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Grammar Lab
This lab practises the form, function and distribution of English words, phrases, clauses and sentences.
✔ up to 31 tasks across 5 topics
✔ 45+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 350+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
This interactive lab has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer practice in applying advanced grammar structures and avoiding ungrammatical words, phrases and clauses.
Use this lab to practice the adjectives, nouns and verbs that are most common in academic essays, dissertations and presentations, and develop competence in identifying appropriate form, meaning, function and structure and in recognising sentence run-ons, sentence fragments, comma splices and other punctuation errors.
Whether teaching or studying, and whatever your major, our engaging grammar lab is proven to be useful for improving skills that support advanced-level written and spoken English – particularly in academic contexts.
Explore tasks about:
➲ Affixation
➲ Verbs
➲ Phrases
➲ Sentences
➲ Punctuation
Use this lab to:
+ improve confidence in fixing advanced grammar errors
+ develop competence in forming and using accurate affixes, words, phrases, clauses and sentences
+ gain experience in identifying grammatical structures in authentic academic texts
+ better understand how to punctuate phrases, dependent clauses, independent clauses and conjunctive adverbs
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✔ gain free access to this lab
✔ enjoy flexible learning and learner autonomy
✔ unlock the activities that interest you most
✔ download helpful written and audio lab texts
✔ connect with other students and tutors
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Listening Lab
This lab offers practise in general and academic listening strategies using authentic listening texts.
✔ up to 36 tasks across 12 topics
✔ 50+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 350+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
This interactive lab has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer practice in gist, specific and inference listening skills, encouraging an active use of the strategies that help achieve listening success.
Use this lab to practice listening skills and strategies for a variety of authentic audio texts, with engaging and up-to-date topics that provide a foundation for controlled and freer practice in preparatory, synchronous and reflective listening activities.
Whether you are a tutor, a language learner, or your major is Business, Economics, English or Engineering, our engaging listening lab helps support university-level studies in advanced English through the development of academic skills.
Explore tasks about:
➲ A Numbers Game ➲ Accessing the Arts
➲ Being the 1% ➲ Designing the Future
➲ Equality and Freedoms ➲ Evolving Technologies
➲ Fighting for Peace ➲ Healthy Living
➲ Language Perceptions ➲ Natural Disasters
➲ The Environment Crisis ➲ The Space Race
Use this lab to:
+ improve listening ability in a variety of authentic contexts, with topics such as ‘evolving technologies’ and ‘the environment crisis’
+ practice listening for gist, specific detail and inference listening with pre-, during and post-listening activities
+ develop skills in memorising and recalling audial information
+ learn to better prepare for and reflect upon advanced-level academic listening texts and topics
Join the community and:
✔ gain free access to this lab
✔ enjoy flexible learning and learner autonomy
✔ unlock the activities that interest you most
✔ download helpful written and audio lab texts
✔ connect with other students and tutors
✔ request support from our academic consultants
Reading Lab
This lab applies general and academic reading strategies to authentic reading texts and activities.
✔ up to 36 tasks across 12 topics
✔ 50+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 350+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
This interactive lab has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer practice in skim, scan and inference reading skills, encouraging an active use of the strategies that help achieve reading success.
Use this lab to practice reading skills and strategies for a variety of authentic written texts, with engaging and up-to-date topics that provide a foundation for controlled and freer practice in preparatory, synchronous and reflective reading activities.
Whether you are a tutor, a language learner, or your major is Business, Economics, English or Engineering, our engaging reading lab helps support university-level studies in advanced English through the development of academic skills.
Explore tasks about:
➲ A Numbers Game ➲ Accessing the Arts
➲ Being the 1% ➲ Designing the Future
➲ Equality and Freedoms ➲ Evolving Technologies
➲ Fighting for Peace ➲ Healthy Living
➲ Language Perceptions ➲ Natural Disasters
➲ The Environment Crisis ➲ The Space Race
Use this lab to:
+ improve reading ability in a variety of authentic contexts, with topics such as ‘evolving technologies’ and ‘the environment crisis’
+ practice skim reading, scan reading and inference reading with pre-, during and post-reading activities
+ develop skills in memorising and recalling written information
+ learn to better prepare for and reflect upon advanced-level academic reading texts and topics
Join the community and:
✔ gain free access to this lab
✔ enjoy flexible learning and learner autonomy
✔ unlock the activities that interest you most
✔ download helpful written and audio lab texts
✔ connect with other students and tutors
✔ request support from our academic consultants
Vocabulary Lab
This lab practises techniques related to academic style and checks functional and high-frequency vocabulary.
✔ up to 30 tasks across 5 topics
✔ 45+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 300+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
This interactive lab has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer practice in recognising, forming and memorising academic vocabulary and lexical relations.
Use this lab to practice the conjunctions, nouns and verbs that are most common in academic essays, dissertations and presentations, and develop competence in identifying the informal language structures that should be avoided as well as the subject-specific vocabulary that should be exemplified and explained.
For anyone looking to improve their academic skills, knowledge and English proficiency, our engaging vocabulary lab is proven to develop competencies that support advanced written and spoken English.
Explore tasks about:
➲ Academic Words
➲ Essay Language
➲ Informal Language
➲ Word Relations
➲ Subject-Specific Vocabulary
Use this lab to:
+ improve confidence in advanced-English vocabulary
+ develop competence in forming and using accurate words and phrases, particularly in academic contexts
+ gain experience in using antonyms, synonyms and polysemes to enhance written and spoken texts
+ better know, memorise and apply the subject-specific vocabulary that relates to a given major of study
Join the community and:
✔ gain free access to this lab
✔ enjoy flexible learning and learner autonomy
✔ unlock the activities that interest you most
✔ download helpful written and audio lab texts
✔ connect with other students and tutors
✔ request support from our academic consultants
Writing Lab
This lab provides activities and texts that aim to check and improve writing strategies and techniques.
✔ up to 23 tasks across 4 topics
✔ 30+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 200+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
This interactive lab has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer practice in recognising, forming, drafting and editing various written academic genres, such as essays, emails and literature reviews.
Access this lab and explore authentic examples of academic correspondence, paragraphs, short essays and dissertations, and develop competencies in writing the key elements that form these genres. By completing activities and tasks, students will also improve academic style and develop a bank of functional language structures.
Whether you’re looking to improve your academic knowledge and skills or simply develop language proficiency, our engaging writing lab is proven to support advanced skills in written English.
Explore tasks about:
➲ Correspondence
➲ Paragraphs
➲ Short Essays
➲ Extended Essays
Use this lab to:
+ improve confidence in genre-based academic writing
+ develop competence in forming accurate sentences and paragraphs
+ gain experience in recognising, forming, drafting and editing various essay types and elements
+ be exposed to authentic examples of academic correspondence, paragraphs, short essays and extended dissertations
Join the community and:
✔ gain free access to this lab
✔ enjoy flexible learning and learner autonomy
✔ unlock the activities that interest you most
✔ download helpful written and audio lab texts
✔ connect with other students and tutors
✔ request support from our academic consultants