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English Certificate - Level B1 - Course 1 provides students with the necessary tools to communicate in a range of everyday situations which require a largely predictable use of language. At this level, learners can understand texts in more detail and can act with a degree of independence. This course contains speaking and writing assignments.
Once the course has finished, students will be able to understand the main points of clearly expressed standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure and other daily situations. They can also deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where English is spoken and produce simple connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest. Students also learn to describe experiences, dreams, hopes and ambitions.
Throughout this course students learn to describe continuous actions in the past, express duration, obligation and conditions, narrate stories, explain causes and consequences, define jobs and objects, make suggestions, ask for confirmation and go shopping. They also study how to make predictions, offers, talk on the phone, change money, talk about prices, express their opinion on general topics, express probability, emphasise the result of an action and ask for directions.
Vocabulary studied through the course includes: travelling by plane and other means of transport, nature and the countryside, landscapes, parks, camping and accommodation, parts of the body, jobs and professions, hotels and hostels, food and restaurants. Vocabulary related to telephone communication, monetary exchange, special events, cooking, adjectives, medicine, hospitals and feelings is also covered.
Students practice all the language skills: writing, speaking, listening and reading through a series of interactive and contextualised exercises. They learn through tasks that include real-life dialogues, word/sentence – picture association and video dubbing exercises. The last lesson of each unit has some test exercises so that students are aware of their progress.
English Certificate - Level B1 - Course 2 provides students with the necessary tools to communicate and handle the main structures of the language with some confidence and demonstrate knowledge of a wide range of vocabulary and use of the appropriate communicative strategies in a variety of social situations. This course contains speaking and writing assignments.
Once the course has finished students can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. They can also interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Students can produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue.
Throughout the course students learn to talk about habitual actions and actions in progress, to express tastes, likes and dislikes and converse about jobs and free time. They study how to narrate, express habitual actions in the past, describe houses, talk about the recent past and about tourism and travelling. Students learn to express movement and intentions, arrange an appointment, make plans and predictions, talk about films and TV programmes, give and receive permission, express obligation, lack of obligation, prohibition, possibility give advice and talk about domestic chores.
Vocabulary studied through the course includes: topics such work and leisure, games and sports, relatives, house description, trips and tourism, experiences, pastimes, excursions and trips, films and television programmes, competitions and contests, medicine and hospitals, feelings, climate, jobs and employment, work conditions, stress-free life, amongst others.
Students practice all the language abilities: writing, speaking, listening and reading through a series of interactive and contextualised exercises. They learn through tasks such as real-life dialogues, word/sentence – picture association and video dubbing exercises. The last lesson of each unit has some test exercises so that students are aware of their progress.
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