Why Learn English?

This course demonstrates a variety of tools that we use on our online courses, but we can't provide access to all of them right away. This page explains the additional benefits of being a member of one of our paid courses.

Review the course syllabus and an in-depth explanation of all the activities in this course. This provides you with a clear structure of the course and you can decide which activities you want to complete.

We set out the objectives for this course in an itemised list so you can clearly see what you are aiming for in this course.

Read some fun facts about the English language in our self-paced presentation. Learn how many people speak the English language, how many words we have in English and why Shakespeare was so important for English.

Fill out this quiz to tell us where you come from and introduce yourself to our other course members. You can simply fill in an online quiz to compare your answers to other users or write an introduction paragraph in our online forum.

Go through this presentation at your own pace to learn the vocabulary for all numbers between 0 and 100. There is an in-built exercise in this self-paced presentation too with full answers, so you can put into practice everything you learn.

This presentation looks at numbers between 100 and 1000. We explain exactly how to say all these numbers and there is an in-built exercise in this self-paced presentation so you can check your understanding.

Read through this text before answering some reading comprehension questions about it. This text explains the most popular reasons why people learn English and some of the benefits it brings to people.

After writing something in English, it's always a good idea to read through it again to check for any mistakes. Use our writing checklist to help you avoid making silly mistakes.

Answer this question in a structured way using our hint questions to guide you. Upload this as an assignment to understand how this tool works for our general English courses.

We want to hear about your experiences of learning English and your top tips for learning languages. You can post your comments in our forum and read about others' experiences with learning English as a foreign language.

Watch our video to listen to our top three tips for learning English as a foreign language.

Watch our listening video again, but this time with the transcript. Using transcripts is a great way to check you understand everything said in a video and to research any new vocabulary that you may not know.

Read about the possible ways we can talk about our backgrounds and nationalities.

Learn how to talk about your background and where you come from correctly using this gammar video to guide you. You can download the slides used in the explanation video as well as an interactive worksheet, which you can answer at the same time as watching the video. We also provide answers for this interactive worksheet. There are two additional resources available to help you talk about your nationality, country, language and person as well as a full transcript with timings to guide you through the video.

Practise talking about your background using our forum. Read where our other course members come from and post your own background to practise using this grammar in real life.

Use our downloadable flashcards to practise this grammar topic by yourself whenever you have time. As well as providing the answers, we explain in detail how to complete this activity.

Review 24 key words from this course in our vocabulary list. You can easily download our vocabulary booklet which provides the vocabulary, definition, word formation, phonetic transcription and example sentence. You can also listen to audios of our native teachers saying these words to ensure your pronunciation is correct. We also provide online flashcards to help you review the vocabulary in this way.

Pratise your new vocabulary and check you understand what all the new words mean using our online vocabulary games. You can play hangman, do a wordsearch, complete a crossword, play word scramble, play match with our online flashcards or listen to the word and spell it correctly.

Review everything you have learnt in this course by accessing all the important summary documents in this one page.

After completing the course, you can review your learning outcomes and achievements.