Handout 2

Here are 20 extracts from commentaries for B2 First candidates.

Were they quoted as examples of:

A good degree of control of a range of simple grammatical forms?

Attempts some complex grammatical forms (with some success)?

GREY

Put an S for Simple or a C for Complex or a G

for grey by each quote

SIMPLE ??? GREY COMPLEX ???

 Talking outside is very  If there was a library, it

comfortable – that’s why I could be better
chose this place

 I went to Paris to see my  They are enjoying the time

friends because it’s summer

 Maybe the season is winter  There is a group of girls

who are trying to study
 You can speak more It’s a job which requires
fluently because you share professional skills
the same ideas

 In the first picture the  I’m like a huge fan of

woman could be impressed literature so I enjoy
by the picture learning

 I live in a little village near  I shouldn’t have done that

Lausanne

 I think the first one is  It depends on my mood, I

difficult because it requires think I would change my
a technical language and hair
so previous knowledge

 Being a policeman is also  I don’t think it’s good to do

dangerous something that lasts all
year long

 When you graduate from  I think the lady is

university, you aren’t a contemplating something
student anymore amazingly technical
 It’s hard to say, but it  It’s hard to say what he’s
depends on the situation doing