Our T2 English group is designed for teenagers beginning the B1 level of English (normally at 2-ESO, Second year of Secondary) but also open to younger or older students. This stage is a key milestone in language learning, as students move from being able to communicate in everyday situations to expressing themselves more fluently and accurately in a wider range of contexts. Building a strong foundation at B1.1 is essential for success in higher levels and future exams such as Cambridge B1 Preliminary and B2 First.

At this stage, students will develop their grammar and vocabulary, improve their ability to understand authentic spoken and written English, and gain confidence in expressing their own ideas clearly. Lessons are interactive, practical, and tailored to teenagers, with topics and tasks that are engaging and relevant to their lives.

Who is it for?

• Teenagers aged 12–17 who have successfully completed the A2 level.
• Students who want to start the B1 journey with a strong focus on accuracy, fluency, and communication skills.
• Learners preparing to work towards official B1 and B2 exams in the future.

Course objectives:

• Establish a solid foundation in B1 grammar, vocabulary, and communication skills.
• Learn to:
  • Talk about past, present, and future events with more detail and accuracy.
  • Give clear descriptions and opinions on familiar and some unfamiliar topics.
  • Understand the main points of clear standard speech on everyday matters.
  • Read and understand longer, straightforward texts, identifying the main ideas and some details.
  • Write connected paragraphs for emails, letters, and short articles.

What the course covers:

Grammar and structures:

• Review of A2 grammar with extension to B1 level:
  • All present tenses (simple, continuous, perfect) and when to use them.
  • Past simple, past continuous, and past perfect.
  • Future forms: will, going to, present continuous for arrangements.
  • Comparative and superlative structures with more complex adjectives and adverbs.
  • First conditional, second conditional (introduction).
  • Modal verbs for advice, deduction, probability, and obligation (should, must, might, may, could, have to, can’t).
  • Reported speech (statements).
  • Passive voice (present simple and past simple).
  • Relative clauses (defining and non-defining).
  • Quantifiers (much, many, a lot of, few, little, some, any, plenty of).

Vocabulary:

• Education and school life, technology and communication, travel and tourism, health and fitness, hobbies and interests, environment, jobs and future plans, social life and culture.

Activities:

• Pair and group discussions on relatable topics.
• Listening to real-world audio extracts (interviews, short talks).
• Reading and analysing magazine articles, blogs, and short stories.
• Writing guided compositions with feedback on accuracy and style.
• Games, quizzes, and project-based activities for active learning.

Skills:

• Listening & Speaking: participate in discussions, give opinions with reasons, and narrate events clearly.
• Reading & Writing: read and understand longer texts with some unfamiliar vocabulary; write organised, connected paragraphs with correct grammar and varied vocabulary.

Discounts:

• Family Members (FM): 10% on each student from the same family.