Description

More than half of the content on the Internet is in English. In addition, the vast majority of series, movies, books and entertainment are originally produced in English, which gives an advantage to those who know the language to enjoy it earlier. Whether for personal, academic or professional reasons, studying English is one of the best decisions you can make today, as it greatly improves your access to jobs and general culture. TECH has assembled a team of native teachers to prepare all the contents of this Language Course, adapting them to the requirements of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. 

You will significantly increase the amount of information and entertainment you can consume thanks to this Language Course" 

The world's most powerful companies speak English. Brands as diverse and prolific as Coca-Cola, McDonald's or Apple originated in the United States, with English being the common language in all of them. Therefore, acquiring a B1 Level certificate improves employability and adds quality to any CV. Even on a personal level, you can build more relationships and improve your own networks by speaking English with people from all walks of life and regions of the world.

This is the best decision you can make to vastly improve your circle of contacts and possibilities for job improvement.
Websites, series and movies in English will no longer be a problem for you with an intermediate level of comprehension. 

 

It is proven that learning languages increases your Intelligence. Learning a foreign language strengthens the brain's neural networks” 

José Antonio Marina.
Philosopher, writer, and teacher.

A unique and stimulating experience 

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Flexible and Tailored

Take the best language course from home, at your own pace and according to your availability and schedule.

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Acquire Skills and Abilities

With our method, you will practice and consolidate the skills required for this level.

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Networking

Join a large community and exchange knowledge and experiences with students from all over the world.

Objectives

This B1 English Language Course is created to cover all the needs and skills required by the CEFR, so that students can obtain the certificate that validates their language level without any setbacks. This way, students are offered a practical approach supported by a unique teaching method, with multiple audiovisual support to alleviate the teaching load.

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Practice the speaking skills and abilities required by the B1 CEFR: more than 350 different practice exercises"

General Objectives

  • Use the language being learned as a means of communication and personal expression, both in the classroom and in a wide range of face-to-face and virtual situations and on both concrete and abstract topics, including cultural ones 
  • Understand, interact and express themselves in these situations, orally and in writing, in an appropriate, reasonably flexible, precise and correct manner. 
  • Describe the sociocultural aspects related to usual situations, as well as those related to one's own environment and use the appropriate social formulas, gestures, register and treatment in these situations 
  • Internalize the appropriate and necessary linguistic resources for the planned communicative activities, through functional and formal practice
  • Encourage and diversify the use of strategies that streamline communication and facilitate learning 
  • Manage tools to evaluate and improve one's own learning and use of the language 

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Specific Objectives

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Oral Comprehension

  • Understand concrete everyday or work-related information and identify both the general message and specific details as , long as the speech is clearly articulated and with a normal accent 
  • Understand the main ideas of clear, standard speech on everyday topics , related to work, school or leisure time, including short narratives. 
  • Generally follow the main ideas of a long discussion going on around them, provided that the discourse is clearly articulated at a standard language level 
  • Understand, in general terms, simple and short speeches on everyday topics provided they are delivered with standard and clear pronunciation. 
  • Understand a lecture or talk that deals with their area of expertise, provided that the subject matter is familiar and the presentation is simple and clearly structured 
  • Understand simple technical information, such as operating instructions for frequently used appliances, as well as follow detailed instructions 
  • Understand the main ideas of radio news and other simpler recorded material dealing with everyday topics delivered relatively slowly and clearly. 
  • Understand the information content of most recorded or broadcast material related to topics of personal interest with clear standard pronunciation
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Reading Comprehension

  • Read simple factual texts on topics related to their field of expertise with a satisfactory level of comprehension 
  • Understand the description of facts, feelings and wishes in personal letters well enough to correspond regularly with a foreign friend. 
  • Find and understand relevant information in everyday written material, such as letters, catalogs, and short official documents. 
  • Consult long texts in order to find the desired information, and to know how to gather information from different parts of a text or from different texts in order to perform a specific task. 
  • Recognize significant ideas from simple newspaper articles that deal with everyday issues 
  • Identify the main conclusions in clearly argumentative texts. Recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented, though not necessarily in full detail 
  • Understand simple, clearly written instructions related to an appliance 
  • Understand many films where visuals and action drive much of the storyline and are articulated clearly and with a simple level of language 
  • Capture the main ideas of television programs dealing with everyday topics when they are articulated relatively slowly and clearly 
In TECH's CEFR B1 Language Course, students will find more than 350 pronunciation and phonetic activities.
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Written Expression 

  • Write simple, cohesive texts on a range of everyday topics within their field of interest, linking a series of different short items in a linear sequence 
  • Write simple and detailed descriptions of a range of everyday topics within their specialty 
  • Write accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions in simple, structured texts  
  • Write a description of a specific event, a recent trip, real or imagined, and narrate a story. 
  • Write very brief reports in conventional format with information about common events and the reasons for certain actions 
  • Write short and simple essays on topics of interest. Can summarize, communicate and offer their opinion with a certain degree of confidence on concrete facts related to everyday matters, whether usual or not, in their field of expertise. 
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Oral Expression

