Goethe-Zertifikat B1 · Sprechen
Short drills on a single Teil, each marked by Felix, our AI examiner. Speak, or type — the transcript appears as you talk.
Three Teile, about 15 min per pair, with a partner in front of two examiners, after 15 minutes of preparation on your own. In Teil 1 you plan something together — a visit, a trip, a party: a situation, four guiding questions such as when, how do we get there, what do we take, how do we help, and a free point of your own. In Teil 2 you give a presentation of about three minutes on one of two topics, built on five fixed “slides” with the same instructions every time. In Teil 3 you react to your partner's presentation and ask a question, and answer the questions about yours.
The five slides are always the same: introduce the topic and say how the talk is built; a situation or experience of your own; the situation in your home country, with examples; advantages, disadvantages and your opinion; a closing and thanks. Erfüllung is counted by slides — all five is an A, three or four a B — so a talk that uses all its time on the second slide and never reaches the fifth loses points however well it is spoken.
Teil 1 is scored as a conversation, not two monologues: you make suggestions, respond to your partner's, give reasons and agree on a plan. Notes are allowed in all three Teile, but you are meant to speak freely. Here you answer by microphone, and the browser types along in German, or you type your answer. Felix marks the transcript on the criteria of the exam. He does not mark Aussprache: it is 16 of the 100 points, and a transcript has no accent to judge.
Yes. Every Sprechen task takes a transcript from your microphone or a typed answer, and both get the same marking, so you can practise on a train or in a shared room and still finish the exercise.
In the real exam, yes: Aussprache is 16 of the 100 points across all three Teile. Here it is not, because Felix works from a transcript. He marks every other criterion and tells you how many pronunciation points you would still need for 60.
After your partner's presentation you say how you liked it and what was new or interesting, and you ask one question about it. Then you answer your partner's question about your own presentation and one from the examiner. It is marked as Erfüllung, so saying nothing costs points directly.
