Trinity’s GESE Grade 3 exam (CEFR A2)

7 minute speaking and listening test

Provisional results on the same day

Certificate usually sent within 7 days

Speaking and listening only

Communicative skills 

1. Show understanding by responding appropriately to simple questions and requests
2. Use basic sentence patterns and phrases to communicate limited information related to simple everyday situations
3. Exchange basic information about everyday life and activities by asking and answering simple questions
4. Link groups of words in a very simple way using and, and then.

Language requirements

Language functions

1. Describing daily routines and times
2. Giving dates
3. Expressing ability and inability
4. Giving very simple directions and locations
5. Describing current activities of real people or those in pictures
6. Describing states in the past
7. Asking simple questions about everyday life

Grammar

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use:

1. Present continuous tense
2. Can and can’t
3. Prepositions of movement from, to, up, down, along, across
4. Prepositions of time on, in, at
5. Prepositions of place near, in front of, behind, opposite
6. Past tense of the verb to be
7. Link words and, and then

Lexis

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use vocabulary related to:

1. Jobs w Places in the local area
2. Place of study
3. Home life w Weather
4. Free time
5. Times and dates
6. Ordinal numbers up to 31st for dates
7. Words and phrases relating to the language functions listed above

Phonology

1. The correct pronunciation of words relevant to the lexical areas listed above
2. The use of contractions where appropriate
3. Basic stress and intonation patterns for words, short sentences and simple questions