
B2 for College
iPRACTICE
Grammar & Exam skills Practice online

01. Getting Started and Diagnostic Test
WHAT DO YOU KNOW AND WHAT DO YOU NEED TO LEARN?
Do this test before studying towards a First exam to help you understand what you need to study.

02. PRESENT REVIEW
Work and Leisure
Speaking and Listening: Telephone conversation about Housekeeping and shopping.
Basic differences between the present simple and present continuous. State Verbs

03. PAST REVIEW
past memories, events etc
Talking about past memories, events etc
• Review of the Past simple and Past continuous tenses; used to and would; be/get used to + -ing or noun

04. PRESENT PERFECT TENSE REVIEW
Neighbourhood complaints
Talking about experiences; Magazine articles
• Review of the Present perfect simple and past simple; present perfect simple and continuous

05. PAST PERFECT TENSE REVIEW
Trouble at home
Narrative forms, extract from a novel
• Review of the Past perfect simple and continuous

06. ADJECTIVES
advertisements
Reading and Use of English Part 1
Comparative and superlative adjectives; position; order;
adjectives ending in -ing and -ed

07. ADVERBS
Sports commentary
Adverb forms; adverbs and adjectives easily confused;
comparative and superlative adverbs; modifiers; adverb position

08. QUESTIONS
Studying away from home
Changing jobs, moving house etc.
yes /no questions; short answers; question words; question tags;
agreeing

09. FUTURE REVIEW 1
Everyday conversations about plans and arrangements
tutor talking to a group of students about a geography trip to New Zealand
• Review of future tenses 1: Present tenses for future; will; future continuous

10. FUTURE REVIEW 2
Making predictions
Speculation about past plans
• Review of future tenses 2: going to; future in the past; present tenses after time
conjunctions; future perfect; to be about to

11. COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE
talking about jobs
• Countable and uncountable nouns; a(n), the and no article;
special uses of articles

12. MODALS (1)
Careers
• Use of modals; rules and obligation; necessity

13. PRONOUNS AND DETERMINERS
Customer service
a man talking to a woman on a holiday website helpline
Possessives; reflexive pronouns and own; each other and one another; there and it; someone, etc.; all, most, some, no and none; each and every; both, neither and either

14. MODALS (2)
Favours
a girl called Sophie asking her mother to do five things for her
Permission; requests; offers; suggestions; orders; advice

15. MODALS (3)
Youth talk
informal: Young people talking.
Modals of Ability; deduction: certainty and possibility; expectations

16. REPORTED SPEECH
Round-the-world yacht race
Radio interview
Tense changes in reported speech; reporting in the same tense; verbs for reporting; verbs for reporting with to infinitive; reporting questions; reference to time, place, etc.

17. THE PASSIVE
Radio news bulletin
Passive verbs; to have/get something done; it is said that …

18. CONDITIONALS (1)
Spy Agent
Zero, first, second and third conditionals; mixed conditionals

19. THE TO INFINITIVE AND -ING
Cooking
Listening to a TV chef telling a group of people how to cook something.
Verb + to infinitive; verb + infinitive without to; verb + -ing; verb + that clause; adjective + to infinitive

20. CONDITIONALS (2)
I wish
Listening to a man talking to a group of people about something they are going to do.
unless; in case; provided/providing that and as/so long as; I wish and if only; it’s time; would rather; otherwise and or else

21. PREPOSITIONS (1)
The News broadcast
a news broadcast
Prepositions of place and time

22. PREPOSITIONS (2)
Emergencies
a man called Andy telling his wife Dawn about a fire.
Prepositions which follow verbs and adjectives; prepositions to express who, how and why; expressions with prepositions

23. RELATIVE CLAUSES
History
a man showing some visitors round the castle where he lives. He’s talking about some paintings.
Defining and non-defining relative clauses; relative pronouns and prepositions

24. LINKING WORDS (1)
Sports Club
two friends, Josie and Adam, talking at their sports club.
because, as and since; so and therefore; in order to, to + infinitive and so (that); so and such; enough and too

25. LINKING WORDS (2)
Celebrities
an interview with a young woman
in spite of and despite; but, although and though; even though and even if; participle clauses; before and after + -ing; when, while and since + -ing