Editing Openai/67d15f5b-c450-800b-a548-b5b9d1d5c917 (section)

=== Assistant: Thank you! ===
Thank you! That's super interesting — and a really useful data point to see that our revised Step 5 now sits right on the edge of A2+/B1 in Pearson’s system (40-44 GSE), so progress made!

Also fascinating to see Step 9 now at B1+ (55-59) — quite close to our goal for that one.

===== Since Pearson rated Step 7 as B1 (44-48) — lower than my B1+ (56-58) estimate — we now know it needs clearer B1+ signals to "climb" into that next band. =====

===== What I’ll aim to add or adjust to lift it up while staying natural: =====
* More complex and connected sentences (e.g., relative clauses, conjunctions).
* Some modals and indirect speech (e.g., “She said that…” or "It might have cost...").
* A slightly broader range of vocabulary (e.g., "a great deal," "ended up paying").
* Keep smooth sequencing and discourse markers (e.g., "Then," "Finally," "At first").

===== : =====

===== Two women are having a conversation about a sweater that one of them bought recently. One of the women says that she really likes her friend's new sweater because it looks very good on her. Her friend explains that she bought it during the sales last week, and she was lucky to find it at a reduced price. =====

The first woman then asks how much she paid for it, and her friend smiles and says, “Why don’t you guess?” At first, the woman guesses it might have cost 80 or 100 euros because it looks expensive. However, her friend tells her that, thanks to a 25% discount, she ended up paying only 67 euros. She adds that she was very happy with the price and thinks it was a great bargain.

===== 1. More connected sentences and conjunctions: - "because it looks very good on her", "thanks to a 25% discount", "and she was lucky to find it at a reduced price". =====
# Time and sequencing phrases: - "recently", "last week", "then", "At first", "However".
# Modals and speculative language: - "might have cost...".
# Broader, slightly more sophisticated vocabulary: - "a reduced price", "ended up paying", "was very happy with the price", "a great bargain".
# Natural and fluid speech style, moving beyond shorter statements to flowing narrative.

===== - CEFR: B1+ =====
* GSE: 55-59 (possibly on the upper end of B1+)

💬 Want to try running this version through Pearson's analyzer to see if it hits B1+ as expected?
If yes, I can paste a clean copy here for you to drop in. Or, if you want, I can try to revise Step 7 again but aim for a clean B2 jump, just for comparison! Let me know which way you'd like to go.