English level B2 Upper-Intermediate

B2 level skills

The lucky ones with B2 can:

• Express your opinion in detail and support the words with examples.
• Confidently keep up the conversation even with unexpected and spontaneous dialogues.
• React to any situation and stipulate your position.
• Cope with non-adapted literature: both specialized and fiction.
• Listen to rather long texts without losing the essence: speeches, live broadcasts.
• Compose texts on many different topics with details and stylistic features.
• Enrich your speech with excellent English: in my mind, it goes without saying, it turned out that, it doesn't matter that, that is self-evident that, etc.

Let's look at the basic competencies of an English speaker at an advanced threshold level.

Reading

It is not difficult for a person to understand a long and complex text: its main idea, climax, identify several storylines and answer questions about it. Literature without adaptation for Russian speakers can also be used in teaching - while the essence is captured without a dictionary.

Speaking

The use of 3000-4000 words without prior preparation and on a wide range of topics - B2 challenge. When communicating with native speakers, neither you nor the other party experience difficulties and misunderstandings. With regular verbal interaction, for example, on work issues, over time, the difference between you and the carrier will not be noticeable at all.

Hearing comprehension

Movies, songs, performances in the original can be perceived without difficulty and loss of meaning. You understand the interlocutor, his emotions, mood and what is expected of you in return. At this stage, it is useful to train on the speeches of politicians, actors, listen to original podcasts and replenish the piggy bank with idioms, phraseological units and introductory words.

Letter

Clear, well-structured, detailed text on a variety of topics, including unfamiliar ones, is one of the B2. You can answer a specialized question in detail, think about the architecture of an article on a topical issue, and write it using arguments, references, and arguments. You can respond in a formal or informal manner and conduct logical business correspondence.

Lexical base

You have a powerful vocabulary of 4,000 words and are constantly adding new, fresh, powerful expressions to it. Further training is aimed at constantly expanding the list of words, including professionalism, slang, authentic English everyday phrases.

Advanced Intermediate Topics

We have compiled a list of topics on which you should be able to express your point of view, compose essays, and also lead a discussion:

• Emotions, impressions, inspiration.
• Types of communication: business, personal, household.
• Dreams, motivation, realization.
• Philosophy of success, fakaps, achievements.
• Inspirational people, personality, authority in our lives.
• Friendship: acquaintances, colleagues, best friends.
• Jobs, duties, work plans.
• Ambition, personal and imposed goals.
• Temperament: homebody, goofball, activist.
• business and money.
• Addictions, illnesses, personality disorders.
• Healthy Lifestyle: nutrition, sports, mental health.
• Funny life cases: humor, ridiculous stories.
• Attitudes towards beauty: the difference between women and men.
• General research methods and techniques.
• Culinary tastes: cooking, cuisines of the world.
• Past and memories.
• Coziness in the house: interior and furnishings.
• Adventures and Covid: travel, global changes.
• Success or failure: the scale of life values.
• Self-actualization: the role of the person in social life.
• Gender stereotypes: changing roles of women and men.
• Myths and facts: verification and confidence.
• Different people: 21st century youth trends.
• Quarantine period: life and business online.
• My body: inferiority complex and self-acceptance.

The key difference between B2 and the previous A1, A2, B1 is that you can no longer just speak and take in quantity, but speak interestingly, with soul, with emotionally colored expressions, with a skillful posing of a question at the beginning and its correct solution in the course of your speech.

Your speech may consist of short sentences, but strive for a coherent, logically consistent structure with a climax and clear conclusions. In the future, you will be engaged in acquaintance with the finest phrases, humor, slang words, but you already have a framework. Let's look at what grammatical topics should bounce off the teeth at level B2.

Upper-Intermediate conversational cues

We have put together a small selection of communication words that will help you make your speech livelier.

Of course, there are many such expressions. However, in order not to get confused, it is worth remembering the base and over time supplementing it with new options you like.

English idioms B2

We have put together some of the idioms that English speakers often use to decorate their written and spoken language, so that you understand what the structure of speech should be.

Every English article, whether online or in print media, is adorned with phrases like this. This is one of the features of this language - it is lively and interesting. Therefore, in order to promote your English you cannot do without constant reading of professional articles on all possible topics. But the good news is that by reading such materials, you gain invaluable knowledge that you can masterfully apply.