Studying doesn't have to be boring!
Stax English provides interesting content, engaging videos, and entertaining games to encourage you to stay focused and pass your IELTS Exam.
Learn at your own pace
Stax English was started by two experienced IELTS teachers named Stephen Robson and Christopher Axe (Hence, 'Stax English').
Having taught students of all ages and skillsets, they realized that the most successful way to get students to retain the things they've learned is to make it interesting!
Stax English utilises AI to help students master written conversation, learn new vocabulary and grammar, and expand their knowledge in a dynamic, interactive environment.
Stax English uses games and interactive activites to make learning more engaging. No more sterile workbooks and tedious tests.
Stax English offers modules in history, psychology, science, technology, mythology, economics, geography, and much much more!
Students can choose how they want to improve their English reading & listening by selecting modules that they find interesting and challenging.
Stax English is perfect for learning IELTS reading, writing and listening, and also works well as a general purpose course to help improve English (and other subjects, such as science, history and geography).
For just $1/month, you will have access to 100+ lessons, and new lessons as they are developed, helping to richen your linguistical abilities, general knowledge and career prospects.
We are so confident in our abilities, that if you complete all of the lessons on the course, we guarantee you'll get a 7.5 or above in reading, or we'll reimburse any money you have paid (just send us a copy of your result certificate).
Start learning today!
Engaging content
All of our modules come with interesting videos on a range of subjects. All of these videos come with full transcripts, and rich vocabulary banks, allowing you to listen and read at your own pace, whilst enriching your vocabulary.
Fun games
Some of our modules have optional games and quizzes to add an extra layer of content to the module. Games are not mandatory, but can improve your knowledge of the subject and give you a much needed break from studying.
Well-paced learning
All modules are organized by subject and by difficulty.
Simply choose the subjects you are interested in, then try out a few different modules to find a level of difficulty which is manageable for you, and progress from there.
Example Curriculum
- Free weekly IELTS Lessons
- Reading: The Benefits of Trees (Difficulty 2%)
- Written Conversation Practice: What would happen if everyone planted a tree?
- Writing: Planting trees or building houses? (Task 2 Practice)
- Paraphrasing: The benefits of trees
- Reading: Wind Turbines (Difficulty 3%)
- Written Conversation Practice: What are the advantages of wind power?
- Writing: How do wind turbines work? (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Are wind turbines essential? (Task 2 Practice)
- Paraphrasing: Wind Turbines
- Pronunciation: Wind Turbines
- Reading: Healthy Soils (Difficulty: 5%)
- Written Conversation Practice: How do we make farming smarter?
- Writing: Healthy Soils (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Importing Food (Task 2 Practice)
- Paraphrasing: Healthy Soils
- Pronunciation: Healthy Soils
- Reading: Bear Rehabilitation (Difficulty: 15%)
- Written Conversation Practice: Are Zoos a good thing for animals?
- Writing: Wild animals and conservation (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: Gorillas (Difficulty: 20%) (2:42)
- Paraphrasing: Gorillas
- Writing: Zoos (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: History of Ukraine (Difficulty: 22%) (3:19)
- Writing: How has Ukraine changed? (General writing practice)
- History of the Crossbow (Difficulty: 25%) (2:49)
- Writing: How does a crossbow work? (General writing practice)
- Reading: History of Photography (Difficulty: 27%) (8:49)
- Writing: History of Photography (General writing practice)
- Reading: The Cuban Missile Crisis (Difficulty: 28%) (2:22)
- Writing: Cuban Missile Crisis (General writing practice)
- Reading: History of Halloween (Difficulty: 28%) (3:26)
- Writing: Customs and traditions (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: History of Cup Noodles (Difficulty: 29%) (2:59)
- Writing: How are cup noodles made? (General writing practice - Easy)
- Writing: How are cup noodles made? (General writing practice - Hard)
- Reading: History of Sake (Difficulty: 36%) (2:15)
- Writing: How is Sake made? (General writing practice - Hard)
- Reading: History of Tango (Difficulty: 37%) (2:44)
- Listening: History of Calculus (Difficulty: 38%) (6:42)
- Reading: The Kelly Barnes Disaster (Difficulty: 55%)
- Writing: How do hydroelectric dams work? (Task 1 Practice)
- Reading: History of Vietnam (Difficulty: 82%) (16:59)
- Writing: Cultural contact and national Identity (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: 5 signs you're attractive (Difficulty: 18%) (3:57)
- Writing: Self-esteem and the media (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: 7 ways having a pet can improve your mental health (Difficulty: 26%)
