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...
English Conversation Club in Kaliningrad, Russia
A conversation with Ksenia Recently, I’ve made friends with Ksenia, a successful English language teacher who runs a conversation club in Kaliningrad. We became friends because we both share a lo...
How learning English changes lives: Deniz’s story
Deniz (back row, second from the right) with his IELTS classmates We have all read the news stories and seen the images of people becoming displaced and seeking refuge across the world. The Ref...
Top 10 romantic movies to improve your English
Top 10 romantic movies to improve your English Valentine’s day, the day of romance is coming, which made us wonder: What are the top romantic movies to improve your English? Catt and I have lis...
Our English language school gets a visit from Vietnam
Vietnamese Students study at LSI Portsmouth Recently, we had an amazing group of Vietnamese students come to study with us. All of us at LSI Portsmouth were delighted to meet them. Here, Ross and R...
Out with the Old in with the New.
We've Been Through So Much The LSI blog was started in 2012. In that time there have been approx 450 Blogs. They have covered everything from how to improve your English to lovely teachers leav...
Intercultural Communication – Case Study on our Specia...
Cross Cultural Communication Last year Josefina from France came to the school to follow our cross cultural communication course. We asked her if she would tell us about her experience: ...
The News – Learning Tip to Improve your English from ...
How to Improve your English One of the best ways to improve your language skills is your ability to communicate about topics that are in the news at the moment. There are of course lots of ways to...
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...