B1 COURSE

English Gateway – Level B1 (Intermediate)

Welcome to Level B1 – Take Your English to the Next Level

At Level B1, you’re moving beyond the basics and becoming a more independent English speaker. This stage is all about real-world communication — whether you're working, studying, travelling, or making friends. You’ll learn to express your ideas, feelings, experiences, and future plans with greater fluency and confidence.

This level is perfect for those who want to use English in everyday life and feel ready to start thinking in English.

🎯 B1 Learning Goals – What You’ll Be Able to Do:

By the end of Level B1, you will be able to:

• Understand the main points of conversations on familiar topics (work, school, travel, etc.)

• Deal confidently with situations while travelling in English-speaking environments

• Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions in clear, connected speech or writing

• Explain your opinions, give reasons, and express preferences

• Manage more complex social conversations and write short texts on topics of interest

🗣️ Communication Targets:

• Talk about past experiences and memories

• Share goals, plans, and future hopes

• Describe personal feelings and emotional states

• Make comparisons, give opinions, and explain choices

• Use polite language for requests and suggestions

• Express certainty, obligation, and possibility

• Discuss news, trends, and daily events

📚 Vocabulary Focus:

• Emotions and mental states

• Travel and transport

• Media, entertainment, and technology

• Health, fitness, and sport

• News and current events

• Education and learning topics

• Leisure and free-time activities

• Time phrases (past and future)

✏️ Grammar Focus:

• Adverbs (time, degree, manner)

• Used to (past habits and states)

• Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

• Future forms: will / going to / present continuous

• Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect

• Future Continuous

• Conditionals (first and second)

• Modal verbs (should have, might have, must...)

• Passive voice

Level B1 is all about fluency, clarity, and confidence. You’ll start using English as a tool to connect with others, share ideas, and express who you are. With our activity-based lessons, real-life role plays, and project work, you’ll grow into a flexible and fluent communicator — the English Gateway way!