Berlin Abitur English (3rd subject / GK) case studies
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The Berlin Abitur English Grundkurs is the basic-course written examination in English taken as the third subject (drittes Prüfungsfach) within the Berlin Abitur. Candidates are typically upper-secondary students at a Berlin Gymnasium, Integrierte Sekundarschule with gymnasiale Oberstufe, or a berufliches Gymnasium who have completed the Grundkurs in English and want the subject to count toward the Abitur average rather than, or in addition to, their two advanced subjects. The Berlin Abitur English (3rd subject / GK) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,971 words.
1Reading the stance, not the words: an ironic column in the analysis task
Klausur, Q2 (GK), 90-minute part A: analysis of a non-fiction text. The excerpt is a 420-word column from a British broadsheet about a state school smartphone ban.
773 words, about 4 min2Hörverstehen, two playings: “cut” is not “cancelled”
Hörverstehen, GK, 20 minutes, two playings of a four-minute podcast extract about a city's bike-sharing pilot. The task sheet has eight true/false/not-stated items and a note-completion grid with five gaps.
794 words, about 4 min3The comment task: cutting 430 words to 350 without losing the argument
Schriftliche Klausur, Q1 GK, part B: “Write a comment for your school's English-language blog (250–350 words).” The prompt: our school is considering joining a European exchange programme; the annual cost per student would be €480 and only 30 of 210 students in the year could take part. Leon's draft is 430 words.
849 words, about 4 min4Sprachmittlung: rendering “Trägerverein”, “Taschengeld” and “Warteschleife” for an Irish audience
Sprachmittlung, GK, 30 minutes, monolingual dictionary allowed. Your Irish partner school is planning a gap-year fair and has asked for a short English summary of a German article on the Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr (FSJ).
756 words, about 4 min5Mündliche Prüfung: surviving the question that exposes a memorised talk
Mündliche Prüfung, GK, 20 minutes: a ten-minute presentation based on a one-page material (a cartoon and two statistics on social media and voting), then ten minutes of questions from two examiners. Sofia has memorised a nine-minute talk.
799 words, about 4 min