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Following the closure of the University of Surrey's IELTS operations in June 2019, MTS is pleased to announce that it was successful in winning a competitive tender recently put out by the British

In my last blog post, I looked at variations in everyday English used in the workplace in Britain and America. In this blog post, I look at differences in the kind of idiomatic English used on both sides of the Atlantic. When you’re studying English, your teacher may well give you some useful phrases that we use in more informal situations, such as the expression, “it’s raining cats and dogs”, which means that it’s raining very heavily. Well, this is an idiom. An idiom is a phrase that doesn’t literally mean what it says. So in the case above, there are no actual cats and dogs falling from the sky. Idioms are of course quite culturally specific, so some of them just don’t translate well between English speaking countries. Let’s look at some of the funnier ones from Britain and America. How many do you know?

“The English and the Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.”

So, your test date is approaching, and as the time you’ve got left ticks down, your panic levels go up.

It’s something that linguists, neurologists, speech therapists, programmers and language learners have been researching for ages. Just how do we learn a language and, in particular, vocabulary?

Have you ever wondered why your classmate, friend, or colleague can hear something once in a new language and remember how to say it perfectly the next time, but for you, the word has gone *poof* l

There are several ways you can prepare for your IELTS speaking test.

Back in 2013, it was predicted that online tests would come to replace paper exams within a decade.

Today, we're going to look at some specific tips relating to both the IELTS writing tasks.

I’m going to be writing a series of blog posts to help you boost your IELTS band score. Let’s start with some tips for the IELTS writing tasks.

If you’re sitting at home with a nice cup of tea, wondering to yourself whether studying English online is really for you, you’ve just hit on one of the benefits yourself. Education is becoming inc