B1 English Lessons

Every lesson below is written for B1 on the CEFR scale. Students complete them in the browser, and most answers are checked automatically.

• Saturn at Its Brightest: B1 Reading Lesson — Saturn reaches opposition on 4 October 2026, its closest and brightest night of the year, when the planet and its rings stay visible from sunset to sunrise.
• Why Bookshops Are Opening Again: B1 Vocabulary — Independent bookshops have been opening rather than closing for several years now, and the reasons say a lot about what people want a shop to be.
• The World's Rarest Parrot: B1 Reading Lesson — New Zealand's kakapo, a flightless parrot with only 235 adults left, just finished its best breeding season ever: more than 100 chicks in 2026.
• Total Solar Eclipse Lesson: Iceland and Spain — On 12 August 2026 the Moon blocks the Sun completely over Iceland and northern Spain, the first total eclipse visible from mainland Europe since 1999.