English B2 Speaking and Listening

Language preparatory programme · Prepares you for Trinity College London GESE Grade 7 (CEFR B2)

This programme takes your spoken English from B1 to B2. At B2 you:

give and defend opinions;
weigh advantages and disadvantages;
make suggestions;
lead a conversation, which is what work, study and everyday life in English often ask for.

The programme follows Trinity College London’s Graded Examination in Spoken English (GESE) Grade 7, a fifteen-minute one-to-one exam. It asks more of you than Grade 5:

you lead the discussion of a topic you have prepared;
you take control of a short interactive task;
you share ideas and opinions on two subjects chosen by the examiner.

The programme works the same way as our B1 programme. You:

listen to example conversations;
practise every part of the exam aloud;
get feedback straight away;
finish with full mock exams timed like the real one.

This is a preparation programme and does not award a qualification. If you decide to take the GESE exam, you book it with Trinity and pay the exam fee to them. This programme is independent of Trinity College London.

Course Factsheet

Entry Requirements

Target Audience

Career Options

Assessment

Course Factsheet

Entry Requirements

Target Audience

Career Options

Assessment

Course Details

Learning Aims

By completion, you will be able to:

give advice and set out advantages and disadvantages;
make suggestions;
describe past habits, using used to;
express possibility and uncertainty, using may, might and I’m not sure;
ask for more information and invite the other person to say more;
agree and disagree politely;
use the second conditional, the passive and relative clauses in conversation;
use intonation to show interest and to show you have finished your turn;
lead the discussion of a prepared topic and handle interruptions and questions;
take control of the interactive phase and keep it going;
talk about the six Grade 7 subject areas:
- education;
- national customs;
- village and city life;
- national and local produce and products;
- early memories;
- pollution and recycling.

Module Structure

The programme follows Trinity’s Grade 7 specification:

Module 0: Start here – What B2 means, how the programme works, and a starting check that gives you your personal route
Module 1: Education – Giving advice and suggestions
Module 2: Early memories – Describing past habits
Module 3: Village and city life – Advantages and disadvantages
Module 4: National customs – Agreeing and disagreeing
Module 5: National and local produce and products – The passive and relative clauses
Module 6: Pollution and recycling – Possibility, uncertainty and the second conditional
Module 7: Your topic – Leading the discussion, handling interruptions and questions
Module 8: The interactive phase – Taking control, asking for information and inviting comment
Module 9: The conversation – Sharing the conversation and repairing a breakdown in communication
Module 10: Mock exams and exam day – Full mock exams, the readiness check, booking and what happens on the day

Resources Required

A smartphone, tablet or computer with a microphone and an internet connection
Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Safari, for feedback on the words you say
Headphones (recommended)
A quiet place to speak aloud

Your practice and your data. Your practice answers and recordings stay in the browser on your device. They are not sent to the learning platform, and they are cleared when you leave the page. When speech to text is on, your browser’s speech service receives your recording so that it can write down your words. You can switch speech to text off.