Level B2 Course

Level descriptors & Study targets (CFR B2).

English Gateway – Level B2 (Upper Intermediate)

Welcome to Level B2 – Speak with Clarity, Depth, and Confidence

At B2 level, you’re stepping into advanced communication. This stage is designed for learners who want to speak fluently, write clearly, and express complex ideas with ease. You’ll become comfortable engaging in deeper conversations, writing detailed texts, and exploring a range of current topics — from media and culture to global issues.

This level is ideal for learners preparing for professional use of English or advanced academic study.

🎯 B2 Learning Goals – What You’ll Be Able to Do:

By the end of Level B2, you will be able to:

• Understand the main ideas of complex texts and discussions, including technical language in your field

• Interact naturally with native speakers without strain

• Express viewpoints clearly and give detailed explanations, advantages, and disadvantages

• Take part in extended conversations and debates on familiar and unfamiliar topics

• Write detailed texts, letters, and essays with logical structure and tone

🗣️ Communication Targets:

• Describe past events and present experiences with depth

• Express opinions and agree or disagree politely and clearly

• Give advice and explore pros and cons of different options

• Make suggestions and respond appropriately in discussion

• Speculate about events in the past, present, and future

• Talk about hopes, regrets, and personal feelings

• Report on things you've heard, read, or experienced

📚 Vocabulary Focus:

• Work, education, and career topics

• Daily routines and lifestyles

• Money, banking, and budgeting

• Crime and punishment

• Technology and innovation

• Media and global communication

• Environmental and global issues

• Phrasal verbs, linking expressions, and reporting verbs

✏️ Grammar Focus:

• Compound adjectives (fast-moving, well-known)

• Adverbs for time, degree, and manner

• Relative clauses (who, which, that...)

• Present Perfect and Past Perfect (simple and continuous)

• Future tenses: future perfect and future continuous

• Conditionals (second, third, and mixed)

• Modals of speculation (might have, could have, should have)

• Passive forms in various tenses

• Reported speech and indirect questions

Level B2 will give you the skills to express yourself with precision, emotion, and logic. Through roleplays, debates, presentations, and project work, you’ll gain the confidence to operate in English across academic, social, and professional settings — the English Gateway way!