English proficiency test online: Intermediate (B1)
B1 Reading
Job application
Read a job application and answer questions about it
Education 1
Read about opportunities for students aged sixteen and answer some questions.
Education 2
Read about MOOCS (massive open online courses) and choose the correct location in the text to put the missing sentences.
Hotel reviews
Read 4 reviews for a hotel. Which reviewer says the following? Choose ‘two reviewers’ when two reviewers agree, and ‘all reviewers’ if all reviewers agree.
Free time
Make the Most of your Free Time. Choose the best title for each paragraph.
Holidays
Read some real complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint.
Travel
Read the text about travel to a hospital and answer the questions.
Health
Read about the illness Norovirus. Choose the correct question for each paragraph.
Villages – True or False
Read about some English villages and answer the questions.
Madagascar
Read about the climate in Madagascar on a travel website. Then choose true or false.
B1 Listening
Describing people
Listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos.
Education
A geography teacher is describing the work students will do on the geography course. Listen and complete the table with the words in the word bank.
Accommodation
Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer.
Free time
A rep on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false.
Holidays
Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false.
Transport
Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers.
Health
Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation.
Environment
Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo.
Sport
Listen to six short conversations. What sport are they talking about?
Summer work
Listen to two people talking about their plans to work during the summer.
Restaurant
Listen to two people talking a burger restaurant.
B1 Grammar topics
Adverbs
Both, either, neither
Broader range of intensifiers; So, such, too, enough
Comparatives and superlatives
Question tags
Conditionals, 2nd and 3rd
Connecting words expressing
cause and effect, contrast etc.
Embedded questions
Future continuous
Modals – must/can’t deduction
Modals – might, may, will, probably
Modals – should have/might have/etc
Modals: must/have to
Past continuous
Past perfect
Past simple
Past tense responses
Phrasal verbs, extended
Prepositions of place
Present perfect continuous
Present perfect/past simple
Reported speech (range of tenses)
Simple passive
Wh- questions in the past
Will and going to, for prediction
Vocabulary Topics
Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications | The Natural World | Travel and Transport | Weather | Work and Jobs
B1 Writing
Sentence transformations (music)
For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the the first sentence.
Sentence transformations (rain)
For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the the first sentence.
Short message
You have lost your jacket. Write a notice to put on the wall in your school.
Email
Your family is visiting London next month. You have an English pen friend called Zara who also lives in London. You would like to meet her when you go to London.
Write an email to Zara.
Vocabulary learning tips
Read as much as possible. If you come across a word you don’t know, write it down or look it up.
Use a dictionary. Many browsers include dictionaries. If you are reading online, you may be able to right-click on a word to look it up.
Sign up for a ‘word a day’ email.
Think of ways of remembering words. Do they sound like a word in your own language?
Remember words are often used together with other words. Try to learn these ‘collocations’.