Last tips for the Abitur

How do you feel today? Draw an emoji!

Answer explanation

So many Picassos!

Do you quote in summaries or similar comprehension tasks?

• You must, in fact!

• You may. It's up to you.

• You must not! Never!

Answer explanation

NEVER EVER IN SUMMARIES! NEVER NEVER NEVER!

Do you quote in analyses?

• You must, in fact!

• You may. It's up to you.

• You must not! Never!

Answer explanation

You must because the quotes are your pieces of evidence!

Do you quote in comments and/ or creative writing tasks?

• You must, in fact!

• You may. It's up to you.

• You must not! Never!

Answer explanation

You may. It depends on the task!

Which topic will you pick?

• African American Experiences

• Love and Power in Shakespeare's plays

• It depends on the text in the ABITUR

• I'll flip a coin

The main goal of mediation is...

• ‘getting the message across’ in another language

• to translate word by word

In a mediation task you

• sum up everything from the source text

• outline what is relevant to the addressee and / or to the context given in the task

Tick the two quotes that are correct.

• "I am the senate." (l. 4)

• ,,I am the senate” (l. 4)

• "I am the senate"

• In line 4 the emperor claims that he "is the senate".

Answer explanation

Remember the upper “...” quotation marks!

When do you present / discuss your own opinion?

• Summary

• Analysis

• Comment

• Creative Writing

For every text you write you need...

• an introduction in which you give contextual information and briefly the issue

• the main body in which you present all the relevant information

• a conclusion in which you close the text by briefly wrapping up your information

Answer explanation

Imagine each text is written to somebody who has not read the source text!

So, imagine that I do not know anything!