Curso de inglés de preparación examen Trinity College London

Nivel B1
• LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
• Describing the future
• — informing and predicting
• Expressing preferences
• Describing events in the indefinite and recent past
• Giving reasons
• Stating the duration of events
• Quantifying
• Expressing and requesting opinions and impressions
• Expressing intention and purpose
• Expressing obligation and necessity
• Expressing certainty and uncertainty
• Describing past actions over a period of time
• GRAMMAR
• Present perfect tense including use with for, since, ever, never, just
• Connecting clauses using because
• Will referring to the future for informing and predicting
• Adjectives and adverbials of quantity, e.g. a lot (of), not very much, many
• Expressions of preference,
• Zero and first conditionals, using if and when
• Present continuous tense for future use
• Past continuous tense
• Modals connected to the functions listed
• Infinitive of purpose
• LEXIS
• Vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas
• Further expressions relating to the past,
• Expressions relating to future time, e.g. the day after tomorrow, in the future
• Common phrasal verbs
• Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed
• PHONOLOGY
• The correct pronunciation of vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas
• The combination of weak forms and contractions.
• Sentence stress to clarify meaning
• Basic intonation and features of connected speech at sentence level
• The intonation patterns of more complex questions
• Avoidance of speech patterns of recitation.




Nivel B2
• LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
• Giving advice and highlighting advantages and disadvantages
• Making suggestions
• Describing past habits
• Expressing possibility and uncertainty
• Eliciting further information and expansion of ideas and opinions
• Expressing agreement and disagreement
• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing impossibility
• Reporting the conversation of others
• Speculating
• Persuading and discouraging
• GRAMMAR
• Second and third conditionals
• Simple passive
• Used to
• Relative clauses
• Modals and phrases used to give advice and make suggestions
• Modals and phrases used to express possibility and uncertainty may, might, I’m not sure
• Discourse connectors because of, due to
• Present perfect continuous tense
• Past perfect tense
• Reported speech
• Linking expressions,
• LEXIS
• Vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas
• Cohesive devices
• Appropriate words and expressions to indicate interest and show awareness of the speaker,
• Simple fillers to give time for thought,
• Reporting verbs,
• Appropriate words and expressions to encourage further participation,
• Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed
• PHONOLOGY
• The correct pronunciation of vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas
• Rising intonation to indicate interest and surprise as appropriate
• Intonation and features of connected speech beyond sentence level
• Rising and falling intonation to indicate giving up and offering turns
• Stress and intonation to indicate emotion
• Stress, intonation and pitch relevant to the language functions listed.




Nivel C1
• LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
• Expressing abstract ideas
• Expressing regrets, wishes and hopes
• Expressing assumptions
• Paraphrasing
• Evaluating options
• Hypothesising
• Evaluating past actions or course of events
• Developing an argument
• Defending a point of view
• Expressing beliefs
• Expressing opinions tentatively
• Summarising information, ideas and arguments
• Deducing
• Justifying an argument
• Inferring
• Expressing caution
• Expressing empathy and sympathy
• Challenging arguments and opinions
• Evaluating different standpoints
• Expressing reservations
• GRAMMAR
• A high degree of grammatical accuracy, errors are rare and difficult to identify
• A broad range of complex structures, used flexibly and effectively in combination and contrast,.
• LEXIS
• Vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas
• A good range of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms
• Cohesive devices to recap and recover.
• Hesitation fillers,
• Stock phrases to gain time for thought and keep the turn.
• Modifying words,
• Intensifiers
• Tentative expressions.
• Signposting words and expressions,
• Vague and imprecise language,
• Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed
• PHONOLOGY
• The correct pronunciation of topic and subject area specific vocabulary
• A wide range of stress, rhythm, intonation patterns, pitch and volume in order to engage and maintain the examiner’s interest, signal the provision of new
• information, indicate discourse structure, emphasise main points/ideas and convey subtle shifts in meaning and attitude
• Various features of pronunciation which only occasionally deviate from an internationally intelligible model
• Rising and falling intonation for keeping, giving up and offering turns.