Exam preparation courses B1-B2

Are you planning to take Norskprøve B1-B2? Everyone wishing to refresh their grammar and vocabulary and practice their language skills at level B1-B2 is also welcome!

About the course

Ideally, you should have completed standard or intensive courses B2-1, B2-2 and B2-3 or equivalent before taking this course.

We know what it takes to prepare you for "Norskprøve" A2-B1 and focus on what is important.

Course level

This course is ideal for students who wish to prepare for a Norwegian public exam, or feel the need for repetition of the material covered in levels B1 and B2 and wish to prepare themselves for the next level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Completing the course

Benefit from our flexible blended learning approach:

Alfaskolen offers also pure online courses to prepare you for Norskprøve B1-B2.

Course material consists of various texts for reading comprehension practice as well as building vocabulary within the relevant topic areas, listening exercises, grammar and language use exercises, and some theoretical material such as overviews of grammar usage. Course materials are included in the price of the course and are prepared by the teacher.

The course includes the following topic areas:

• Society, the human life, children and parents, youth and old age

• The city and the country

• Public health, treatment, active life

• Education and learning, social issues in the education system

• Political situation

• Culture, art, music

• The work marked, work environment, equal rights

• Technology

• Norwegian history, especially the Viking period, old peoples

• National groups, the Sami people

• The natural world, animals and plants

• The media

In this course you will get an insight into the various exam tasks as well as strategies to tackle these. Practice solving the exam tasks in our language lab, using a program developed especially to help you prepare for the Norwegian language proficiency test. Develop your language skills of speaking, writing, listening and reading. Get feedback from your teacher on your written and spoken performance. Build vocabulary within the relevant topic areas.

You will also repeat and strengthen your knowledge and understanding of the following areas of grammar:

• Linking words to structure your argument, to express likeness, contrast, result, purpose, etc.

• The use of the indefinite and definite forms of nouns and adjectives to build cohesion in texts

• Word order in compound and complex sentences, coordinating conjunctions

• Word order in subordinate clauses, subordinating conjunctions

• Unreal conditional clauses

• Punctuation

• Prepositions of time and place, commonly mistaken prepositions

• Participles