Learn English With Photos 2.0 iTunes U Course

Following the unexpected success of my first "Learn English With Photos" course on iTunes U (over 140,000 students enrolled!), I'm pleased to announce that "Learn English With Photos 2.0" is now available. In addition to the ten photo-based videos I've already posted on this blog, you get PDF transcripts and glossaries, crosswords, word search puzzles, and quizzes. You can subscribe to the course here.

BBC Learning English Lower Intermediate Course

When I started this blog over 10 years ago BBC Learning English was easily the best ESL/EFL/ELT site on the web. Since then, of course, many other excellent sites have appeared (and a lot of terrible ones too!), but BBCLE remains a model of the genre. For example, this week the thirtieth and final episode of their Lower Intermediate Course was posted. So you now have a complete state-of-the art, 30-lesson course with video, quizzes, vocabulary and grammar notes — all for free. Let's hope they now follow that up with a more advanced course along the same lines.

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When BBCLE revamped their site last year, a lot of the old resources were archived and are not available on the new site. However, you can still access this enormous treasure trove of teaching and learning material here.

BBC Learning English Intermediate Course

Last week I did a post about the BBC Learning English Lower-Intermediate course, which is now complete. I expressed the hope that they would follow it up with a more advanced course. Well, someone at the BBC must have been listening because they've just launched an Intermediate course. It follows the same format as the previous course, which means that there will be 30 weekly units, each containing several 'sessions' (or lessons) with an emphasis on grammar and vocabulary.

COMMENT
I know I've said it before, but I do think that BBC Learning English is the best free ESL site on the web, and probably better than a lot of ones you have to pay for. Does anyone disagree?