Nivel English Certificate B2

English Dexway Certificate - Level B2 - Course 1 provides students with the necessary tools to communicate and handle the main structures of the language with some confidence. They will also 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 their field of specialisation. They can also interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers relatively easily 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 define an object or describe a person, give additional information about an object or person, add and obtain information in formal contexts, request and give opinions, make deductions about the past, express regret about past actions and connect ideas. They also study how to give and ask for permission, discuss abilities and impossible facts in the present caused by an incomplete condition in the past, report commands and questions, explain a cause, express purpose, talk about different religions and describe a process.
Vocabulary topics covered in this course are the following: ecology, the environment, news, politics, connectors, education, teaching and learning, college course subjects, learning techniques, health, nutrition and sanitation, healthy eating , beliefs and religions, locations and geographic denominations, the theatre, science, parts of the body and family resemblances.
Moreover, in this course students learn vocabulary and specific expressions related to first aid, going to the hospital and the chemist’s and to the jewellery shop. All these lessons include a series of typical situations and dialogues that help students contextualise and learn vocabulary by heart.
Students practice all the language abilities: 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 B2 - Course 2 provides students with the necessary tools to communicate and be able to use a wide range of structures with ease and fluency. Students become aware of the significance of register and so may begin to adapt their language use to a variety of social situations. They are also provided with the tools to produce a variety of types of texts and utterances. This course contains speaking and writing assignments.
Once the course has finished, students can understand a wide range of demanding and longer texts and recognise implicit meaning. They can also express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions and use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. They can produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on more complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
Throughout the course students learn to master different language functions such as: expressing quantity, shopping in a supermarket, giving orders, describing ability, expressing obligation, lack of obligation, future possibility, purpose, giving advice, making promises, suggestions, offerings and asking polite questions. Students also learn some basic stage terminology, talk about films and animals, describe objects, express real and unreal conditions, explain processes, describe people, scenes, images and places as well as reporting direct speech and thoughts.
Vocabulary topics covered in this course include: good luck charms and superstitions, fruit and vegetables, films, modelling, machines and machinery, agriculture, mining and industry, personal appearance and location, vehicles and driving, spaces and places, parapsychology, horoscopes, urban places of interest, light and colour, artistic and photographic terms. Students also learn idioms, specific terminology for letter writing and contracts and differences in British and American English.
Additionally, in this course students learn vocabulary and specific expressions related to going to the optician’s and some vocabulary related to business. All these lessons include a series of typical situations and dialogues that help students contextualise and learn vocabulary by heart.
Students practice all the language abilities: 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.