Welcome to B1 — What’s New at This Level

Welcome to B1 — Intermediate! You’ve built a solid foundation at A1 and A2: you can talk about the present, the past, and simple future plans, and you can use modals like can, should, and must.

What’s new at B1

  • Longer stories using the Past Perfect (I had already left when she arrived).
  • Hypothetical situations with the Second Conditional (If I had more time, I would travel more).
  • The Passive Voice, for describing processes and news without naming who did the action.
  • Reported Speech for questions and commands, not just statements.
  • Modals of deduction (must have, might have, can’t have) for guessing what probably happened.
  • Relative clauses that add extra, non-essential detail.
  • More natural, connected writing — giving opinions, linking ideas, and filling in real-world forms.

By the end of this course you will be able to connect phrases to describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions — the official CEFR B1 benchmark for Spoken Production.

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