Grade 4
GESE Grade 4 – Basic exam information GESE (Graded Examinations in Spoken English) Grade 4 (CEFR A2.2) examination is a conversation between you and the examiner. For more detailed information, please download the Trinity Exam Information booklet from www.trinitycollege.com/GESEexaminformation. Exam format
Time: 10 minutes Exam procedure: • Say hello, good morning or good afternoon • Have a conversation with the examiner on a prepared topic: - Give the examiner your topic form and tell him/her what you are going to talk about - The examiner chooses the discussion points on your topic form for you to talk about - The examiner can ask you more questions about your discussion points - You must ask the examiner at least one question about your topic • Have a conversation with the examiner on two subject areas selected by the examiner • Say goodbye For the exam, you must know the language items for Grade 4 and for the previous grades. For Grade 4, you must understand and use the functions, grammar and vocabulary (relating to the subject areas) below. Vocabulary
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Words and phrases relating to the functions Holidays Shopping School and work Hobbies and sports Food Weekend and seasonal activities Adverbs of frequency, e.g. sometimes, often, never Adverbial phrases of frequency, e.g. every day, once a week Expressions of past time, e.g. yesterday, last night
Grammar
• Talking about past events • Talking about future plans • • •
and intentions Expressing simple comparisons Expressing likes and dislikes Describing manner and frequency
Phonology
• Past simple tense of regular and common
• The correct pronunciation of vocabulary
• going to future • like + gerund/infinitive, e.g. I like shopping,
• Appropriate weak forms and intonation in
irregular verbs
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Functions
I like to read books Adverbs of manner and frequency Comparatives and superlatives of adjectives Linking word but
specific to the topic and subject areas connected speech
• Three different ways of pronouncing -ed •
past tense endings, e.g. played, walked, wanted Avoidance of speech patterns of recitation
