Portsmouth – What to See What to Do
Portsmouth Accent If you would like to know more about the Portsmouth accent have a look at this blog. Click here. Best Place to Visit Portsmouth was recently recommended as a top place to vis...
Linguaskill Test now available at LSI Portsmouth
LSI Portsmouth is now a Linguaskill Test Centre From December 2019, LSI Portsmouth has been offering the possibility of taking the Linguaskill test at LSI Portsmouth, this replaces the BULATS test....
The 7 Best Ways to Improve Your English
How to improve your English It's the new year and a new decade. It's the time when many people think about ways to improve a skill or to change a habit. Why not make this year be the ye...
Happy Christmas – We are closing now for the Holidays
We will open again on the 6th January - bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready for a brand new year.
LSI Portsmouth is now an OET Premium Preparation Provider
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...
Having a Very Crafty Christmas Afternoon
Christmas Crafternoon Here at LSI Portsmouth we pride ourselves on running a varied and interesting social programme (https://www.lsi-portsmouth.co.uk/social-programme/). When our intern, Dana aske...
Charity Bake Sale at LSI Portsmouth for Urbond.org
Charity Bake Sale In November, LSI Portsmouth hosted a bake sale in order to raise money for a local charity URBOND (https://www.urbond.org/). We had a great selection of cakes and even some sa...
Our Fab New Facebook Banner
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. ...
Watch TV to Improve your English Listening – with Jack...
Listening to the TV for your English Of the four communication skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing), many people find listening to be the most challenging. With listening you have to t...
Reasons to be a TEFL teacher
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...
What is going on with Brexit?
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...
How Pinterest can unlock your English
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 ...
Learn to Think in English – Learning Tip from Caroline
Thinking In English Perhaps one of the most difficult things to do when learning a language is to try and think in that language. It really isn’t that easy to do! However, it’s not impossible a...
Looking for Teachers to join our team
We are unexpectedly looking for some new teachers to join our team. More details here
Can you Unlearn Learning? The Problems with Learning Languag...
Should you Unlearn in order to Learn. Recently a teacher here at LSI Portsmouth came up with an interesting idea to discuss when talking about the process of learning. Unlearning learning. The...
Is Cultural Knowledge and Language interconnected?
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...
Where to go in Portsmouth and Southsea
Our Favourite 8 places to visit in Portsmouth 1. Gunwharf Quays Looking for a nice place to go shopping? Up for some bowling with your friends? Or do you just want to have a drink with y...