Orilla

B2 · English and Spanish

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You can argue a point, report speech, and write a for-and-against essay. Every explanation is given in English and in Spanish.

4 units · 15 lessons · 80% on every lesson and every unit test

About 500–600 cumulative hours are usually needed for B2. This level is hours 401–600 of the 700-hour plan. Open the plan · Longer texts

Award

Each part stands on its own. A high quiz score does not replace writing, speaking, or the guided hours. The certificate is an Orilla record. It is not a Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL, or ICFES result.

  • Lessons at 80%
  • Unit tests at 80%
  • Writing accepted in every unit, at least 180 words
  • Speaking accepted in every unit, at least 80 words
  • Guided hours 0 / 160

How a lesson works

  1. 1. Presentation

    Read the rule and the examples. Notice the form before you produce it.

  2. 2. Vocabulary and reading

    Study the words in a text. Look up only the ones that block the meaning.

  3. 3. Practice

    Listen, answer, and do the speaking circuit: each line, twice. This part does not pass the lesson. It is the part that takes time.

  4. 4. Production

    Write first. Open the model after you have tried.

  5. 5. Assessment

    Ten questions on this lesson. 80% opens the next one.

By the end you can

  • Choose aspect, including a future that is finished by a deadline, and talk about wishes.
  • Report what was said, use the passive, and say who had the work done.
  • Write a for-and-against essay with a clear line of argument.
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Syllabus

1. Time and wishes

  1. 1. Aspect: simple, continuous, perfectChoose aspect for finished facts, temporary actions, and time up to now.Elegir el aspecto para un hecho cerrado, una acción temporal y un tiempo que llega hasta ahora.
  2. 2. Future continuous and future perfectSay what will be in progress at a time, and what will be finished by a later time.Decir qué estará en curso en un momento y qué estará terminado antes de otro.
  3. 3. Unreal conditionalsTalk about imagined present and past results without mixing the forms.Hablar de resultados imaginados en el presente y en el pasado sin mezclar las formas.
  4. 4. Wish and if onlyWish about the present with a past form, and about the past with had.Desear sobre el presente con forma de pasado, y sobre el pasado con had.

2. What was said

  1. 5. Direct and indirect speechReport statements, questions, and commands with the useful tense shift.Contar afirmaciones, preguntas y órdenes con el cambio de tiempo que sí se usa.
  2. 6. The passive across tensesBuild the passive in present, past, perfect, future, and with modals.Armar la pasiva en presente, pasado, perfecto, futuro y con modales.
  3. 7. Have something doneSay that someone else did or will do the work for you.Decir que otra persona hizo o hará el trabajo por ti.
  4. 8. Deduction: must, might, can'tSay how sure you are, now and in the past, without stating it as a fact.Decir qué tan seguro estás, ahora y en el pasado, sin presentarlo como un hecho.

3. The precise sentence

  1. 9. Relative clausesDefine and add information with who, which, whose, and where.Definir y añadir información con who, which, whose y where.
  2. 10. Hedging and modalitySoften claims when the evidence is incomplete.Suavizar una afirmación cuando la evidencia no está completa.
  3. 11. Pronunciation: stress and weak formsStress the word that carries the meaning, and reduce to, and, and of.Apoyar la palabra que carga el sentido y reducir to, and y of.
  4. 12. Pronunciation: linkingJoin a final consonant to the next vowel without adding a vowel or dropping the word.Unir la consonante final con la vocal siguiente, sin agregar una vocal ni perder la palabra.

4. The longer text

  1. 13. Cohesion and discourseKeep a longer answer connected without repeating the same linker.Mantener conectada una respuesta larga sin repetir el mismo conector.
  2. 14. Register and collocationSwap informal phrases for the collocation a workplace actually uses.Cambiar frases informales por la colocación que sí se usa en el trabajo.
  3. 15. A for-and-against essayHold both sides of an argument, then say where you stand.Sostener los dos lados y después decir dónde te quedas.