Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Hören · Teil 1
Fünf kurze Texte, zu jedem eine Richtig/Falsch-Aufgabe und eine Mehrfachauswahl – Sie hören nur einmal.
Five short, unrelated recordings — a conversation, a statement, a piece of everyday business — each carrying two items: first a richtig/falsch claim, then a multiple-choice question. Ten items in total, and the recordings are played once.
That single hearing is the whole difficulty, and it is where candidates who have prepared on repeat-everything material come undone. There is no second pass to check against, so the reading time before each recording is not a formality: it is when you decide what you are listening for.
The two items test different things on purpose. The richtig/falsch claim is about what the speaker is talking about — the global point — and when it is false, it is usually because the speaker talks about something adjacent to the claim. The multiple-choice item is about a detail or an opinion inside it. Reading the claim as if it were about a detail is the classic way to lose the first item of all five recordings.
Once. Teil 1 and Teil 3 are played once; Teil 2 and Teil 4 are played twice. The player here enforces the same rule rather than letting you rewind, because that is the condition you will sit in.
What the speaker is talking about overall, not a detail inside it. A claim that names a subject the speaker only brushes past is false even if every word of it appeared in the recording.
