English practice
Explore English through words, conversations and everyday situations.
C1AdultsA conversation you can use
A C1+ (advanced plus) guide to writing a theatre review in English: turn precise staging details into audience effects and interpretation, weigh a genuine weakness, add emphasis with clefts and inversion, and justify your recommendation.
C1AdultsA conversation you can use
A C1 guide to describing a colleague you have mixed feelings about: four moves from concession to a qualified conclusion, phrasal verbs with get, and phrases such as that said and to be fair.
C1BusinessA conversation you can use
C1 English for proposing a workplace change: grading certainty with might, likely and bound to, future forms for plans and deadlines, hard and soft data, answering concerns, and a 170–200-word proposal where expansion depends on audited evidence, not speed.
C1AdultsNotice the pattern
A C1+ (advanced plus) guide to past ability in English: when could works, why one achieved result needs was able to or managed to, which negatives fit, and how be able to fills the gaps can leaves.
C1AdultsA conversation you can use
A C1 guide to a 220–280-word reflective article about a memory you once misread: a five-move plan, layered past forms, used to and would, hedging and an ending that follows from the evidence.
C1BusinessA conversation you can use
C1 English for proposing how to keep freelance or contract specialists: building on ideas in a meeting, rephrasing under challenge, third and mixed conditionals for past decisions, career-path verbs and a 170–200-word recommendation with measures and a reversal condition.
C1AdultsA conversation you can use
A C1+ (advanced plus) guide to questioning advice in spoken English: test the conditions it depends on, ask what the adviser gains, concede what holds, and use will, would, should and shall precisely.
C1AdultsA conversation you can use
A C1 guide to the covering email in English: a four-paragraph plan, two achievements chosen for the advert, one quantified result, linkers with the right grammar, and confidence that rests on evidence rather than praise.
C1BusinessA conversation you can use
C1 language for reporting workplace research in English: separating what you saw from what you were told, stating sample limits, keeping association apart from cause, choosing tenses that show the research stage and writing a 170–200-word decision brief.
