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As part of the BBC World Service, BBC Learning English has been teaching English to global audiences since 1943, offering free audio, video and text materials to learners around the world. BBC Learning English provides multimedia English language teaching materials to meet learners' needs.

BBC Learning English is a department of the BBC World Service devoted to English language teaching. The service provides free resources and activities for teachers and students, primarily through its website.

CareerWise offers a curated selection of relevant and thought-provoking articles on education, skills, counselling, employment and the workforce from a variety of publications. It also features original perspectives and timely analysis from recognized experts and community voices, as well as round-ups of popular resources and events. New articles are added daily.

Our popular weekly newsletter, CareerWise Weekly, sends the best of the website directly to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday.

The Learning English with CBC website is a project between CBC Edmonton and the Alberta government.  The website contains interactive tools - a podcast, video news stories and interactive quizzes at CBL levels 4 and 6, which may be adapted for other levels. New content is posted weekly. The focus is on soft skills to support real world interactions, using local stories from Alberta with broad appeal.  Learners can use the site with mobile devices or in school settings.

This is an American news website is designed for mainstream classrooms, but is adaptable for English learners (5 reading levels) and set for designed for distance learning; it allows teachers to assign online learning activities to classes. The content includes news stories and articles about law, science, sports, opinion and arts and culture. Support for educators is offered.  Teachers without a subscription may access news stories only.

The Westcoast Reader (The WCR) is a newspaper and online resource for learners. It is published 10 months a year from September to June. The Westcoast Reader is published by Decoda Literacy Solutions in partnership with Camosun College with financial assistance from the BC Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills.