Review III · Before the exam

Final B1 review

Longer tasks that need several structures at once, in the shapes the exam uses.

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Last stop before the exam. Nothing new — but the tasks here are longer, and most of them need two or three structures in the same answer.

If you can do four things, you can do B1: tell what happened, say what you think and why, ask for something politely, and pass on what someone else said.

TaskWhat it needs
tell what happenedPerfekt + war/hatte + zuerst/dann + nachdem
argue a pointMeinung + Vorteil/Nachteil + obwohl/trotzdem + je…desto
ask politelyKonjunktiv II + indirect question + ob
pass it ondass / ob / bitten … zu
describe a processwird/wurde/muss … werden
describe a thingrelative clause + participle adjective

Practising the structures one at a time right up to the exam.Writing three connected sentences that use three different ones.

The exam asks for combinations, because that is what using a language is.

Words from this topic

  • die die Prüfungthe exam
  • zusammenfassento summarise
  • der der Überblickthe overview
  • vorbereitento prepare
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