The B1 Level-Up Plan
Eight weeks from strong A2 to solid B1.
B1 is the independence level, the one employers and universities start asking for: you cope with travel on your own, explain your plans and opinions with reasons, follow the main points of clear speech, and write simple connected text about things you know. This plan builds exactly that: experience talk, opinions with reasons, and your first passives and reported speech.
The honest math: moving up one CEFR level takes roughly 150 to 250 guided hours. This plan, at about an hour a day, five days a week, gives you around 40 of the most targeted hours there are. If you are at the top of A2, that is enough to cross. If you are mid-A2, treat this as your first block, finish it, retest, and run the next block. Steady beats fast, every time.
Week 1: Your B1 baseline
Diagnosis and the B1 map
- Retake the free level test and save your band scores
- B1 book, Chapters 1-2
- Student Library: Vocabulary B1 quiz, first pass, note every miss
Week 2: Experience talk
Present perfect, have you ever
- B1 book, Chapters 3-4
- Interview yourself out loud: ten have-you-ever questions, full answers
- Library game: Fill the Gap, Core tier
Week 3: Opinions with reasons
Because, so, but, however
- B1 book, Chapters 5-6
- Give your opinion on five topics this week, always with two reasons
- Library game: Question Builder, Advanced tier
Week 4: Checkpoint
Halfway proof
- Retake the Vocabulary B1 quiz and beat your Week 1 score
- Library quiz: Grammar, Linking Words set
- Write a half-page email: a plan, an apology, or a request, in a natural tone
Week 5: Things get done
Simple passives and reported speech
- B1 book, Chapters 7-8
- Describe how three things are made or done, using passives
- Report five things people told you this week, in English
Week 6: Dreams and conditions
Second conditional and wishes
- B1 book, Chapters 9-10
- Write ten second-conditional sentences about your real life
- Library game: Conditionals, Standard tier
Week 7: Handle the real world
Travel, problems, solutions
- Practise five travel situations out loud: delays, lost bags, directions, complaints, changes
- Pronunciation Guide: sentence stress and intonation, 10 minutes a day
- Library game: Error Trap, Core tier
Week 8: Prove it
Retest and the next door
- Retake the free level test and compare band scores with Week 1
- Retake your Week 4 quiz errors only
- If B1 is solid, your next door is the B2 Level-Up Plan
The kit for this plan
Everything below is used inside the eight weeks, including the Week 4 checkpoint, the Vocabulary B1 quiz retake. The practice itself lives free in the Student Library.