Unit 10 — Kommunikationsprüfung Mock

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E (Basisfach / Leistungsfach)

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 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)

Lead-in story Link to heading

Mr. Yilmaz set today’s lesson as a full-format mock Kommunikationsprüfung (oral exam). Format: 5-min monologue + 5-min examiner dialogue + 2-min closing. Bewertungsraster (grading grid) provided in advance: kommunikative Textgestaltung and sprachliche Korrektheit und Variabilität, weighted 50/50 in Basisfach (basic course), 40/60 in Leistungsfach (advanced course).

1. Activate Link to heading

Stimulus draw. Each pair draws a stimulus card (image, statistic, quote). 90 seconds prep + 2 minutes outline.

2. Input Link to heading

Kommunikationsprüfung (oral exam) format Link to heading

  1. Monologue (5 min). Frame stimulus → 2-3 arguments → counter + concession → close.
  2. Dialogue (5 min). Examiner asks 5-7 follow-ups. Candidate must rebut, concede, elaborate, and connect to broader knowledge.
  3. Close (2 min). Synthesis + final stance.

Total ~12 minutes.

Bewertungsraster — sample categories Link to heading

Kommunikative Textgestaltung (40-50 %): Aufbau, Kohärenz, Adressatenbezug, Strategien der Gesprächsführung.

Sprachliche Korrektheit und Variabilität (50-60 %): Wortschatz, Grammatik, Idiomatik, Aussprache, Register-Sensibilität.

3. Practise Link to heading

Niveau E — controlled Link to heading

  1. Match: kommunikative Textgestaltung → structure + coherence; sprachliche Korrektheit → vocabulary + grammar.
  2. T or F: in Leistungsfach (advanced course), Sprache is weighted higher than Inhalt.

Niveau E — productive Link to heading

  1. Self-assess your last rehearsed monologue in two columns: Aufbau / Sprache.
Answer key

Controlled. 1. all true. 2. T (40 / 60 in LF).

Productive. 3. Open.

4. Produce Link to heading

Pair Komm-Prüfung mock. 12 minutes per pair. Audience scores using a simplified BW Bewertungsraster (grading grid). Class debrief at the end with each pair receiving one specific feedback sentence.

Sample Link to heading

Let me start with the stimulus image — a 2025 photograph of a flooded Bangladesh street with three rickshaws still operating. I would argue that the image is doing two things at once: documenting climate-induced displacement and resisting the framing of climate-vulnerable countries as purely passive. The available evidence suggests that the rickshaw economy in Bangladesh has, over the past fifteen years, adapted faster to seasonal flooding than urban planning has — through informal route shifts, raised platforms at intersections, and neighbourhood phone trees. The photograph captures this. Accordingly, what I am not saying is that the flooding is not a crisis; what I am saying is that the dominant Western framing of climate vulnerability tends to crop out the adaptation. Let me concede one point first: vulnerability is real, and the rickshaw economy itself has limits. When the floods exceed waist-height, the system breaks down. By contrast, between 2015 and 2025, the system handled approximately 80 % of seasonal events without major service disruption. On reflection, what the image is asking me to do is hold the crisis and the adaptation in the same frame. If I had to commit, I would say that international policy frames are, in this regard, ten years behind the photographs. The honest question for English-language climate journalism is not how vulnerable are these countries? but what have they already taught us that we have not yet absorbed?.

5. Reflect Link to heading

  • I can deliver a 5-minute monologue from a stimulus.
  • I can hold a 5-minute examiner dialogue.
  • I can self-assess against the Bewertungsraster (grading grid).

One thing in your notebook: Write one sentence using something you learned in this Unit.

Exam example Link to heading

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).

  1. Stimulus type: ___ . 2. Two arguments: ___ . 3. Concession + statistic: ___ . 4. Closing question: ___ .

Part B — Analysis (~18 BE) Link to heading

Read the sample monologue above.

  1. Two things the image is doing: ___ . 2. The not saying / saying contrast: ___ . 3. The specific concession: ___ . 4. Final commit: ___ .

Part C — Composition (~18 BE) Link to heading

Composition prompt: Write a 4-minute Komm-Prüfung-style monologue script (~280 words) on a stimulus of your choice. Use 6 spoken-academic phrases + 1 specific statistic.

Mediation (~30 BE) Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A 200-word German Klimawandel-Rede excerpt. Mediate the speaker’s rhetorical stance for an English-speaking climate-policy reader. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. 2025 photograph (flooded Bangladesh street with rickshaws); 2. (a) documenting climate-induced displacement (b) resisting passive framing; 3. system handles 80 % of seasonal events without major disruption (2015-2025); 4. what have these countries taught us that we have not yet absorbed? Analysis. documenting + resisting passive framing; not saying flooding isn’t a crisis — saying Western framing crops out adaptation; vulnerability + rickshaw-economy waist-height limit; international policy frames are ten years behind the photographs. Composition. Open. Mediation. Open.
grading scale (Notenschlüssel) (von 90 BE)
| 86–90 | 1+ | 81–85 | 1 | 76–80 | 1- | | 71–75 | 2+ | 66–70 | 2 | 61–65 | 2- | | 56–60 | 3+ | 51–55 | 3 | 46–50 | 3- | | 41–45 | 4+ | 36–40 | 4 | 30–35 | 4- | | 22–29 | 5 | 0–21 | 6 | | |

Downloads Link to heading

**Slide deck timing.** 90 minutes total (Doppelstunde). Lead-in 6 min · Activate 8 min · Input 25 min · Practise 15 min · Produce 30 min · Reflect 6 min.

Differentiation — support (below Niveau E).

Monologue scaffold — complete each move aloud from your stimulus card:

  • Frame: “Let me start with the stimulus — it shows ___ . I think it is really about ___ .”
  • Argue: “My first point is ___ . My second point is ___ .”
  • Concede: “I will admit one thing: ___ . But I still believe ___ .”
  • Close: “So the real question this stimulus raises is not ___ , but ___ ?”

Extension (above Niveau E / Oberstufe).

In the examiner-dialogue phase, defend a deliberately uncomfortable thesis: that the “spoken-academic register” itself quietly filters whose adaptation counts as knowledge, echoing the very cropping your stimulus critiques. Sustain it under three rebuttals, conceding one genuine limit without abandoning the claim, and close by naming what a fairer examiner grid would actually reward.

Common pitfalls Link to heading

  • Reading off prep notes during the monologue.
  • Generic concessions; name the specific point.
  • Missing the connect to broader knowledge expectation in the dialogue phase.

Further reading / listening Link to heading

  • Bildungsplan-aligned Komm-Prüfung mock-stimulus collections (Klett, Stark).
  • BBC Sounds — Question Time extracts for examiner-style follow-up rhythm.

Downloads

Presentation thumbnail for Unit 10 — Kommunikationsprüfung Mock
Presentation
Download .pdf
Worksheet thumbnail for Unit 10 — Kommunikationsprüfung Mock
Worksheet
Download .pdf