Bremen Abitur English case studies
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The Bremen Abitur in English is the English component of the general higher education entrance qualification (Allgemeine Hochschulreife) awarded in the Land Bremen, administered within the portfolio of the Senator für Kinder und Bildung. It is taken by students at allgemeinbildende Schulen in Bremen and Bremerhaven at the end of the gymnasiale Oberstufe and serves as the subject-specific proof of competence for university admission and for English-dependent study programmes and careers. The Bremen Abitur English case studies are 5 cases and about 2,615 words.
1Mediation Email: Rescheduling a Bristol School Visit
You are Lena, a 17-year-old student at a Gymnasium in Bremen. Your English course has partnered with a sixth form in Bristol.
564 words, about 3 min2Speech Analysis: The Laboratory Metaphor in a Wind-Farm Debate
In a mock exam you are asked to analyse a short excerpt from a fictional speech by a town mayor about a proposed wind-farm pilot. The excerpt reads: 'We cannot allow our town to be turned into a laboratory for experiments designed in Berlin.
501 words, about 3 min3Literary Ambiguity: An Unreliable Narrator and the Damp House
Read this opening from a fictional short story set in a northern German town: 'I never minded the house. It was my mother who called it damp.
487 words, about 2 min4Listening Inference: A School Street Trial and Two Sides of the Same Data
In a listening task you hear a three-minute podcast segment about a council trial that banned cars from a street outside a primary school. The transcript includes: 'The trial cut traffic at the school gate by 38 per cent.
529 words, about 3 min5Composition Planning: A Partial Smartphone Ban in School Breaks
You are writing the composition task for the Abitur: 'Should smartphones be banned during school breaks?' You must write 250–300 words. You have two source extracts.
534 words, about 3 min