Písemná produkce - Written production
Písemná produkce - written production
The písemná práce contains two tasks. The shorter one is a transactional text - an e-mail or message reacting to a situation, an invitation, a short notice. The longer one is a formal letter, an article, an essay, a report or a narrative. Marks come from task fulfilment (all points covered), organisation (paragraphs, connectors), range and accuracy of vocabulary and grammar, and register. Each task has a word limit, and falling clearly below it costs marks.
Both tasks
- Underline every bullet point in the prompt and tick it off after writing; one missing point damages the content score more than a grammar slip.
- One idea per paragraph, joined by connectors: zuerst, danach, außerdem, deshalb, trotzdem, allerdings, einerseits … andererseits, zum Schluss.
- Never copy whole sentences from the prompt; paraphrase them.
- Leave two minutes to reread for verb position, endings and capitalisation.
Formal letter or e-mail
Salutation with a comma and the text continuing in lower case: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, / Sehr geehrte Frau Nováková, Closing: Mit freundlichen Grüßen plus your name, no comma after the formula. Keep Sie/Ihnen/Ihr capitalised, avoid contractions and slang. Typical structure: reason for writing → details → request or complaint → polite closing.
Informal e-mail
Liebe Anna, / Hallo Tim, and Liebe Grüße / Bis bald; du forms throughout; contractions and particles (doch, mal) are fine.
Article and narrative
An article needs a headline, a hook in the first line, two or three body paragraphs and an opinion at the end. A narrative is told in the Präteritum with time markers (zuerst, plötzlich, schließlich) and at least one turning point.
Worked example
Prompt: write to a language school asking about a summer course - start date, price, accommodation.
Weak opening: „Hallo! Ich will wissen, was der Kurs kostet. Schreib mir schnell.“
Fixed: „Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich interessiere mich für Ihren Sommerkurs und möchte Sie um einige Informationen bitten.“
Reasoning: the first version uses informal address, a demand instead of a request, and never names the topic; the second fixes register, uses the polite möchten + um … bitten structure and announces the purpose, which sets up the three bullet points.
Traps that cost marks
- Mixing du and Sie inside one text.
- Missing the comma after the salutation, or capitalising the first word of the letter body.
- Forgetting the closing formula or the signature.
- Writing a memorised essay that answers only part of the prompt.