1. Trinity Certification – “Building English 2”
Grades 7- 8 (B2.1-B2.2 CEFR)
Total time: 15 minutes
The examination consists of three assessed phases which are:
Candidate-led discussion of a topic prepared by the candidate ( up to 5 minutes)
Interactive task (up to 4 minutes)
Conversation on two subject areas selected by the examiner (up to 5 minutes)

2. Grade 7 – Language production - Grammar
Second conditional
Simple passive
Used to
Relative clauses
Modals to give advice and make suggestions (e.g. should/ought to, could, you’d better)
Discourse connectors (e.g. because of, due to)

3. Grade 7 – Communicative skills - Functions
Giving advice and highlighting advantages and disadvantages
Make suggestions
Describing past habits
Expressing possibility and uncertainty
Eliciting further information and expansion of ideas and opinions
Expressing agreement and disagreement

4. Grade 7 – Subject Areas for Conversation Phase
Education
National customs
Village and city life
National and local produce and products
Early memories
Pollution and recycling

5. Grade 8 – Language production - Grammar
Third conditional
Present perfect continuous tense
Past perfect tense
Reported speech
Linking expressions (e.g. even though, in spite of, unless, although, etc.)
Cohesive devises (e.g. in other words, for example, to continue, etc.)

6. Grade 8 – Communicative skills - Functions
Expressing feelings and emotions
Expressing impossibility
Reporting the conversation of others
Speculating
Persuading and discouraging

7. Grade 8 – Subject Areas for Conversation Phase
Society and living standards
Personal values and ideals
The world of work
Unexplained phenomena and events
National environmental concerns
Public figures past and present

8. Interactive Task – Grade 7
It is my parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary soon and my sisters and I want to organise something special, but we’re not sure what.
(Possible functions: elicinting further information, giving advice, making suggestions.)