Common mistakes and misconceptions
- In Role play 6, many
candidates failed to understand the question Was hast du morgen vor? This phrasing should be expected, alongside
others, such as Welche Pläne hast du?,
which are designed to trigger a response in a future time frame.
- In Topic conversation 3,
it should be noted that question 4, requiring the story to be told of a problem
on a car journey, could be responded to as a form of role play. Not all
candidates have experienced in real life some of the situations they are
required to deal with in this syllabus, so responses to similar questions most
certainly do not have to be true.
- In Topic conversation 6,
the vocabulary item Gebäude caused
surprising difficulty, as did the more difficult Einkaufsmöglichkeiten.
For further details about how candidates performed in this particular
examination series please refer to the Principal Examiner Report for Teachers.