Start with a clear message
Choose a familiar topic. Listen for the main idea before trying to write every word.
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B1 English listening practice
Turn familiar vocabulary into reliable listening through connected sentences and progressive support.
Negative Sentences: Form and Common Patterns
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Nighttime or Night-time? Listen, Choose and Write Clearly
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No, Not, None, or Never: Choose the Right Word
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Noise complaint
The neighbour cannot stop practising completely, but the complaint still leads to a change. What compromise protects both people?
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Nowadays: Talk About Life That Has Changed
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Nowhere to Put It: Explain a Space Problem
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Of or Off: Choose the Right Word
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On Friday or in Friday: which is correct?
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One More Thing: Adding Information Clearly
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One of the Examples Is: Choosing Verbs
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Onto or Into: Choosing the Right Direction
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Optative sentences: choosing hope or wish
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Other than or then? A visit to the tailor
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Parallel structure: make your lists easy to follow
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Past perfect progressive: when to use it
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Pay off
Months of practice can pay off when you finally succeed. Monthly payments pay a loan off only when the remaining balance reaches zero.
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Phase out
Replacing every old device today may disrupt users. Phasing the devices out lets an organisation remove them in planned stages.
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Pick up
You can pick up a parcel, pick up some Spanish while travelling, or pick up a conversation after lunch. The words around the phrase reveal its meaning.
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Please contact me or myself: Which is correct?
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Plural of moose: one animal or several
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Possessive Determiners: Choose the Right Form
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Practice English speaking: Five daily exercises
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Present perfect progressive: how to use have been working
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Present perfect: use have and has
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How this practice helps
You may recognise a word on paper but miss it in a sentence. B1 practice gives you short recordings to work through with support.
Listen for the message, then check the words around the part you missed.
Your level route
Practise with support, try a test, then review the words you missed.
Use support in steps
Replay, ask for a hint, and listen again. Open the transcript when another replay is no longer helping.
Try a new clip
Use Test after Practice. You can replay in Test, but hints stay off until the exercise is over.
