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• IELTS v TOEFL

• Who’s responsible for teaching your child to read?

• Mumpreneurs in Barcelona

• The internet and learner independence

English Language

• Lost for words?
• Making a bee line!
• Learning English: the smart thing to do during the recession
• A Reason to Read
• Twittering about Twitter
• Translation Teasers
• Motivating your students this summer!
• iPass Word of the Week
• Word of the Week
• Word of the Week
• American English v British English
• Am English v Br English - Dialogue 2
• Am English v Br English - Dialogue 3
• Am English v Br English - Dialogue 4
• How to be more polite in English!
• How to form indirect questions
• Test your grammar!
• Answers to grammar quiz
• IELTS writing workshop - question about linkers
• Grammar Spot: narrative tenses

Film

• Revolutionary Road
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Reader
• No sex please! We're not in New York!

Hot Topics

• The Dividing Factor
• Best Left To The Family Album?
• England reach an all-time Capel - low
• Give yourself a Christmas present this year, buy a great value iPass course and improve your English

IELTS News

• IELTS celebrates 20 years
• Oral Feedback on IELTS Writing Skills
• IELTS Reading tips

IELTS Writing workshop

• IELTS writing workshop - Task 2 questions

iPass News

• iPass Press Release
• iPass Press Release May 2009
• NEW iPass IELTS preparation course begins!
• New Blog Competition! Win €50!
• iPass Press Release October 2009
• Win a FREE English Course!!
• NEW English Course at iPass!
• Oral Feedback on IELTS Writing Skills
• New self-cancellation subscriptions
• Win a FREE English course!
• iPass Member of the Month!
• IELTS Reading tips
• Summer Storywriting Competition
• iPass Member of the Month!
• iPass IELTS success stories!!

Literature

• Dear Dawn French
• Choices – to be or not to be, that is the question
• A meatier read this summer!

Society

• To put or not to put – what to include in a CV?
• The writing is (still) on the wall
• Choices – a chance to have your say
• Choices – Barack: could he have done better?
• Choices - Little food for thought
• Choices – a moving experience?
• Choices – The Beatles: we love you, yeah, yeah, yeah?
• Looking back at 2009
• Google - innovation, disruption and still making the world a better place
• Choices: is Big Brother watching you?
• Choices: The parties we love to hate?
• Is the art of conversation dead?
• The beauty of maps
• Mince Pies anyone? It’s that time again.....
• Looking back at 2010
• Fun Quiz on British Etiquette!
• Who discovered ....?

Toolbox

• August Language Toolbox

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Help with grammar

• How to be more polite in English!
• How to form indirect questions
• Test your grammar!
• Answers to grammar quiz
• Grammar Spot: narrative tenses

Help with vocabulary

• American English v British English
• Am English v Br English - Dialogue 2
• Am English v Br English - Dialogue 3
• Am English v Br English - Dialogue 4
• IELTS writing workshop - question about linkers