Goethe B1 — Richtig oder Falsch.

A personal text in the first person — a blog post or an e-mail of about 300–350 words — and six statements to mark richtig or falsch. The text tells something that happened: what, how it ended, what the writer thought or planned. The statements follow the order of the text, so the place for statement 4 always lies below the place for statement 3 and you never have to search backwards. An example (0) is solved for you, and 10 minutes are recommended.

The trap is the gap between what someone wanted or thought and what happened. Take “Den Umzug am Samstag wollten wir eigentlich mit dem Kleinbus meines Bruders Jonas machen. Dann rief Jonas an: Der Bus war in der Werkstatt.” The statement “Der Umzug fand mit dem Bus des Bruders statt” is falsch — “wollten … eigentlich” marks a plan that did not happen. A guess works the same way: after “Ich dachte erst, der Kombi sei zu klein, aber es ging ohne Probleme”, the statement “Der Kombi war zu klein” is falsch. Other falsch statements swap the person who did something, or the order of events (“nachdem” shows what came first).

Read statement 1, find its place, decide, and go on from there with statement 2, so that you read the text once, not six times. For each statement check three things: who did it, when, and whether it really happened or was only wanted, hoped or thought. If one of them is wrong the statement is falsch, however much of it is right.