Berlin Abitur English LK study guide
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Das Berliner Abitur im Fach Englisch als Leistungskurs (LK) ist die zentrale schriftliche Abiturprüfung im Land Berlin für Schülerinnen und Schüler der gymnasialen Oberstufe, die Englisch als eines ihrer beiden Leistungsfächer gewählt haben. Der Leistungskurs richtet sich an Lernende mit deutlich erhöhtem Anspruchsniveau: erwartet werden sichere rezeptive und produktive Sprachkompetenz, vertiefte Textanalyse, argumentatives Schreiben und die Fähigkeit, zwischen Sprachen und Kulturen zu vermitteln. The Berlin Abitur English LK study guide has 5 sections and about 2,155 words.
01Hörverstehen / Listening Comprehension (Teil A)
Listening comprehension (Hörverstehen) belongs to Teil A of the Berlin LK written Abitur - the comprehension part answered without a dictionary. You hear authentic audio (radio features, interviews, podcasts, speeches) in British, American and other varieties, normally played twice, and answer items testing global understanding, selective detail and the speaker's stance.
413 words, about 2 min02Leseverstehen / Reading Comprehension (Teil A)
Reading comprehension (Leseverstehen) is the other half of Teil A: two to four authentic texts - a longer non-fiction article or speech transcript plus shorter items - answered without a dictionary. Items range from multiple choice and multiple matching to statement-plus-justification and short answers.
446 words, about 2 min03Sprachmittlung / Mediation (German ↔ English)
Sprachmittlung tests whether you can carry a message across languages and cultures for a real reader. The Berlin LK task supplies a German source (article, letter, notice, statistics) and an English-language situation: a named addressee, a purpose, often three or four bullet points defining what must be conveyed.
429 words, about 2 min04Schreiben / Text Production: Analysis and Comment (Teil B)
Text production (Schreiben) is Teil B: roughly three and a half hours with a monolingual dictionary, a choice of tasks on a material basis. Typical LK formats are the analysis of a non-fictional text or political speech, the comment (argumentative essay), and combinations such as analyse and then comment; re-creative tasks appear too.
429 words, about 2 min05Sprechen / Speaking: Mündliche Prüfung und Präsentationsprüfung
Speaking is examined twice in the LK: in the mündliche Prüfung of the fourth component (20 minutes, with 20 minutes preparation) and in the Präsentationsprüfung of the fifth component, where a longer presentation is followed by a colloquium. Both use a stimulus - a short text, cartoon, statistic or quotation - and both grade subject knowledge, structure, interaction and language (range, accuracy, pronunciation) against separate descriptors.
438 words, about 2 min