TRINITY EXAM : Etapa inicial Grados 2 y 3
El examen del Trinity de grado 2 y 3 consiste en una breve conversación con el examinador durante 7 minutos.
El examen se basa en lo que el alumno sabe y no en lo que no sabe. A su vez, se trata de un examen personal por lo que a cada alumno/a puede que se le hagan preguntas diferentes. Sin embargo, aunque el examen es personal, responde a unos contenidos concretos que son estos:
CONTENIDOS GRADO 2
Formato
Tiempo total: 6 minutos
El examen consiste en una conversación de máximo 6 minutos.
Conocimientos
En el grado 2 al alumno se le pide demostrar las siguientes capacidades comunicativas:
Habilidades Comunicativas
- Comprender preguntas, órdenes y afirmaciones sencillas y breves.
- Responder con respuestas cortas afirmativas y negativas.
- Contribuir a la conversación por medio de oraciones y afirmaciones breves.
- Utilizar un abanico básico de palabras y oraciones sencillas que se refieran a información personal del alumno (edad, número de hermanos, etc. )
- Preguntar acerca de información personal básica. Ejemplo: Posesiones: Is this your pencil?
- Indicar la posición de personas y objetos.
- Descripción de personas, animales, objetos y lugares de forma sencilla
- Afirmación de hechos. Ejemplo: It´s raining today.
- Informar acerca de las cosas que se poseen.
Lengua- comprensión y producción de Lenguaje- Gramática
Se espera que el alumno demuestre la capacidad de:
(a) Comprensión
- Preguntas en Presente simple.
- Preguntas con who, when.
- Preguntas en Presente continuo.
- Determinantes indefinidos some, any.
(b) Comprensión y uso
- Oraciones en presente simple.
- There is/are y has/have got/have you got?
- Preguntas con where, what
- Preposiciones de lugar in, on, under, between, next to
- Determinantes posesivos our, their, its
- Pronombres posesivos mine, yours, his, hers
- Respuestas de Yes/No a preguntas en presente continuo
Léxico/ Vocabulario
El alumno ha de demostrar la capacidad de comprender y usar el vocabulario relacionado con:
- Habitaciones de la casa
- Objetos del hogar
- Familia y amigos
- Mascotas
- Posesiones
- Días de la semana y meses del año
- Números cardinales hasta el 50
Fonética
Se exige que pronuncien correctamente las palabras relacionadas con el vocabulario anterior y que acentúen oralmente las formas breves. Ejemplo: Yes I do, I´ve, I´m, he´s, she´s, etc.
CONTENIDOS GRADO 3
Formato
Tiempo total: 7 minutos
El examen consiste en una conversación de máximo 7 minutos.
Conocimientos
En el grado 3 al alumno se le pide demostrar las siguientes capacidades comunicativas:
Habilidades comunicativas
- Mostrar comprensión por medio de respuestas adecuadas a preguntas y peticiones sencillas.
- Uso de oraciones básicas para comunicar información relacionada con situaciones sencillas del día a día.
- Intercambio de información básica y descripciones de las actividades llevadas a cabo diariamente.
- Unión de grupos de palabras de forma sencilla por medio de then y and.
- Descripción de sus rutinas diarias y tiempo climatológico.
- Decir el tiempo y fechas.
- Descripción de sucesos en pasado.
Producción de lenguaje
Se espera que el alumno demuestre la capacidad de entender y usar las partículas del lenguaje que se nombran más abajo junto con las de los niveles anteriores ( nivel 1 y 2).
Gramática
- Oraciones en presente continuo. Ejemplo: I´m eating an apple.
- Uso de can y can´t. Ejemplo: I can ride a bike.
- Preposiciones de movimiento: from, to, up, down, along, across
- Preposiciones de tiempo: on, in, at
- Preposiciones de lugar: near, in front of, behind, opposite
- Pasado del verbo to be. Ejemplo: It was Sunday / I was at home
- Números cardinales hasta el 31 (fechas). Ejemplo: 1st, 2nd, 3rd (...) 31st
- Partículas de unión: and y then
Léxico/ Vocabulario
- Profesiones
- La ciudad
- Hogar
- Tiempo atmosférico
- Tiempo libre
- Horas y fechas
Fonética
- Correcta pronunciación de las palabras relacionadas con el léxico anterior.
- Uso de las contracciones de forma adecuada. Ejemplo: I´m, he´s, I´ve got...
- Articulación adecuada del acento y entonación óptima de palabras y frases cortas.
