telc B1 Lesen Teil 2: check each answer against the text

• 5questions on one text
• 3answers for each question, ‘a’ to ‘c’
• 90 minfor all the reading and Sprachbausteine

What the paper looks like

This is Teil 2, just like on exam day. You read one text and answer five questions about it, each with ‘a’, ‘b’ or ‘c’.

The method

1. 6

   1Read the question first

2. 6

   2Find the part of the text the question is about

3. ✕

   ✓

   3Check every word of the answer against the text

Let's do question 6 together

An answer can sound true and still be wrong. Only pick an answer when you can point to the sentence in the text that says it.

Your turn: question 7

Answers that only sound true

Each question has two wrong answers. In Teil 2 they often look like one of these three.

1. ✕

   True in real life, but not in the text

   dürfen nicht allein schwimmen means ‘may not swim alone’. That sounds right for small children, but the text never says it.

2. ✕

   The text says the opposite

   steht schon seit einem Jahr means ‘has been there for a year’. But the text says the pool wird im Herbst eröffnet, so it opens in autumn.

3. ✕

   Words from the text in the wrong place

   Question 8 asks about Monday, and one answer says ist der Eintritt frei, ‘entry is free’. Entry is free only for children under six, and on Mondays the pool is closed.

When two answers both look possible, check each one for these three traps. The answer that passes all three checks is the right one.