朗思考核角度与传统的剑桥系列考试不同，更注重语言的实用性——是通过给定场景下不同语言功能实现情况，来考核考生的英语实际使用能力。因此考生需要在朗思考试中展现出来的是使用英语达到特定语言功能的能力（例如陈述、争辩、解释……）

B2 级别要求（Functions - Communicator Level – B2）

Personal environment

· asking for and giving personal information

· describing where one lives (accommodation, area etc)

· asking and answering questions for confirmation, information, identification

· describing people, places, things

· correcting information

· explaining routines

· narrating and describing past, present and future events

· comparing things, people

· reporting facts, actions

· stating facts, actions

· giving descriptions and specifications

Expressing thoughts, feelings and attitudes

· expressing and asking about agreement or disagreement

· denying something

· expressing agreement reluctantly or with reservations

· conceding a point or argument, demurring

· expressing views and feelings with reasons

· asserting and asking about knowledge or ignorance of something or someone

· stating whether a person, thing or action is remembered or forgotten

· enquiring of someone else whether a person, thing or action is remembered or forgotten

· stating and asking about degrees of probability/possibility

· expressing, denying or asking about necessity (including logical deduction)

· stating and asking about one’s certainty or uncertainty of something

· reminding someone to do something

· expressing doubt, incredulity, bewilderment

· hypothesising

· stating and asking about one’s ability or inability to do something

· stating and enquiring about one’s obligation (or lack of) to do something

· seeking, granting or denying permission

· stating and asking about the permissibility of doing something

· expressing and asking about wishes, hopes, expectations

· expressing and asking about wants, desires, needs

· stating and asking about intention

· stating, responding to and asking about preference

· expressing and asking about likes and dislikes, with reasons

· expressing and asking about (dis)pleasure, (un)happiness

· expressing and asking about satisfaction or dissatisfaction

· expressing disappointment

· expressing gratitude

· expressing and asking about interest or lack of it

· expressing surprise or lack of it

· expressing and asking about fear, worry, anxiety

· giving reassurance

· expressing regret, sympathy, condolence

· expressing fellow-feeling, empathy

· expressing and asking about pain, anguish, suffering

· expressing relief

· expressing indifference

· expressing fatigue, resignation

· offering and accepting an apology

· granting forgiveness

· expressing and asking about approval, appreciation or disapproval

· expressing moral obligation

· expressing regret

· accepting, attaching or denying blame for something

Making things happen

· responding to a request

· requesting something, or requesting someone to do something

· inviting someone to do something

· accepting or declining an offer or invitation

· giving instructions or orders

· giving and asking for advice

· responding to or rejecting advice, with reasons

· warning others to be careful or to stop doing something

· offering and requesting assistance

· insisting politely

· persuading someone to do something

· suggesting a course of action

· asking for, responding to, agreeing to or rejecting suggestions with reason/alternative

· making and agreeing plans and arrangements

· encouraging someone to do something

· reaching a compromise

· prohibiting someone from doing something

· making a complaint

· refusing to do something, expressing defiance

· pleading with someone to do something

Social contact

· getting someone’s attention

· greeting people and responding to greetings

· expressing thanks

· addressing somebody

· making and responding to formal and informal introductions

· opening, closing a formal or informal conversation

· congratulating someone

· praising someone

· paying someone a compliment

· asking someone’s opinion

· making someone feel welcome

· indicating lack of understanding

· giving and asking for clarification, explanation or definition of something

· confirming one’s own or another’s understanding

· asking someone to repeat all or part of something

· asking someone to speak more slowly

· asking for help in finding words or phrases

· asking for and giving the spelling and meaning of words

· counting and using numbers

· asking for and telling people the time, day, date

· interrupting politely

· objecting, protesting

· exemplifying or emphasising

· classifying, generalising, defining something

· encouraging another speaker to continue

· indicating a wish to continue or finish speaking

· summing up

· taking leave

· observing telephone conventions