Self-Study Ideas · 04. August 2016

"Five Minutes With ..." is a series of short interviews created by the BBC with a huge range of interesting people. Each interview is exactly five minutes long, and usually involves lots of short questions and answers. Click here to see the list of interviews on the BBC website.

Self-Study Ideas · 08. July 2016

Quizlet is a website that allows people to create and share “sets” of vocabulary. Each set is a group of words, with translations or definitions. You can look through them, or do various activities to test how well you know them. If you want to create your own sets, or share sets with other people, you’ll need to log in. You can do this with just an email address and password, or using Google or Facebook. Different things to do on Quizlet: - Search for a topic that you’d like to study,...

Self-Study Ideas · 12. June 2016

TED is an organisation that encourages people to share their ideas in short talks. There's a huge library of videos these talks on the TED website, and you can choose talks according to topic area, language, and length. They're a great way to improve your listening - and therefore your speaking, too. Below are some suggestions of ways to use TED talks in self-study. You don't have to do all the exercises for each talk - just choose one to start with.