Lesen - 30 Minuten, vier Teile: kurze Alltagstexte verstehen
The Lesen module checks whether you can pull concrete information out of short, everyday German texts: personal emails, notices on a door, classified ads, simple newspaper or website articles. You have 30 minutes for four parts and no dictionary. The texts themselves are short - often 50 to 120 words - but the items are built so that spotting a familiar word is never enough. The correct answer usually depends on one sentence, and that sentence has to be understood as a whole, including its negation or its time reference.
Die vier Teile
- Teil 1: one short personal text (E-Mail, Notiz, Aushang) and statements to mark as richtig or falsch.
- Teil 2: several very short Anzeigen or notices that you match to situations, typically along the lines of "Wo finden Sie ...?" or "Welche Anzeige passt?".
- Teil 3: a slightly longer text with three-option multiple choice (a, b, c).
- Teil 4: a further everyday text (letter, information sheet, short article) with comprehension items.
Was die Aufgaben wirklich prüfen
- Detailverstehen: a price, a time, an address, an opening day.
- Zuordnung über Synonyme: "kostenlos" matches "gratis", "bis 18 Uhr geöffnet" matches "abends", "Kurs am Wochenende" matches "Samstag und Sonntag".
- Aussagen prüfen: does the statement match the text, or only sound plausible?
Ein durchgerechnetes Beispiel
Text: "Hallo Sara, am Samstag kann ich leider nicht zum Deutschkurs kommen, weil meine Eltern zu Besuch kommen. Hast du am Sonntag Zeit für einen Kaffee? Liebe Grüße, Mia" Aussage: "Mia hat am Samstag keine Zeit." - Richtig. Reasoning: the sentence "am Samstag kann ich leider nicht ... kommen" is the direct evidence. The weil-clause only explains the reason. The word Deutschkurs is a deliberate distractor: it appears in the text, but the statement is not about the course. If an item asks something the text never states, do not fill the gap with world knowledge - in a richtig/falsch format, unsupported means falsch.
Typische Fallen
- Wortgleichheit statt Bedeutung: an option repeats a word from the text while the meaning is wrong.
- Negationen: nicht, kein, nie, leider, geschlossen - read the sentence to the end before deciding.
- Zeit- und Zahlenangaben: ab 18 Uhr, montags geschlossen, bis Ende Juni are frequent item targets.
- Zeitmanagement: roughly seven minutes per part; if one item resists you, mark a guess and move on rather than re-reading the same paragraph four times.