class test ("Klassenarbeit") — Unit 9: Youth Protest Movements

Track E · Klasse 10 · Niveau E · 45 Minuten

Track E · Klasse 10 · Niveau E · 45 Minuten

class test ("Klassenarbeit") — Niveau E (45 minutes)
Time. 45 minutes. Total. 45 points.

Task 1 — Listening (10 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The school-strike movement drew millions across more than 130 countries. Its demand — that governments listen to climate scientists — was clear and its tactic, visible absence, was easily understood. The Lisbon housing movement used building occupations and detailed policy papers; its demands were narrower.”

  1. School-strike scale: ___ . 2. School-strike demand: ___ . 3. Lisbon tactic: ___ . 4. Lisbon demands: ___ .

Task 2 — Reading (12 BE) Link to heading

Read the Two Youth Movements extract above.

  1. Years of school-strike: ___ . 2. School-strike tactic: ___ . 3. Lisbon years + tactic: ___ . 4. The argument about legibility vs. specificity: ___ .

Task 3 — Use of English (10 BE) Link to heading

Build a cleft sentence emphasising the underlined phrase.

  1. the legibility of the first movement made it useful → ___
  2. the specificity of the second produced sharper results → ___
  3. the public eventually decided the issue → ___
  4. the writers were responsible for the framing → ___

Task 4 — Writing (13 BE) Link to heading

Write 220 words: a comparison of two youth movements with one cleft + 2 hedges.

Answer key
T1. millions across 130+ countries; listen to climate scientists; building occupations + policy papers; narrower / harder to summarise. T2. 2018-2020; visible absence (school walk-outs); 2024-2026 / building occupations + policy papers; legibility wins attention, specificity wins policy. T3. It was the legibility … that made it useful. It was the specificity … that produced sharper results. It was the public that decided. It was the writers that were responsible. T4. Open.
grading scale (Notenschlüssel) (von 45)
| 42–45 | 1 | 36–41 | 2 | 30–35 | 3 | | 22–29 | 4 | 13–21 | 5 | 0–12 | 6 |