Slide 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)

Grade 7 –
Language production - Grammar
•
•
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•
•

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)

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

Grade 7 –
Subject Areas for Conversation Phase
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•
•
•
•
•

Education
National customs
Village and city life
National and local produce and products
Early memories
Pollution and recycling

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)


Slide 2

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)

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)

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

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

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)


Slide 3

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)

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)

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

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

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)


Slide 4

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)

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)

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

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

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)


Slide 5

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)

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)

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

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

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)


Slide 6

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)

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)

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

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

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)


Slide 7

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)

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)

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

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

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)


Slide 8

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)

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)

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

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

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.)

Grade 8 –
Communicative skills - Functions

• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of
others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging

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

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.)