Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Sprechen · Teil 1
Wählen Sie eines von zwei Themen, bereiten Sie sich vor und sprechen Sie circa vier Minuten frei – mit Einleitung, Hauptteil und Schluss. Danach beantworten Sie Fragen.
A prepared Vortrag: you choose one of two topics, take your share of the fifteen minutes' preparation, and speak for about four minutes with an Einleitung, a Hauptteil and a Schluss. Then the questions come — from the examiner and from your partner — and you answer them.
Each topic comes with three bullets that prescribe what to do: describe several options, take one of them further, then give advantages and disadvantages and evaluate them. That last verb is the one candidates skip. Listing three advantages and three disadvantages and stopping is an incomplete answer; the task asks which way the balance falls and why.
Two scored things get forgotten. You are expected to put a question to your partner after their talk — it is an assessed item, not politeness. And the instruction says "frei sprechen": notes are allowed, reading from them is not, and a talk delivered from a script is marked down under Kohärenz and fluency however good the script is.
About four minutes of speaking, within roughly four minutes of exam time per candidate, so a pair spends about eight minutes on Teil 1 in total. Preparation is fifteen minutes on your own, covering both Teile, with notes allowed but no dictionaries or phones.
You can use them, but the task says to speak freely, and reading aloud is penalised under coherence and fluency. Practise from keywords rather than sentences — a talk built on six keywords survives nerves better than one built on a paragraph you are trying to remember.
Yes. After your partner's talk you ask a question and they answer — asking and answering follow-up questions is separately assessed in Teil 1, and it carries real weight. Saying nothing costs points directly.
