Lessons
Grammar, vocabulary, writing, speaking and pronunciation from A1 to C1. Pick a topic or follow a path.
Learning paths
B2 Level B2
- Third conditional and mixed conditionalsHow to talk about a past that did not happen, and how to connect an unreal past with a present result.
- Wish and if onlyHow to say that you would like the present, the past or someone's behaviour to be different, using wish and if only.
- Passive voice: advanced usesPassive forms with two objects, reporting verbs, modals, infinitives and -ing forms, plus the informal get-passive.
- Reported speech: advancedReporting verbs and their patterns, reported questions, modal verbs in reports, and when the tense does not change.
- Inversion: introductionPutting the auxiliary before the subject after negative and limiting adverbs, after so and neither, and in formal conditionals.
- Causative: have and get something doneSaying that you arrange for someone else to do something, and that something happened to you, with have and get.
- Participle clausesShortening sentences with -ing and -ed clauses to show reason, time, result or description, and keeping the subject clear.
- Future perfectSaying that something will be complete before a point in the future, with will have and the past participle.
- Narrative tensesCombining the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous to tell a story in the right order.
- Linking words in formal writingConnecting ideas in essays and reports with however, therefore, moreover, whereas, despite and similar words, with the right punctuation.