About LanguageCert International ESOL B1:
- Leads to two separate certificates: Written and Spoken
- Both exams can be taken together or independently of each other
Written exam:
- Paper-based/computer-based at approved Test Centres or Online with remote, live invigilation
- Duration 2 hours 40 minutes
Spoken exam:
- Face-to-face or Online with a live interlocutor
- Duration 12 minutes
At B1 level, candidates can:
- convey information, feelings and opinions on familiar topics (family, work, school, travel and leisure)
- engage in discussion to reach shared understanding
- produce simple, connected texts
- describe experiences, events, hopes and ambitions
- understand simple magazines/newspaper articles
*Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), developed by the Council of Europe, is widely used to describe levels of language proficiency.
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