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Prepositions after verbs in IELTS speaking and writing
Learn about prepositions after verbs, essential knowledge for the IELTS exam.
Memory Techniques: Using a Mind Map
The first in our series of blogs about memory techniques looks at mind maps.
A story with modal verbs
There are lots of modal verbs in English. Test your knowledge of modal verbs with our blog.
Life on our Fast-track Business Foundation Course
Kebe from Mali and Francois from Belgium both studied our Business Fast-track course. Beginning in January the course runs for two terms, graduating at the same time as our other University Pathways students. We spoke to them both about life on the fast-track programme.
Meet our University Foundation Pathways Class 2017-2018
We said an emotional goodbye to our University Foundation Programme (UFP) class 2017-2018 in June, but before they left we spoke to them about their time at Bell, and what the future holds.
Adjectives that begin with WELL
Our students have been thinking about using a variety of adjectives in our speaking and writing, as it is easy to use the same ones over and over again.
Criminal Vocabulary
Crime is one of the topic areas that often comes up in all areas of the IELTS test: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Test your knowledge of criminal words, and their meaning.
A trip down memory lane
We recently had a visit from a group who studied at Bell in the 70s, and having become good friends, they continue to regularly meet up. They returned to Bell to celebrate 40 years since they studied in Cambridge.
Silent Letters at the Beginning and at the End of Words
Some English words have silent letters. Find out more about them and try to guess the word being described in our task.
Sentence Variation in IELTS Writing Part 1
A challenge of IELTS writing for Part 1 is to try to have sentence variety. Practice with our task below.
Improve your IELTS writing score by commenting on data
Add value to your Task 1 essay (and improve your writing score) by learning some ways to comment on the data shown in the writing paper of the IELTS Academic exam
IELTS vocabulary for urban topics
This week we have been preparing for IELTS and studying vocabulary related to urban issues.