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:

• Lesson-based AI speaking activities - Short speaking activities you can do after a class to practise what you’ve learned.
• Theme-based AI speaking tasks - Speaking tasks at the end of each theme to review your progress. These include downloadable feedback.

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.