In Part 1 you write a personal email to a friend. Here’s how to build it step by step.
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Key takeaways
In Part 1 you produce text yourself: a personal email (around 80 words) – for example to a friend. You get a situation and three guide points, all of which you must cover.
Decisive: you address all guide points, you start with a greeting and end with a sign-off, and you write privately and understandably. Connect your sentences with “weil”, “deshalb”, “und”, “aber”.
The most common losses of marks: a guide point is missing, the register is wrong (too formal) or greeting and sign-off are missing. Whoever covers all points and writes privately writes confidently and completely.
Read the situation and the guide points carefully.
Start with a private greeting (“Hallo …” / “Liebe/r …”).
Write one to two sentences for each guide point.
Connect your sentences with “weil”, “deshalb”, “und”, “aber”.
End with a private sign-off (“Viele Grüße”).
Check at the end: all guide points, greeting, sign-off, private register?
A short example in the same format: the task and a model answer that covers all guide points.
Deine Freundin Sophie zieht am Wochenende um und hat dich um Hilfe gebeten. Schreibe eine Antwort (~80 Wörter). Leitpunkte: (1) Sag zu, dass du hilfst. (2) Frage, wann genau du kommen sollst. (3) Schlage vor, dass ihr danach zusammen esst.
Model answer:
Why? The email covers all three guide points: agreeing (1), asking about the time (2), suggesting food (3). It has a private greeting and a sign-off, is informal throughout and connects the sentences – exactly what Part 1 expects.
Du antwortest einer Freundin, die dich gefragt hat, ob du ihr beim Umzug hilfst.
Which greeting and sign-off fit?
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All three points must appear. Tick them off one by one after writing.
To friends you write “du” and “Hallo”, not “Sie” and “Sehr geehrte …”.
An email needs a greeting at the start and a sign-off at the end.
Don’t just string short sentences together. Link them with “weil”, “deshalb”, “aber”.
Around 80 words. Cover all guide points with one to two sentences each, plus greeting and sign-off.
In Part 1 you write to friends or family – so “du” and “Hallo”. The register must be consistently private.
Yes. Each missing guide point costs marks. Tick off each point one by one after writing.
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