Online lessons with a qualified British teacher: General English B1 level
Our online lessons for General English B1 level with a qualified British teacher is aimed at learners with an Intermediate level of English who wish to make progress in the language. Typical learners at B1 level are able to use the language independently with familiar topics, and are comfortable understanding and expressing opinions. However, they may have trouble with more abstract uses of the language. Your online English teacher will help you understand and form more complex sentences and communicate in English with increased confidence.
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General English B1 online lessons: outcomes
By the end of this course you will be able to:
– Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc
– Deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where English is spoken. produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest
– Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
Sample syllabus:
Functions:
Describing places
Describing past experiences and storytelling
Describing feelings, emotions, attitudes
Expressing opinions
Expressing agreement/ disagreement
Talking about films and books
Discourse Functions:
Initiating and closing conversation
Checking understanding
Managing interaction (interrupting, changing topic, resuming or continuing)
Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc.
Markers to structure informal spoken discourse
Verb forms:
Questions in Present and Past
Complex question tags
Past Continuous
Used to
Would expressing habit in the past
Past Perfect
Future time (will & going to)
Future Continuous
Present Perfect
Present Perfect vs Past Simple
Conditionals
Zero and first conditional
Second and third conditional
Phrasal Verbs
Extended Phrasal Verbs