Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Schreiben · Teil 2
Halboffizielle Nachrichten an eine konkrete Person – erklären, vorschlagen, höflich bitten. Mit Anrede, Gruß und Sie-Form.
Around 100 words to a named person — a manager, a landlord, a course leader — worth 40 of the module's 100 points. Here the rubric does ask for an Anrede and a Gruß, and the whole text is in the Sie-Form with polite modality: "ich würde vorschlagen", "wäre es möglich", "ich bitte Sie um Verständnis".
The four Inhaltspunkte are printed scattered around the page rather than in a list, with an instruction to choose a sensible order for them. That is part of the task: the order you put them in is assessed under Kohärenz, and the obvious arrangement — situation, explanation, proposal, understanding — is obvious for a reason.
One of the four bullets almost always asks for something conciliatory: show understanding, apologise, acknowledge the other side's position. It is the most frequently skipped, because it feels like padding to a candidate counting words. It is not padding; it is one of the four functions Erfüllung is graded on, and at B2 the ability to concede politely is precisely what is being tested.
Sie, unless the task explicitly sets up a friend. The situations are semi-official — a workplace, a landlord, a course — and slipping into du is a register error marked under Aufgabenerfüllung.
Yes — the task asks you to find a suitable order, and the result is marked under Kohärenz. Situation first, then explanation, then your proposal, then the conciliatory point is a safe arrangement in almost every task.
Either — you may start with whichever you like. But budget the time the way the points fall: the Forumsbeitrag is worth 60 points and about 50 minutes, the Nachricht 40 points and about 25. Candidates who polish the shorter text first regularly run out of time on the one worth more.
