AiBC is the British Council’s AI engine, created to make learning English more interactive and personal. It powers new AI speaking activities that give you extra opportunities to practise English in real-life situations, whenever it fits your schedule.
Developed by British Council experts, AiBC builds on decades of teaching and assessment experience. It isn’t a replacement for your teacher – it’s a way to make your learning more flexible and effective.
After your live lessons, you’ll unlock AI speaking activities. These will help you:
After completing all lessons in a theme, you’ll unlock an AI speaking task:
Once unlocked, you can repeat each activity as many times as you like. Every session helps you strengthen what you learned in class and prepares you for your next lesson.
Our AI speaking practice is part of the same approach that makes British Council teaching trusted around the world. Your teacher helps you understand and apply new language, while AI speaking activities give you extra time to practise using it on your own.
This combination brings together the best of both worlds:
Teachers guide, motivate and give expert feedback
AI provides unlimited, judgement-free practice whenever you want
You build real confidence to communicate clearly and naturally
Speaking English confidently can change everything – at work, in study, and in life. Our AI speaking activities help you practise safely, see your progress clearly, and feel ready to use English in real situations.
With British Council teachers and AI working together, you learn from real experts and practise with smart digital tools designed to help you progress faster.
AiBC is the British Council’s AI engine, created to make learning English more interactive and personal. It powers new AI speaking activities that give you extra opportunities to practise English in real-life situations, whenever it fits your schedule.
Developed by British Council experts, AiBC builds on decades of teaching and assessment experience. It isn’t a replacement for your teacher - it’s a way to make your learning more flexible and effective.
We offer different types of AI speaking activities to help you practise real-life communication and improve your fluency:
You’ll find these activities in our student platform in the "practise after class" or "themes" section. You can repeat them as many times as you like to build confidence.
It varies based on the type of activity and the level at which a student is at.
Theme-based exercises will likely take longer than lesson-based exercises.
For students at lower levels of English, a theme exercise could be around 5 minutes. For students at higher levels, a theme-based exercise could take around 10 minutes or longer.
It varies but conversations for theme-based tasks are generally about 7 minutes (of back and forth). The bot will end the conversation when it sees the exercise as complete. You can end a conversation at any point. However, feedback will not be provided for theme-based tasks if you have not spoken enough. When you go to end the conversation, you will be notified if you have spoken enough to provide feedback.