EJEMPLOS DE PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS
| Questions and answers GRADE 3 | ||
| What's your name? | 1 | My name is… |
| Where do you live? | 2 | I live in… |
| Is that near here? | 3 | No, it's half an hour from here by bus. |
| Do you go to school in / by…? | 4 | Yes/No, I go to school in/by… |
| Is it better than your school in…? | 5 | No/yes |
| Tell me about your school. | 6 | It's big/small. There are lots of students. |
| How many students are in your class? | 7 | There are… |
| Have you got a lot of friends? | 8 | Yes / no / some. |
| Who is your best friend? | 9 | María |
| Tell me what you like doing with your friends? | 10 | I like playing games. |
| *What do you like doing in your free-time? | 11 | I like horse-riding/playing computer games/playing with my friends… |
| *What kind of food do you like to eat? | 12 | I like chocolate… |
| *What do you do at the weekend? | 13 | Meet my friends/spend time with my family/play football. |
| On a school day, what time do you get up? | 14 | At 7 O'clock. |
| What do you do when you get up? | 15 | I have a shower/get dressed/have breakfast. |
| What do you do in the evenings? | 16 | I do my homework. |
| Do you watch TV in the evenings? | 17 | Yes. |
| What do you usually do on Saturdays? | 18 | I watch TV/meet my friends/play football. |
| Who is your favourite teacher? | 19 | My English teacher. |
| What's her name? | 20 | Her name is… |
| What does she look like? | 21 | She has brown hair and blue eyes. |
| Is she a good teacher? | 22 | Yes |
| Tell me about your house. | 23 | It has three rooms and a big garden. |
| What is in your bedroom? | 24 | There is a bed and a desk. |
| Is there a window? | 25 | Yes |
| What can you see out of the window? | 26 | I can see the city. |
| Can you play a musical instrument? | 27 | No I can't /Yes I can. I can play the piano. |
| What's the weather like today? | 28 | It's raining. |
| What's the weather like in Portugal? | 29 | It's sunny. |
| What is the date today? | 30 | It's Friday, the tenth of June. |
| What was the date yesterday? | 31 | It was Thursday, the ninth of June. |
| When is your birthday? | 32 | It's on the twenty-first of August. |
| Can you tell me about your family? | 33 | I have two sisters and a brother. |
| Are your family with you here? | 34 | Yes/No they are in… |
| *What does your husband/father do? | 35 | He's a business man. |
| *What's the name of the company? | 36 | |
| Here are some buttons. Could you take the yellow one. | 37 | (Candidates does as instructed) |
| Can you put it next to the red one. | 38 | (Candidates does as instructed) |
| Can you put the yellow one behind the red and the blackone. | 39 | (Candidates does as instructed) |
| Can you put the blue one in front of the yellow one. | 40 | (Candidates does as instructed) |
| Let's look at this picture. What are these people doing? | 41 | They are eating and drinking coffee. |
| Could you tell me something about this man in the picture. | 42 | He is drinking coffee. |
| What does he look like? | 43 | He has short, brown hair. |
| What is he wearing? | 44 | He's wearing a white shirt and black trousers. |
| Is it raining now? | 45 | No, it isn't. |
| What about yesterday? | 46 | It was cloudy and cold. |
| What do you du when you get home from school? | 47 | I listen to some music, I do my homework and then I have dinner. |
| What's the name of your best friend? | 48 | María |
| Tell me about María. | 49 | Maria's ten years old. She's tall and has brown hair. |
| Where is your classroom? | 50 | Go up the stairs. It's on the left. |
| What time do you go to bed? | 51 | At nine o'clock. |
| What time is it? And now? (points to different times on clock) | 52 | It's one O'clock / It's quarter to three. |
| Can you tell me the time now? | 53 | It's twenty to two. |
| What time do you get up? | 54 | At seven o'clock. |
| What programmes do you like? | 55 | I like… |
| Do you have any hobbies? | 56 | Yes, I play football/ I go dancing. |
| What sports do you like? | 57 | I like basketball/football/hockey/tennis… |
| Which do you prefer? | 58 | I prefer football. |
| Which position do you play? | 59 | I play… |
| Do you play against other schools? | 60 | Yes, sometimes. |
| How often do you play football? | 61 | Twice a week. |
| Tell me about some of the differences. | 62 | It's bigger/smaller… |
| Is your house in the centre? | 63 | No, it's further away /It's outside the centre. |
EJEMPLOS DE EXAMEN
