B1 · YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Find your voice.
Build your confidence.
At the start of B1, you keep using familiar English and learn to connect your ideas, explain reasons and handle a little more detail. You can begin while continuing to strengthen a skill at A2.
Choose your starting point
If you have an A2 level card
Look at Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking separately. Note the date and who checked each part: the website, you, a teacher or someone else. You do not need to upload the card or enter private details here. You can make a card with the A2 Level Review: the website checks listening and reading, and you check writing and speaking with the models and rubric.
Choose the description that matches your card. These are starting suggestions from the pilot, not entry rules.
- Four skills say “Ready for B1”.
- Three skills say “Ready for B1”.
- Fewer than three skills are ready, or some results are missing.
Four skills ready: begin and keep checking
Try B1 Unit 1: Solve an Everyday Problem. Keep the first task and note how much help you need. Your card is a useful starting point, not a promise that every B1 task will feel easy.
Three skills ready: begin with support
Start the B1 lesson and practice the skill marked “Not yet” at A2 alongside it. For example, if Speaking needs practice, prepare a short exchange, speak it aloud and ask a partner to check what they understood. Then try a new exchange without reading.
Use LE-A2-APPT-01 — Change a Plan Politely for days, times, requests and confirmation. Use LE-A2-PROB-01 — Explain a Problem and Ask for Help for describing what happened and arranging help. Choose the part that matches your skill goal, then return to B1.
More practice or incomplete results
Start with the A2 tasks listed on your card if they are available. Focus on the missing or difficult skill, then try a fresh task. A missing result means “not checked”, not “cannot do it”. You may still try the first B1 lesson and use its support.
If you do not have a card
You do not need to repeat a long test. Try the short before-study task in B1 Unit 1. Read the situation, explain a problem, choose an option and give a reason. Try saying your message aloud too.
Ask yourself: Can I understand the main facts? Can I communicate a workable choice? Can another person understand why I chose it? If this is difficult, use the support phrases and an easier lesson first.
This text-based first task samples reading, writing and speaking if you attempt it aloud. It does not check listening. A ready/not-ready decision for listening needs separate evidence. If you want a broader starting check, try the A2 Level Review. Its current pilot has 10 listening and 10 reading questions, plus self-checked writing and speaking. Its recommendations guide your learning; you can still choose a B1 lesson.
Support by skill
- Listening — Change a Plan Politely: listen to the short call and check the day and time. The voice uses your device; if audio does not work, do not treat reading the transcript as listening evidence.
- Reading — Explain a Problem and Ask for Help: read the short call and identify the problem, when it started and the agreed help.
- Speaking — Change a Plan Politely: answer the guided prompts aloud, ask for a time to be repeated and confirm the arrangement.
- Writing — Explain a Problem and Ask for Help: write a short request with the problem, relevant details and a time for help.
These A2 units are open as pilots. Use A2 Elementary to see which other units are available and which are still planned. The two linked units support more than one skill; choose a specific part rather than treating one activity as evidence of every skill.
Eight-unit learning path
- Unit 1: Solve an Everyday Problem — LE-B1-PROB-01
- Unit 2: Coordinate Work and Study — LE-B1-COOR-01
- Unit 3: Explain Experiences and Set a Goal — LE-B1-EXPR-01
- Unit 4: Understand Information and Check a Claim — LE-B1-INFO-01
- Unit 5: Read to Learn and Take Notes — LE-B1-NOTE-01
- Unit 6: Write Useful Emails — LE-B1-MAIL-01
- Unit 7: Disagree, Clarify and Suggest — LE-B1-VIEW-01
- Unit 8: Plan a Shared Learning Activity — LE-B1-PROJ-01
Practice, review and keep evidence
Eight listening messages · B1 Level Review and learning card
The eight-unit introductory pathway is available. It covers the planned themes with practice and review, but completing it alone does not establish proficiency across the whole CEFR level. The level labels remain design targets pending learner trials.
Keep the meaning of your results clear
The three starting suggestions and A2 readiness thresholds are being tried in a pilot. They do not certify a CEFR level or stop you choosing a lesson. A2 and B1 rubric scores describe tasks of different difficulty and are not converted directly.
Keep a notebook record using Check Your Progress. Choose easier practice or more support whenever you need it.
Available now: this starting guide, eight B1 units, listening practice and a level review. The complete B1 sequence is still being built. This page does not import, store or automatically verify your level card.