B1/B1+ Intermediate

Business skills

• Introducing your professional background
• Describing job roles and responsibilities
• Talking about career milestones and experience
• Describing colleagues, managers and team members
• Networking and getting to know business contacts

Grammar

• Wh- questions for workplace information
• Question word order with be, do and other auxiliaries
• Subject and object questions
• Questions with prepositions
• Follow-up questions for professional conversations

Business skills

• Multilingual workplaces and global teams
• Cross-cultural business communication
• Communicating with international clients
• Avoiding and resolving misunderstandings
• Language learning for professional development

Grammar

• Review of present, past and future tenses
• Using do, be and have as auxiliary verbs
• Forming questions and negatives
• Short answers in business conversations
• Choosing the correct tense from context

Business skills

• Jobs, professions and workplace responsibilities
• Leadership styles and the role of a manager
• Employee motivation and job satisfaction
• Work-life balance and flexible working
• Small talk and relationship-building at work

Grammar

• Present Simple for routines and permanent situations
• Present Continuous for temporary and changing situations
• Stative verbs in professional communication
• Action verbs in simple and continuous forms
• Contrasting routine, current and developing situations

Business skills

• Describing unexpected workplace incidents
• Project setbacks and recovery
• Company history and important turning points
• Crisis response and problem-solving
• Business case studies and lessons learned

Grammar

• Past Simple for completed events
• Past Continuous for background and interrupted actions
• Past Perfect for earlier past events
• Active versus passive voice in reports
• Sequencing past events clearly

Business skills

• Workplace rules and company policies
• Business ethics and responsible decisions
• Health, safety and professional obligations
• Customer service: requests and offers
• Giving advice and proposing solutions

Grammar

• Must and have to for obligation
• Mustn’t and can’t for prohibition
• Should and ought to for advice
• Can, could and may for permission
• Could, would and can for polite requests and offers

Business skills

• Professional achievements and milestones
• Reporting project progress
• Targets, results and performance indicators
• Challenges, persistence and problem-solving
• Talking about professional experience

Grammar

• Present Perfect Simple for achievements and experience
• Present Perfect Continuous for ongoing activity
• Present Perfect Passive in business updates
• For, since, already, yet and just
• Present Perfect versus Past Simple

Business skills

• Training, education and professional qualifications
• Career development and lifelong learning
• Exams, certifications and assessment
• Body language in meetings and presentations
• Arguing for and against business proposals

Grammar

• Verb + to-infinitive patterns
• Verb + -ing patterns
• Verb + object + to-infinitive
• Adjective + to-infinitive
• Gerunds after prepositions

Business skills

• Emerging technologies in business
• Sustainable innovation and energy
• The future of jobs and workplace skills
• Business planning and forecasting
• Scheduling meetings and future arrangements

Grammar

• Will for predictions and spontaneous decisions
• Going to for plans and evidence-based predictions
• Present Continuous for future arrangements
• Present Simple for schedules and timetables
• Choosing future forms for plans, predictions and arrangements

Business skills

• Sharing-economy business models
• Money, prices, payments and value
• Customer trust and responsible sharing
• Efficient use of resources
• Hypothetical business decisions and consequences

Grammar

• Second Conditional for hypothetical business situations
• Third Conditional for past decisions and consequences
• Would, could and might in conditional results
• Negative conditional forms
• Conditional questions for decision-making scenarios

Business skills

• Evaluating claims and business information
• Risk assessment and uncertainty
• Making assumptions from available evidence
• Unusual business cases and unexpected outcomes
• Expressing attitudes, certainty and doubt

Grammar

• Must be for strong logical conclusions
• Might, may and could for possibility
• Can’t be for strong negative deduction
• Looks like and seems to for cautious conclusions
• Degrees of certainty in professional judgement

Business skills

• Digital transformation and new technologies
• Describing products, tools and devices
• Business news and media communication
• Virtual versus real customer experiences
• Naming products, services and workplace objects

Grammar

• Building expanded noun phrases
• Articles and determiners in noun phrases
• Possessives and pronouns
• Compound nouns in business and technology
• Reflexive pronouns and reference words

Business skills

• Career ambitions and professional goals
• Entrepreneurship and turning ideas into reality
• Reporting meetings and workplace conversations
• Interviews, testimonials and success stories
• Leadership communication and inspiring others

Grammar

• Reported statements
• Reported questions
• Indirect questions for polite professional communication
• Tense backshift in reported speech
• Reporting verbs and changes in time/place references