Klausur (assessment) — Unit 2: Political Discourse, Advanced

Track E · Klasse 13 · Niveau E · Abitur-prep

Track E · Klasse 13 · Niveau E · Abitur-prep

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (Abitur-grade)
This Unit’s exam example follows the Abitur task pattern named in the Unit. Some Units focus on a single Abitur-task type (Comprehension / Analysis / Composition / Mediation / Kommunikationsprüfung); the full 90-BE Klausur is rehearsed in Klasse 12 Units 11-12 and continues in Klasse 13 Units 7-9.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Comprehension Link to heading

Listen / read twice.

“Speaker B’s answer opens with a loaded antithesis — the question is not whether but how — that refuses the binary the questioner offered. The topic migrates to the cost-of-living frame. The phrase those who play the system is a documented dog whistle in this party’s communications since 2018.”

  1. Loaded antithesis: ___ . 2. Topic migration: ___ . 3. Dog whistle: ___ . 4. Documented since: ___ .

Analysis Link to heading

Read the three PMQs paraphrases above.

  1. Speaker A’s tactic: ___ . 2. Speaker B’s tactic: ___ . 3. Speaker C’s tactic: ___ . 4. The shared feature: ___ .

Composition / Mediation / Reflection Link to heading

Composition prompt: Analyse the rhetorical structure of Speaker A in 350 words. Use 4 advanced rhetorical terms + 3 markers + 1 cleft.

Additional task Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A 250-word German Bundestag-Rede excerpt with documented dog-whistle vocabulary. Mediate the rhetorical stance for an English-speaking political-rhetoric researcher. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. not whether but how; 2. social housing → cost-of-living; 3. those who play the system; 4. 2018. Analysis. 1. shifts to broader cost-of-living frame; 2. loaded antithesis (not whether but how); 3. ad-hominem on questioner’s constituency record; 4. all three answer technically without doing what the question asked. Composition. Open. Mediation. Open.
grading scale (Notenschlüssel) — Abitur-grade Klausuren

| 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 | | |

(Single-section Klausuren in this year scale to the proportional BE-weight of the section in the full Klausur.)