Goethe B1 Sprechen Teil 1.

A situation from everyday life, four guiding questions and about three minutes: that is all you get to agree a plan with your partner, who is another candidate, not an examiner. Take a made-up example, an evening at a gravel-pit lake with colleagues: “Wann treffen wir uns?”, “Wie kommen wir hin?”, “Was bringen wir mit?”, “Wen fragen wir noch?” and a last “…” for a point of your own. The instruction asks for three things: make suggestions, react to your partner’s, decide together. That is 28 of the 100 points — Erfüllung 8 (suggesting, agreeing, declining with a reason, counter-suggesting, settling), Interaktion 4 (starting, keeping going and ending the talk), Wortschatz 8, Strukturen 8.

Open with a suggestion and hand the turn back: “Wie wäre es, wenn wir uns um halb sechs am Bahnhof treffen? Was meinst du?” In the middle, give each question about half a minute and do more than say yes: “Um halb sechs schaffe ich es nicht, weil ich bis sechs arbeite. Wie wäre es stattdessen mit sieben Uhr?” Agreeing to a counter-suggestion is the next step, not a defeat. Keep the last minute for the decision: sum up who does what, ask “Abgemacht?” and say goodbye.

Points go when you only say “Ja, gut”, when four questions become four monologues, and when time runs out with no plan. In the 15 minutes of preparation write one keyword and one reason per question, not sentences. Here Felix, our AI examiner, plays your partner and marks the transcript against the Teil 1 criteria; he does not mark Aussprache (16 points), and his result is an estimate.