SELT Practice
GESE Grade 2 Days, months and numbers: questions and sample answers
Trinity lists days of the week, months of the year and numbers up to 50 for Grade 2. The examiner may ask about your week or your birthday. This page has 10 original practice questions and 3 short sample answers at CEFR A1, as of 10 November 2026. They are our own, not real test questions.
What the examiner wants at Grade 2
Grade 2 is CEFR A1 and has one phase, a conversation with the examiner of up to 6 minutes. Short answers are fine, and so are full sentences. The examiner listens for simple descriptions of people, animals, objects and places, and for you to say where things are. At least once you must ask the examiner a very simple question about personal details.
Useful grammar for this grade: the present simple, "there is" and "there are", "has got" and "have you got?", and place words such as "in", "on", "under", "between" and "next to".
Trinity's specification does not give a list of conversation subjects for Grade 2. It lists vocabulary areas instead, and the examiner builds the chat from them. We use those areas as our subjects. Source: Trinity specifications.
10 example questions on days, months and numbers
An examiner could ask questions like these. They are our own practice questions. Answer each one out loud.
- What day is it today?
- What day do you like best?
- When is your birthday?
- What month is it?
- How many people are in your family?
- How old are you?
- What day do you go shopping?
- How many days are there in a week?
- What is your telephone number?
- Which month do you like best?
3 short sample answers
These answers are written at the level of the grade. Do not learn them by heart. Use them to see the size and shape of a good answer, then say your own.
When is your birthday?
“My birthday is in March. It is on the tenth.”
What day do you like best?
“I like Saturday. I do not work on Saturday.”
How many people are in your family?
“There are five people. My mother, my father, two sisters and me.”
Useful words
- Monday
- Friday
- Sunday
- January
- June
- December
- birthday
- today
- week
- month
- twenty
- forty-five
Say each word aloud three times. Then use two or three of them in one sentence about your own life.
Common mistakes
- Forgetting the small word. Say "on Monday" and "in June".
- Mixing 13 and 30, or 15 and 50. Say them slowly.
- Running months together. Say "January" and "June" clearly, with the right stress.
Ask the examiner a question
Trinity says you must ask the examiner at least one question at Grade 2. Ask it when the talk feels easy and listen to the answer. A question for this subject: “When is your birthday?”
Practise this subject
Reading is not enough. Say your answers out loud, then listen to yourself.
- Practise the Grade 2 conversation with the AI examiner. It asks questions out loud and you answer out loud.
- Trinity GESE Grade 2 (A1): test format
- All Grade 2 subjects
- Free level check (no sign-up)
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Will the examiner ask these questions at Grade 2?
No. These are our own practice questions. The examiner chooses their own, and you cannot know them in advance. Practise the type of question, not these words.
Is days, months and numbers a Trinity subject for Grade 2?
Trinity's specification lists rooms in the home, household objects, family and friends, pets, possessions, days, months and numbers as the vocabulary areas for Grade 2. It does not publish a subject list for this grade, so the examiner may bring in any of them.
Can I learn the sample answers by heart?
No. Trinity warns that learned answers stop you taking part in a real conversation. Use the samples for ideas, then answer in your own words about your own life.