The British Council provides various digital resources so that you can learn English at home.
Learn English online at home
Children and young learners
Courses
Students: Lower Secondary and Secondary Plus
We use a specially designed learning platform or learning hub so that our students can follow English courses at home. Find out more about English Online courses for kids and teens.
Posts from our blog
- 6 tips for improving your child's English using films
- Activities in English for primary-aged children
- 6 books in English your child has to read!
- How can I make learning English fun for my children?
- How do young children learn languages?
Resources
- British Council: LearnEnglish Kids
- British Council: LearnEnglish Teens
- British Council YouTube: LearnEnglish Kids
- British Council YouTube: LearnEnglish Teens
- Learning Time with Timmy: our fun series for our youngest learners with more than 70 videos
Apps
The British Council offers you a wide range of English language learning apps, including games, podcasts, films and quizzes. It's a great way to improve your grammar and vocabulary and also to prepare for exams.
Adults
Courses
You can attend our English courses online via videoconference.
The classes are all live and face-to-face. You can talk to the other students and teacher, do group-work, and actively participate in the class, just as you normally do.
More information about online English courses.
Posts from our Blog
- Learn English through watching films...
- 10 useful expressions in English
- 7 ways to shine at a job interview in English
- "Traditional" British Food – myth and reality
- 6 ideas to revise your English vocabulary
- Use pop songs to learn connected speech and sound more fluent in English
Resources
- British Council: LearnEnglish
- British Council YouTube: LearnEnglish
- British Council: Premier Skills – English + football
- British Council Nexus – English + learn more about living and working in the UK
Apps
The British Council offers a wide range of apps to help you learn English – and more – through games, podcasts, films and quizzes. It's a great way to improve your knowledge, especially of grammar and vocabulary, as well as prepare for an exam.
Exam preparation
IELTS and CAMBRIDGE Exams
We are offering online Exam Preparation Courses for both IELTS and Cambridge exams.
APTIS
Aptis provides reliable, accurate results about the English skills in your organisation, in Speaking, Writing and Reading and Listening Comprehension.
Apps
The British Council offers a wide range of apps to help you learn English – and more – through games, podcasts, films and quizzes. It's a great way to improve your knowledge, especially of grammar and vocabulary, as well as prepare for an exam.
Teachers of English
Art and Culture
Film
- explore a directory of British films
- download films from the historic British Council Film Collection.
Visual Arts
For 80 years the British Council has been collecting works of art, craft and design to promote abroad the achievements of British artists, craft practitioners and designers. Our collection of more than 8,500 works of British art can be viewed in our online collection.
Music
#SelectorRadio broadcasts the best UK music and emerging talent to over 30 countries around the world. The weekly, two-hour show is presented by leading next-generation DJ, Jamz Supernova.
In Portugal, you can hear #SelectorRadio through our broadcast partner, Rádio SBSR.FM:
- Lisbon: 90.4 | Porto: 91.0
- Saturday: 12.00-14.00 or Sunday: 20.00-22.00
You can hear previous editions via the Selector site.
Find more resources in our Blog