Integrated Skills in English B2
This test from Trinity College is at B2 level.
You take Trinity B2in two parts — Reading & Writing and
Speaking & Listening.
The Reading & Writing exam takes 2 hours and has four parts:
- Task 1 — Long reading - one long text and 15 questions
- Task 2 — Multi-text reading - Read 4 short texts and answer 15 questions.
- Task 3 — Reading into writing - Use information from all four texts from task 2 to write an answer to a question. This could be an essay, article, email, letter, review or report. . 150–180 words
- Task 4 — Extended writing - Write an essay, article, email, letter, review or report in response to a question.150–180 words.
The Speaking & Listening exam is a one-to-one interview with a Trinity examiner.
The exam is in three parts:
- Topic task - You need to talk about a topic you have already prepared
- Collaborative task - Your examiner will read a prompt and you need to ask questions and make comments to keep the conversation going.
- Conversation task - Discuss a topic with the examiner
- Independent listening tasks - You listen to a recording and answer the examiner's questions.
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