variety of flexible online courses to develop different skills. You will need to pay to join these courses:
Exploring English language and culture
Exploring English: Shakespeare
Have a look at this online course on BBC Learning English, Towards Advanced. It covers different elements of learning English, such as grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
Speaking and Listening
 British Council Learn English has a variety of activities to practise your listening skills on abstract topics and in unfamiliar situations:
Randal’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab provides a wide range of listening activities with comprehension questions and further activities to develop your listening skills:
Another way to enhance your listening skills and engage with new ideas is TED Talks. It has thousands of videos of authentic expert speakers topics related to education, science, technology, business and creativity.
For a fun listening activity, go to Lyrics Training– find your favourite song and type in the lyrics as you listen.
Reading
To expand your reading skills, the British Council has some activities to practise reading long complex texts on a variety of topics.
Writing
The British Council provides various practise activities to develop your writing skills for different purposes:
There is also a section of their website on writing for college and university assignments.
Vocabulary
Shakespeare Speaks is a series from BBC Learning English, which looks at some of the vocabulary that William Shakespeare brought to the language.
Session 3: As dead as a door nail
Session 4: I’ll send him packing
Games to Learn English has different activities to practise your vocabulary:
Pronunciation
Go to BBC Learning English website for their videos on a range of pronunciation features.
