Official English certificate The LanguageCert International ESOL B1 exams assess candidates' four language skills who can understand clear information on family matters, deal with situations that arise during travel, produce simple text, describe experiences, and provide reasons and explanations. The LanguageCert International ESOL B1 exams are the basic first step towards your B2 Communicator level.
What you will achieve
You can understand the main points of clear standard communication, convey information, feelings, and opinions on familiar topics (family, work, school, or leisure), engage in a discussion to reach a shared understanding, produce a simple connected text and describe experiences, events, hopes, and ambitions.
You have learned the basics of English and now have practical language skills for everyday use. Now you can read a simple magazine/newspaper article in English, write a daily email to a friend or colleague, create simple texts on topics of personal interest, understand an informal discussion in English, and deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken
By completing the B1 Achiever level, it means that you have developed your ability to communicate in English for practical tasks and situations and have laid the foundation to improve your work, study, and travel prospects with an internationally recognized certification. The LanguageCert International ESOL B1 exams are the first step towards your B2 Communicator level.
There are two exams for this level:
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Written exam (listening, reading, writing).
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Spoken exam (talk).
Languagecert International ESOL B1 Achiever exam duration
PAPER BASE 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Listening 30 minutes.
Reading and writing 2 hours and 10 minutes without interruptions.
COMPUTER-BASED 2 hours 40 minutes.
Listening 30 minutes.
Reading and writing 2 hours and 10 minutes without interruptions.
ONLINE 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Listening 30 minutes.
Reading and writing 2 hours and 10 minutes without interruptions.
| Listening | Response type | Task |
| Part 1 - 7 questions | Multiple choice of three options for each of the seven expressions to choose the appropriate answer. | Listen to two short sentences twice: statement, explanation, description, instruction, or question. |
| Part 2 - 6 questions | Two three-choice multiple-choice questions for each of the three conversations. | Listen to three short conversations with two speakers twice to identify: topic, purpose, context, speakers, essence, the relationship between speakers, roles, functions, attitudes, feelings, and opinions. |
| Part 3 - 7 questions | A message pad with a heading and seven prompts and the space to write the correct information for each question. Answers are one to five words. | Listen twice to a radio broadcast, conversation, narrative, presentation, etc. to identify specific information. |
| Part 4 - 6 questions | Six three-choice multiple-choice questions. | Listen twice to a debate to define the essential, examples, fact, opinion, contrast, purpose, key ideas, attitude, cause and effect. |
| Total: 26 questions | ||
| Reading | Response type | Task |
| Part 1 - 5 questions | Five multiple-choice of three choices to complete each text. | Five short texts, each with a space-proof layout, lexis, cohesive devices, coherence. |
| Part 2 - 6 questions | Choice of seven sentences to choose from to fill in the six gaps. A prayer is provided as a distraction. | A text with six sentences removed, for example, topic sentence, summary sentence, idea development, point emphasis, opinion, contrast, sequence, forward / backreference, transition to a new idea. |
| Part 3 - 7 questions | Seven questions to indicate which text provides the answer to each question. | Four short texts, for example, email, article, announcement, etc. with a linked theme, but with a different purpose. |
| Part 4 - 8 questions | Eight open 'wh-' questions require short answers of one to three words. | A continuous text: narrative, descriptive, expository, biographical, instructive. |
| Total: 26 questions | ||
| Writing | Response type | Task |
| Part 1 - 70/100 words | Respond appropriately to a given text to produce a formal response for a planned public hearing. | Instructions for writing a response to a letter, poster, journal, schedule, brochure, etc. for a specific reader and a clearly defined number of content points to be addressed. |
| Part 2 - 100/120 words | Produce an informal letter to a friend. | Instructions to write a letter on a certain topic of personal interest with two functions to be included, for example, invite a friend to stay, describe what you will do. |
Languagecert International ESOL B1 Achiever exam duration
FACE TO FACE 12 minutes.
Talking 12 minutes.
ONLINE 12 minutes.
Talking 12 minutes.
| Part 1 |
Give and spell your name. |
| Part 2 | Two or three situations are presented by the interlocutor and the candidates respond to and initiate interactions. |
| Part 3 | Exchange information to identify similarities and differences in images of familiar situations. |
| Part 4 |
30 seconds of prep time. |