Grade 12 English — Discourse and analysis (Oberstufe) on EFL

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 1: Dystopias

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read the 1984 opening (paraphrased above) and answer:

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 10: Kommunikationsprüfung Mock

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice to a sample monologue (above).

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 11: Klausur: Comprehension and Analysis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read the source (provided in class) twice. Comprehension prompt: In your own words, outline the writer’s central claim about attention economies (5 BE). Explain how the writer distinguishes attention from engagement (10 BE). Compare the writer’s framing with one alternative framing the writer references (9 BE).

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 12: Klausur: Composition and Comment

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Composition prompt: Discuss the writer’s central claim about attention economies in 280 words. Use 1 integrated quote + 4 academic discourse markers + 1 cleft + 2 hedges.

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 2: Globalisation Debates

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen / read twice.

“World trade as a share of GDP rose from 39 % in 1990 to 60 % by 2008. It has plateaued since. About one billion people were lifted out of extreme poverty in the same period, predominantly in East and South Asia. Intra-country inequality grew in advanced economies. Supply-chain fragility was under-priced.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 3: Science and Ethics

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read twice.

“Consequentialism asks what produces the best outcomes; deontology asks what we are required to do regardless of consequences; virtue ethics asks what kind of researcher we want to be. Real debates combine all three.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 4: Shakespeare in Extract

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read twice.

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold, / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 5: Political Discourse

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen / read twice.

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say. You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 6: The Non-Fiction Essay

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read twice the Speaking in Tongues paraphrase above.

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 7: Mediation: An Academic Text

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read twice.

“Diese Arbeit untersucht intergenerationale Einkommensmobilität in 18 OECD-Ländern. Methodisch nutzen wir verlinkte Steuerregisterdaten. Die Hauptergebnisse legen nahe, dass die Mobilität in Kontinentaleuropa höher ist als in den USA. Der Abstand zwischen Kohorten ist in Deutschland und Frankreich gewachsen.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 8: Post-Colonial Voices, Advanced

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read twice.

“The narrator’s two surnames sit side by side on a London library card. The library card itself is a postcolonial artefact: two languages, two empires, one borrower.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 9: A Novel in Full

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Read twice.

“The motif of language as control moves through three phases: scripture-coded greetings (Blessed be the fruit) early; Offred’s silent private register in the middle; the Historical Notes academic-recovery frame at the close.”

Schedule — Grade 12 · Track E

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The twelve Units of Grade 12 (E) across the school year. Each Unit covers roughly three teaching weeks.

Unit	Title	Skills focus	Exam type
1	Dystopias	reading, writing, intercultural	Klausur (assessment)
2	Globalisation Debates	reading, writing, intercultural	Klausur (assessment)
3	Science and Ethics	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
4	Shakespeare in Extract	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
5	Political Discourse	reading, listening, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
6	The Non-Fiction Essay	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
7	Mediation: An Academic Text	mediation, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
8	Post-Colonial Voices, Advanced	reading, writing, intercultural	Klausur (assessment)
9	A Novel in Full	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
10	Kommunikationsprüfung Mock	speaking, listening, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
11	Klausur: Comprehension and Analysis	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
12	Klausur: Composition and Comment	writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)

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Unit 1 — Dystopias

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Template: Activate → Input → Practise → Produce → Reflect.
Niveau: E. Klausur (assessment) at Niveau E (90 BE).
Course tagging: basic course (Basisfach, E-BF) and advanced course (Leistungsfach, E-LF).

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read extracts from three canonical dystopias (Orwell, Huxley, Atwood) and identify each text’s central control mechanism.
I can use the vocabulary of literary dystopia (surveillance, complicity, conditioning, dehumanisation, language control).
I can write a 350-word comparative literary essay tracing one motif across three texts.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 10 — Kommunikationsprüfung Mock

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can deliver a 5-minute Abitur-style monologue from a stimulus and respond to a 5-minute examiner dialogue.
I can use the formal spoken-academic register and rebut / concede in real time.
I can self-assess my performance against the BW Abitur Bewertungsraster (grading grid).

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.1 / 3.5.3.1 Hör-/Hörsehverstehen
3.4.3.3 / 3.5.3.3 Sprechen – an Gesprächen teilnehmen
3.4.3.4 / 3.5.3.4 Sprechen – zusammenhängendes monologisches Sprechen

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 11 — Klausur: Comprehension and Analysis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can answer a Klausur Comprehension section (~24 BE) on a literary or journalistic source under timed conditions.
I can write a Klausur Analysis section (~18 BE) with sustained close reading and integrated quotation.
I can deploy time-management discipline across the two sections.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 12 — Klausur: Composition and Comment

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can complete a Klausur Composition section (~18 BE) — argument or creative response — under timed conditions.
I can complete a Klausur Mediation section (~30 BE) for a named English-speaking addressee.
I can manage time across the second half of the Klausur.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.3.6 / 3.5.3.6 Sprachmittlung
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 2 — Globalisation Debates

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read short pro and contra positions on globalisation and identify the empirical claim each side hangs on.
I can use the vocabulary of contested-policy debate (supply chain, inequality, externality, comparative advantage, regulatory race).
I can write a 350-word op-ed that holds two readings of globalisation in productive tension.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.2 / 3.5.2 Interkulturelle kommunikative Kompetenz
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 3 — Science and Ethics

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read short ethics-of-science texts (CRISPR, large language models, climate intervention) and identify the consequentialist and deontological moves.
I can use vocabulary of science ethics (precautionary principle, dual use, informed consent, moratorium, governance).
I can write a 350-word science-ethics essay with a structured ethical argument.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 4 — Shakespeare in Extract

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can close-read a Shakespeare extract (sonnet or short scene) and identify form, voice, and one figurative move.
I can engage Early Modern syntactic inversion and lexical density.
I can write a 400-word literary essay with sustained close reading.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 5 — Political Discourse

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read / listen to a political speech and identify rhetorical moves (anaphora, antithesis, tricolon, frame-setting).
I can use the vocabulary of rhetorical analysis (ethos / pathos / logos, kairos, frame, register shift).
I can write a 400-word rhetorical-analysis essay.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.1 / 3.5.3.1 Hör-/Hörsehverstehen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 6 — The Non-Fiction Essay

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read a contemporary non-fiction essay and identify thesis, supporting moves, and stylistic register.
I can use vocabulary of essayistic prose (premise, claim, qualification, anecdote-as-argument, the moral turn).
I can write a 400-word non-fiction essay of my own with a clear thesis and one anecdote-as-argument.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 7 — Mediation: An Academic Text

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can mediate a 500-word German academic text into 15 English sentences for a named addressee.
I can preserve hedge structure, modal nuance, citation conventions, and disciplinary register.
I can use the full reporting-verb toolkit and add cultural / disciplinary notes where needed.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.3.6 / 3.5.3.6 Sprachmittlung
3.4.3.7 / 3.5.3.7 Verfügen über sprachliche Mittel – Wortschatz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 8 — Post-Colonial Voices, Advanced

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read longer post-colonial extracts and identify the writer’s stance on the imperial archive in detail.
I can use academic-postcolonial vocabulary (hybridity, mimicry, the subaltern, double consciousness, world-Anglophone).
I can write a 400-word essay sustaining a complex post-colonial argument.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.2 / 3.5.2 Interkulturelle kommunikative Kompetenz
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 9 — A Novel in Full

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read a complete novel (Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale or Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun) and write a sustained 500-word essay tracing one motif across the whole work.
I can move between close reading and structural argument fluidly.
I can use the full literary-analysis toolkit at Leistungsfach (advanced course) standard.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)