- Writing: Pets (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: How to become a better parent (Difficulty 27%) (4:32)
- Writing: Family relationships (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: 8 Habits of healthy relationships (Difficulty: 30%) (4:57)
- Writing: Arranged marriages (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: Turning awkwardness into confidence (Difficulty: 33%) (3:14)
- Writing: Natural-born leaders (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: 10 rare mental disorders to learn about (Difficulty: 37%) (5:56)
- Writing: Stress (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: 5 Things People Who’ve Been Mentally Abused Do (Difficulty: 37%) (4:14)
- Reading: What is love? (Difficulty: 41%) (3:45)
- Writing: Average Age of Marriage (Task 1 Practice)
- Reading: 6 signs of avoidant personality (Difficulty: 42%) (5:27)
- Writing: Confidence (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: Things a psychopath might say (Difficulty: 49%) (3:36)
- Writing: Criminals (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: 6 Types of Gifted People (Difficulty: 49%) (5:19)
- Writing: Achievement in children (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: How Radios work (Difficulty: 5%)
- Writing: Technology for the Elderly (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: The Cigarette Machine (Difficulty: 15%)
- Reading: Pioneers for Our Planet: How to grow more with less (Difficulty 26%) (2:53)
- Writing: Locally Produced Food (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: Skyscrapers (Difficulty: 29%) (3:00)
- Writing: Technology and Equality (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: How CT Scans work (Difficulty: 30%) (1:26)
- Writing: How do CT Scans work? (Task 1 Practice)
- Reading: How telephones work (Difficulty: 34%) (1:31)
- Writing: The Importance of Phones (Task 2 Practice)
- Listening: How combustion engines work (Difficulty 70%)
- Writing: How do combustion engines work? (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Education or Manual Labour? (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: What is ICT?
- Written Conversation Practice: How has ICT changed our lives?
- Writing: Technology and connectedness (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: Hard Drive Technology (Difficulty: 67%)
- Written Conversation Practice: What are the advantages of different types of computer memory storage?
- Writing: How do hard drives work? (Task 1 Practice)
- Paraphrasing: Hard Drive Technology
- Reading: The Dangers of AI
- Written Conversation Practice: What are the advantages and disadvantages of AI?
- Writing: The future of Artificial Intelligence (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: How Tides Work (Difficulty: 18%)
- Writing: How tides work (Task 1 Practice)
- Reading: The Physics of Skydiving (Difficulty: 19%) (3:46)
- Writing: How parachutes work (Task 1 Practice)
- Reading: The four forces of aerodynamics (Difficulty: 26%) (1:59)
- Reading: What is Homeostasis? (Difficulty 29%) (2:34)
- Reading: Making Alcohols By Fermentation (Difficulty: 30%) (3:33)
- Reading: What is Digestion? (Difficulty 35%) (3:18)
- Reading: South Australia's Boom to renewable energy (Difficulty: 36%) (1:29)
- Writing: Renewable energy and fossil fuels (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Fossil fuels (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: How vaccines are made from eggs (Difficulty: 45%) (2:36)
- Writing: Vaccines and Smallpox (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Vaccines and Polio (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Vaccines and Measles (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Medical advances and life expectancy (Task 2 Practice)
- What are Catalysts? (Difficulty: 48%) (3:33)
- Reading: Electroreception (Difficulty: 58%)
- Writing: Electroreception in Embryonic Rays (Task 1 Practice)
- Reading: The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (Difficulty: 70%) (5:51)
- Writing: Nuclear power (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: The Printing Press (Difficulty: 8%)
- Writing: Books, Television and Language Skills (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: Who invented the lightbulb? (Difficulty: 12%)
- Written Conversation Practice: Did Thomas Edison really invent the lightbulb?
- Writing: How do lightbulbs work (Task 1 Practice)
- Writing: Should Edison get sole credit for inventing the lightbulb? (Task 2 Practice)
- Reading: Stuffed Animals (Difficulty: 30%)
- Past simple games
- Past continuous games
- Past perfect games
- Past perfect continuous games
- Present simple games
- Present continuous games
- Present perfect games
- Future simple games
- Future continuous games
- Future perfect & Future perfect continuous games
- Passive/Active voice games
- Modal verbs games
- Articles games
- Comparatives games
- Superlatives games
- Pronouns games
- Synonyms/Paraphrasing games
- Prepositions games