North Rhine-Westphalia Zentralabitur Modern Greek case studies
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The Zentralabitur Modern Greek in North Rhine-Westphalia is the state-run Abitur examination in Modern Greek (Neugriechisch), taken under the centrally set tasks that North Rhine-Westphalia's school ministry issues for the modern foreign languages. It is designed for students at Gymnasien and Gesamtschulen in NRW who have built Modern Greek as a second or third foreign language, or who bring Greek family or migration background and want the language formally assessed. It can serve as a written Abitur subject, as an oral examination subject, or as the fourth Abitur subject in oral form. The exam tests reading and listening comprehension, vocabulary and grammar control, text production, intercultural communicative competence, analysis of literary and non-literary texts, and the ability to situate material within the content areas of society and coexistence, history and memory, and identity and life plans. The North Rhine-Westphalia Zentralabitur Modern Greek case studies are 5 cases and about 2,880 words.
1The masked numeral in a listening task: 1,600 or 1,800 hours?
Listening comprehension mock, Modern Greek, 25 minutes. Candidates hear a twice-played radio interview with Eleni, coordinator of a time bank in Patras.
564 words, about 3 min2Reading «Δεν έχουμε τίποτα» literally: a guest’s response in a Cretan host family
During a school exchange in Rethymno, a German pupil, Jonas, is invited to Sunday lunch by his host family. The table holds six dishes, including two kinds of meat, a large salad and dessert.
524 words, about 3 min3The grandmother, the phone and the buttons: is the text nostalgic?
Text analysis task, 90 minutes. Candidates receive the following original micro-prose and a German translation: «Η γιαγιά μου κρατούσε το τηλέφωνο σαν κουτάλι.
599 words, about 3 min4Two sources on 1922–1923: family memoir versus museum placard
History exam, source comparison. Candidates get two short sources on the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the 1923 population exchange.
545 words, about 3 min5Commenting on Dimitra’s «Δεν γυρίζω» without patriotic guilt or migration cliché
Writing task, 75 minutes. Candidates read a blog post by Dimitra, 24, who moved from Thessaloniki to Berlin: «Δεν γυρίζω.
648 words, about 3 min