Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Sprechen · Teil 2
Tauschen Sie zu einer strittigen Frage Standpunkte mit Ihrem Gesprächspartner aus, reagieren Sie auf seine Argumente und fassen Sie am Ende zusammen.
One controversial yes/no question, about five minutes for the pair, and three printed instructions: exchange your positions, respond to your partner's arguments, and sum up at the end whether you are for or against.
All three are assessed, and the third is the one that vanishes under time pressure. A discussion that simply stops when the examiner intervenes has not done what the task asked; a closing sentence — "Unterm Strich bin ich also dafür, weil…" — is a required move, not a flourish.
The second instruction is what separates a good performance from a fluent one. Two candidates delivering parallel monologues can both speak excellent German and both lose points under Interaktion. Picking up your partner's actual argument — naming it, then agreeing or objecting to it — is the behaviour being marked.
Say so and take it further — agreement is not a failure state. What is assessed is whether you exchange positions, respond to what your partner actually said, and reach a summary; finding a point where you differ in emphasis keeps the discussion moving without inventing a disagreement.
No. They are offered as prompts if the discussion stalls, and the list is deliberately open-ended. A pair that keeps a real argument going without them loses nothing.
