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FOR B1 LEVEL
PREPARATION
COURSE
FOR
B1 LEVEL
1st Edition (2013)
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This book would not have been possible without the constant support of all the people
and learners who finally gave me the idea to carry on this project. It all came up
through the revision of some materials for Cambridge English Teacher, where I
currently work as Advisor. I realised that some books are somewhat long-term study-
oriented, thus many learners would not have that time to prepare an exam of this
kind. Writing a book that has the required linguistically characteristics could not be an
I gathered all the information on the contents of B1 level, both grammatical and of
vocabulary. I wrote a would-be plan where all the aspects that may arise in the exam
could be dealt and started the book’s writing. Nevertheless, I decided to give the book
a fresh perspective, different to the other books. As you will see later, each page is a
way is mostly that it gives an attractive way to the learner and everything is linked in
such a way that one could learn new things in every slide.
All the language skills are dealt in more or less the same way, ensuring a special place
Finally, I would like to thank the University of Cambridge for giving such good ideas
and tips on the exams through their websites and giving everyone the possibility to
improve the language. I would also like to express my gratitude towards those English
as Second Language Teachers who gratuitously make the learning of English accessible
to everyone through their websites in the Internet, giving a wide selection of resources
Course outlines
Unit 1. Present Simple & Present Continuous Revision.
Unit 2. Adverbs / Comparative & Superlatives.
Unit 3. Past Simple & Past Continuous.
Unit 4. Question Tags / Intensifiers.
Unit 5. Present Perfect / Gerunds and Infinitives.
Unit 6. Modals I (Must/Have to) / Future Continuous.
Unit 7. Will & Going To (Predictions) / Modals II (Might, May, Will…)
Unit 8. Present Perfect / Past Simple.
Unit 9. Conditionals (1st, 2nd and 3rd). / Past Perfect
Unit 10. Simple passive.
Unit 11. Reported Speech (common, orders, wh-, if/whether)
Unit 12. Modals III (Perfect).
Unit 13. Connecting words (result, cause…)
2 Preparation Course for B1 Level
3 Preparation Course for B1 Level
What’s a helmet?
What’s a racket?
What’s a windsurfing?
What’s table tennis?
What’s rugby?
What’s a kart?
What’s snowfering?
Tennis, hat, team game, car, windsurfing on the snow, bat, surfing on
water.
} Organise the information you have of them following the next example:
} E.g.
} Height: tall
} Hair: brown
} Eyes: blue
} Other information: old men.
} 2. Would you like to meet any of the people who wrote the
advertisements? Why?/Why not?
} 1. PAST SIMPLE
} Form:
} You called Angel. (we add –ed to the base form of the verb in regular verbs;
for irregular verbs we take the form of the second column)
} Did you call Angel? (To make questions, we put before the subject the
particle “Did” and take the –ed out)
} You did not / didn’t call Angel. (For negative phrases “did not/didn’t” is
used, and the base form doesn’t add any past mark)
} Past simple is used to express an action that started at some point and
finished at a specific time in the past. It is a completed action.
} Ex. “I went to the library yesterday afternoon”
} SECOND USE.
} It is also used to express a duration in the past, through the particles “for”
and “since”.
} Basin
} Cushions
} Pillows
} Chest of drawers
} Desk
} Sofa
} Cooker
} Sink
} Wastepaper basket
She might come this evening. Use 'might' or 'may' to express an opinion
David may invite Jesica to the match. that you think has a good possibility of being
Jack might have gone to France. true.
} If you ________ (study) for the test, you ________ (pass) it.
} If you ________ (ask) me, I ________ (help) you.
} If we ________ (go) to the cinema, we ________ (see) my friend
Jacob.
} If you ________ (speak) English, she ________ (understand) .
} If they ________ (listen) to me, we ________ (be) home earlier.
} I ________ (write) you a postcard if I ________ (have) your address.
} If I ________ (not / break) my leg, I ________ (take part) in the
contest.
} If it ________ (not/ start) to rain, we (walk) to the museum.
} We ________ (swim) in the sea if there ________ (not / be) so many
sharks there.
} If she ________ (take) the bus, she ________ (not / arrive) on time.
thinking?
H
happy about
hopeful of/about
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} 10. A: I left my car here under the NO Parking sign; and now it´s gone. It (be) stolen!
} B: Not necessarily. The police (drive) it away.
} 12. A: Look at this beautiful painting! Only a very great artist (paint) such a picture!
} B: Nonsense! A child of five (paint) it with his eyes shut.
} 14. There is only one set of footprints, so the kidnapper (carry) his prisoner out. He not (do)
it in daylight or he (be) seen. He (wait) till dark.
} When the first Sainsbury’s shop opened, it sold meat as well as milk, butter and
eggs.
} Shoppers paid more at Sainsbury’s shop because of the quality of the food.
} Sainsbury’s second shop was in central London.
} In the nineteenth century, some Sainsbury’s shops were open until 2 am.
} After 1900, some of the food sold came from other countries.
} In 1900, people spent more of their income on food than they do now.
} In the 1920s, Sainsbury’s gave shoppers more choice than other shops.
} It was possible to have your food delivered by Sainsbury’s in the 1970s.
} English people enjoyed self-service shopping when it was first introduced.
} It took more than 30 years for every Sainsbury’s shop to become self-service.
} CONSEQUENCE.
} Consequently / As a consequence / As a result / Therefore
} As a consequence of / As a result of + noun / vb-ing
} So (it introduces a phrase)