  • Carry out, with a reasonable degree of fluency, a simple description of a variety of topics that are of interest to them, presenting them as a linear sequence of elements 
  • Give simple descriptions on a variety of common topics within your specialty  
  • Give simple narratives or descriptions with a reasonable degree of fluency following a linear sequence of elements 
  • Make detailed accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions.  
  • Report the details of unpredictable events, such as, for example, an accident 
  • Relate book or movie plots and describe your reactions to them 
  • Describe dreams, hopes and ambitions 
  • Describe real or imagined events. Tell stories 
  • Provide brief rationales and explanations for opinions, plans and actions. 
  • Develop arguments well enough so that they can be understood without difficulty most of the time. 
  • Make short rehearsed statements on a relevant topic within their specialty, which are clearly intelligible despite being accompanied by an unmistakably foreign accent and intonation 
  • Deliver a brief, prepared presentation on a topic within their specialty, with sufficient clarity to be followed without difficulty most of the time and whose main ideas are explained with reasonable accuracy. Can also answer supplemental questions, but may have to ask for repetition if spoken quickly 

 

Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Competence 

  • Know how to carry out a wide range of linguistic functions, using the most common features of these functions in a neutral register. Be aware of the most important rules of courtesy and act appropriately. Be aware of the most significant differences that exist between the customs, usages, attitudes, values and beliefs prevailing in the community in question and their own, and know how to identify such differences. Know how to carry out basic language functions such as exchanging and requesting information and expressing opinions and attitudes in a simple way. 
  • Adapt expression to deal with less common and even difficult situations. Use a wide range of simple linguistic elements with the flexibility to express much of what is wanted 
  • Participate in debates on everyday topics using an appropriate phrase to take the floor. Initiate, maintain, and conclude simple face-to-face conversations on everyday topics or topics of personal interest 
  • Give simple narratives or descriptions, with a reasonable degree of fluency, through a linear sequence of elements 
  • Linking a series of short, specific and simple elements to create a cohesive, linear sequence
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Linguistic Competence 

  • Possess sufficient linguistic ability to describe unpredictable situations, to explain the main points of an idea or problem with reasonable accuracy, and to express thoughts on abstract or cultural topics, such as music and movies
  • Possess sufficient linguistic ability to get by, and sufficient vocabulary to express themselves with some hesitation and circumlocution on topics such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel and current events, but lexical limitations lead to repetition and sometimes even difficulties in formulation.. 
  • Possess sufficient vocabulary to express themselves with some circumlocution on most topics relevant to their daily lives, such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events
  • Demonstrate a good command of elementary vocabulary, even if significant errors are made when expressing more complex thoughts, or when dealing with unusual topics and situations
  • Communicate with reasonable accuracy in everyday situations; generally have good grammatical control, although with obvious mother tongue influence 
  • Use, with reasonable accuracy, a repertoire of common "formulas" and structures related to the most predictable situations
  • Speak clearly and intelligibly, even if the foreign accent is sometimes evident and occasional mispronunciations are made
  • Produce continuous writing that is usually intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and structuring are correct enough to be understood most of the time

To consolidate all these skills, you will have access to more than 500 lexical, vocabulary and sociocultural activities” 

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Did you know?

Communicative competence is not merely limited to the knowledge and ability to use the linguistic code, but has other broader dimensions, which place it in direct relation with other competences such as information processing and digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competence, or cultural and artistic competence. 

This implies a cultural immersion that is only possible to recreate in the online format through simulated scenarios, storytelling, videos and real situations.

 

Only TECH offers their students videos with the 250 specific situations required to master the CEFR B1.

B1 English Language Course

If you are looking to have a competitive job profile in any sector, it is key to have an intermediate level of English, since, being the most spoken language worldwide (about 20% of the global population uses it as a second language and in 59 countries it is spoken officially), it is essential to include it in the curriculum. TECH Global University offers you, therefore, the B1 English Language Course, a great option for you to study this language in a completely online and self-regulated way. The syllabus includes fifteen modules distributed in four months, in which you will have access to exclusive multimedia content, cutting-edge methodologies applied to bilingual teaching and evaluation tests based on official certification exams for level B1 according to the CEFR. You will learn from asking questions and expressing feelings towards others (gratitude, appreciation, affection, affection, sympathy, antipathy, aversion and admiration), to asking for and offering objects, help and services. If you are looking for a course that will give you real results in the English language, TECH is the answer.

Achieve an intermediate level of English

With our academic proposal, you will be able to develop diverse skills in grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, oral expression, among other varied nuances of the English language. You will achieve this through a wide range of study material previously selected by native bilingual teachers and reinforced with the Relearning pedagogical system: one of the world's leading educational systems due to its efficient results when it comes to optimizing students' skills. You will learn how to use the English language to: express impossibility, possibility or obligation to do something, make a complaint or claim, tell anecdotes and experiences, ask for and give directions, and much more. Topics such as daily routine, food, medicine, leisure, travel, the environment, shopping, among others, will be seen in an immersive way in our syllabus, giving you greater fluency to maintain conversations with an intermediate language. Take advantage of this great opportunity and enroll at TECH.