B1 Level English Course Description
Course Objective:
This course is designed for learners who have completed elementary English and can handle familiar situations, but who now aim to become more independent users of the language. The primary objective is to develop learners’ ability to communicate clearly, coherently, and confidently in a wide range of everyday and semi-formal contexts, both spoken and written.
Course Content:
Expanded Vocabulary: Systematic development of vocabulary related to work, education, travel, health, technology, and social issues, with attention to collocations, word families, and common idiomatic expressions.
Core Grammar Development: Consolidation and extension of key grammatical structures, including present perfect and past simple contrasts, future forms, modal verbs for obligation, advice, and probability, comparative and superlative structures, basic passive voice, reported speech, and first and second conditional sentences. Emphasis is placed on accuracy as well as appropriate usage in context.
Listening and Speaking: Development of listening skills through longer conversations, interviews, and short presentations. Speaking practice focuses on expressing opinions, explaining reasons, narrating past experiences, and participating in discussions and problem-solving tasks.
Reading and Writing: Enhancement of reading comprehension using adapted authentic texts such as articles, emails, and short reports. Writing instruction includes paragraph organization, informal and semi-formal emails, opinion paragraphs, and short descriptive or narrative texts.
Functional and Pragmatic Communication: Practice of real-life communication skills, including making suggestions, giving advice, expressing agreement and disagreement, making complaints, and handling common workplace or travel-related situations.
Outcomes:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
Communicate effectively in most everyday situations and familiar professional or academic contexts.
Describe experiences, events, hopes, and plans with appropriate detail and clarity.
Express opinions and provide reasons and explanations for them.
Understand the main points of clear standard speech and texts on familiar topics.
Produce connected written texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.