Below you will find a list of useful English resources from across the web

IELTS Resources and Practice

Official IELTS website
Information and advice about the IELTS test. 

British Council free practice tests
IELTS practice tests and materials for both Academic and General Training tests on the British Council website.

IELTS blog and individual lessons
Advice and suggestions about the IELTS.

IELTS tips and lessons
A wide range of lessons, topics and model answers to assist with IELTS preparation.

General Language Practice

Learn English
Grammar and vocabulary, listening, writing, games, and tips for IELTS on the British Council website.

Videos (with subtitles and vocabulary exercises)
Lots of short videos, filtered by “academic”, “business”, “social” etc. with follow-up exercises.

Listening

BBC Podcasts
Wide variety of programmes filtered by genres such as comedy, factual, and learning.

British Council Listening
Activities to practise your listening skills with accompanying self-study lessons. They also host podcasts.

TED Talks
Video presentations of talks, including subtitle options.

Elllo
This site contains hundreds of recordings that can be useful for listening practice.

Reading

Free e-books from Project Gutenberg
Over 70,000 books free to download.

Grammar

Englisch Hilfen
A very useful site to practise English grammar at all levels. It is written for a German audience, so make sure you’re in the English version!

Grammar Quizzes
A collection of grammar quizzes for English as a second language.

Pronunciation

BBC Learning English
Useful practice exercises for pronunciation with PDFs available for download.

Ship or Sheep
Practise individual sounds.