B2 assessment
Check everything from B2: advanced tenses, hypotheticals, passive and reporting, deduction, complex sentences, discourse, vocabulary and skills.
In this lesson you will
- Review all B2 grammar and vocabulary
- Identify weak areas
- Decide whether you’re ready for C1
Learn
This assessment covers the whole B2 course: perfect and continuous aspects, mixed and inverted conditionals, wishes, advanced passives and reporting verbs, the causative, modals of deduction, relative and participle clauses, noun and cleft sentences, discourse markers, collocations, phrasal verbs and word formation.
Your results are saved as topic statistics. The Progress page will show your weakest areas with links to grammar explanations.
80% or more: you’re ready for C1 Advanced. Below 80%: review your weak topics and try again — improvement at this level comes from precise, regular practice.
Examples
- Mixed conditional: If I’d taken the job, I’d be living in Berlin now.
- Deduction: She can’t have seen the message.
- Cleft: What surprised me was his reaction.
Vocabulary
advanced
the C1 level
precision
being exact
range
variety of language
accuracy
being correct
self-assessment
judging your own level
Practice
By next June, I ___ here for ten years.
Listening: A podcast about career changes
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Host: You were a lawyer for twelve years. What made you switch to teaching?
Priya: Honestly, if I hadn’t had a health scare at forty, I’d probably still be in an office. It made me ask what I actually wanted.
Host: Did people try to talk you out of it?
Priya: My parents did, mainly because of the salary. They must have thought I’d lost my mind!
Host: Any regrets?
Priya: I sometimes wish I’d made the move earlier. Having said that, my legal background has turned out to be surprisingly useful in the classroom.
1.What caused Priya to change careers?
2.Why did her parents object?
3.What does Priya regret?
4.Her legal background has been useful in teaching.
Speaking
Final speaking task (two minutes): talk about a decision you would make differently (mixed conditionals, wish), speculate about why others made a choice (deduction) and give a nuanced opinion on work–life balance.
Writing
Final writing task (250 words): an argumentative essay on “Governments should limit the number of hours people can work.” Include a counter-argument and refutation.
- ☐ Clear thesis
- ☐ PEEL paragraphs
- ☐ Counter-argument and refutation
- ☐ Complex sentences and discourse markers
- ☐ Academic vocabulary
Lesson quiz
Hardly ___ when the phone rang.
Review
Key points
- 80%+ → move on to C1.
- Below 80% → review weak topics on your Progress page.
- Keep writing essays and giving extended spoken answers.
What you learned
- ✓ I have finished B2.
- ✓ I know my strengths and weaknesses.
- ✓ I’m ready for C1 (or know exactly what to review).
Grammar reference: Conditionals: zero, first, second and third, Modals of deduction: must, might, can’t, The passive voice, Relative clauses: who, which, that, where, whose, Cleft sentences, Inversion for emphasis