📘 B2 English – Chapter 1, Lesson 2
Lesson Level: B2 (Upper-Intermediate)
Estimated Completion Time: 90–120 minutes
🎯 Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will:
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🗣️ Expand your work & study vocabulary
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🕰️ Master advanced English tenses in speaking and writing
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🎧 Improve listening comprehension in academic and work contexts
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✍️ Apply knowledge in real-life situations like interviews and workplace discussions
📌 Topics Covered
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Job interviews, workplace routines, job satisfaction, careers
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Past perfect, past simple, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past continuous
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Listening: lectures, talks, news
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Reading: work-related and cultural articles
💡 How to Use This Lesson
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📚 Vocabulary: Explore key words and phrases.
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📝 Grammar: Study tenses and see examples.
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🎧 Listening: Practice comprehension with lectures, talks, and news.
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📖 Reading: Read articles to improve understanding.
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✅ Practice: Test yourself using exercises at the end.
Tip: Take notes in your digital notebook and try using the new words and grammar in sentences immediately.
📚 Vocabulary: Work and Study (Units 4–7)
Unit 4: Job Interviews
🎯 Goal: Learn expressions and questions for interviews
💡 Tip: Record yourself answering questions aloud to practice fluency
Key Words: interviewer, candidate, qualifications, strengths, weaknesses
Unit 5: At Work – Colleagues & Routines
🎯 Goal: Describe coworkers, teamwork, and daily tasks
💡 Tip: Make sentences about your own workday
Key Words: teamwork, collaboration, deadline, supervisor, meeting
Unit 6: At Work – Job Satisfaction
🎯 Goal: Express feelings about work, motivation, and career goals
💡 Tip: Compare your experiences with examples in the lesson
Key Words: satisfaction, motivation, promotion, workload, responsibilities
Unit 7: At Work – Careers
🎯 Goal: Learn career vocabulary and professional growth terms
💡 Tip: Write a short paragraph about your dream career using new words
Key Words: career path, profession, internship, training, advancement
📥 Click here to download this Vocabulary Lesson PDF
📝 Grammar: Tenses (Units 5–8)
Unit 5: Past Perfect vs Past Simple
🎯 Goal: Sequence past events clearly
💡 Tip: Draw timelines for clarity
Unit 6: Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect
🎯 Goal: Talk about experiences that started in the past and continue
💡 Tip: Focus on signal words: for, since, lately
Unit 7: Past Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Continuous
🎯 Goal: Describe long past actions and simultaneous events
💡 Tip: Create short stories using multiple tenses
Unit 8: Present & Past Time Review
🎯 Goal: Consolidate your knowledge
💡 Tip: Compare sentences in different tenses for better understanding
📥 Click here to download this Grammar Lesson PDF
B2 English Chapter 1 Practice 2
✅ Practice Tips
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Follow exercises in order to build confidence
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Re-listen to audio clips to improve pronunciation
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Review mistakes immediately and try again
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Discuss answers with peers or instructors
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🎧 Listening Activities
🎓 A lecture about an experiment
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💪 A talk about motivation
Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.
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📰 Business news
Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.
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📖 Reading Activities
🌍 International Workers’ Day
Do the preparation task first. Then read the article and do the exercises.
🗣️ English Language Day
Do the preparation task first. Then read the article and do the exercises.