English resources

Knowledge

• British Council LearnEnglish: B1-B2 grammar Test-explain-retest lessons on tense, aspect, modality, conditionals, verb patterns, prepositions, and common intermediate contrasts. Use for: primary grammar practice after each course explanation.
• Cambridge Dictionary: English Grammar Today Expert reference organised around actual forms, meanings, contrasts, and common errors. Use for: resolving a grammar question with attested examples rather than a memorised slogan.
• Cambridge Dictionary: clauses Reference for statement, question, command, and exclamation word order plus clause functions. Use for: sentence-engine and clause-expansion lessons.
• Cambridge Dictionary: tenses and time Separates verb forms from time meanings and explains how English expresses past, present, and future. Use for: the four tense-and-aspect lessons.
• Cambridge Dictionary: verbs Comprehensive reference for verb forms, patterns, phrasal verbs, passive voice, modality, conditions, and irregular verbs. Use for: verb-partnership lessons and error diagnosis.
• British Council LearnEnglish: B1-B2 vocabulary Topic-based activities connecting meaning, pronunciation, spelling, and retrieval. Use for: regular vocabulary input at an intermediate level.
• English Profile: introducing the English Vocabulary Profile Corpus-informed account of how word meanings, phrases, phrasal verbs, and grammar distribute across CEFR levels. Use for: choosing useful senses and phrases instead of collecting rare words.
• Cambridge English: learner activities Short level-filtered activities across grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Use for: targeted practice after a gap appears in real output.
• Council of Europe: CEFR Companion Volume Validated descriptors for linguistic, pragmatic, phonological, receptive, productive, interactive, and mediating competence. Use for: judging broad language growth rather than test technique.
• British Council LearnEnglish: B2 listening Extended standard speech with audio, comprehension tasks, and transcripts. Use for: hearing grammar and vocabulary in connected speech.
• British Council LearnEnglish: B2 speaking Contextual models for explaining, challenging, advising, persuading, and solving problems. Use for: turning new grammar and vocabulary into interaction.
• British Council LearnEnglish: B2 writing Model-led practice for emails, reports, summaries, and essays. Use for: paragraph structure, register, and language editing.
• British Council TeachingEnglish: connected speech Account of linking, intrusion, elision, and weak forms. Use for: recognising known grammar in fast speech and improving intelligibility.
• Digital.gov: Plain language guide series Official audience-first writing guidance. Use for: clear professional messages after grammar and cohesion are under control.
• IELTS: Academic sample test questions Official tasks and answer keys. Use only for occasional external measurement after language practice, not as the course syllabus.

Wisdom (Communities)

• English Language Learners Stack Exchange Reputation-based, moderated explanations of grammar, meaning, word choice, and register. Use for: testing a disputed usage question against evidence and counterexamples.
• r/EnglishLearning Large moderated learner community with feedback from native and advanced users. Use for: checking whether a phrase sounds natural in a specific situation.
• Toastmasters International: find a club In-person, online, and hybrid groups with repeated speaking and peer feedback. Use for: testing intelligibility, explanation, and presentation language with real listeners.

Gaps

• A general course cannot predict first-language transfer errors without learner output; the baseline and error log must personalise later practice.
• Real interaction still requires another person; recorded solo practice cannot fully train turn timing, negotiation, or social register.