This oral test emphasizes Kontexte 15-17, though all previous language is "fair game". In Part 1 you will read aloud with the examiner a dialog from a recent Kontext. In Part 2 you will talk about someone else. In Part 3 you will do in German a role-play situation that you will have before you in English. Instructors are allowed to skip Parts 2 or 3 if they conclude that they already have enough information to judge the proficiency.

Here is the Scoring Guide for the test.

Study for Part 1 the way you (should) have been studying all along: Listen to the dialogs, say them, read them, and check their vocabulary. One way to study for Part 2 is to take a given Kontext and talk about what you would do in it. ("I'm eating the chocolate cake and drinking a cup of tea.") The describe someone else - a friend or family member, perhaps - who does the same or similar things. ("Adam is eating cherry pie and drinking coffee with milk and sugar.") One way to study for Part 3 (besides practicing your dialogs) is to work with the "Situations" in the Wie, bitte? software (menu button "Context Activities: Situations"), especially those in the "advanced" and "challenge categories."

It is to your advantage to speak readily and lengthily, rather than "clamming up" in the hope of reducing the number of errors you make. We are not counting errors; we are measuring levels of performance.

A note about language tests: Just as you keep using words and structures you may have learned years ago (if you even remember when you learned them), the language you are learning now will be tested cumulatively. That is, a later test may call on knowledge and skills you acquired earlier in the course, all the way back to the first term. If you have continuing weaknesses in earlier material, that will affect your performance and thus your grade on later tests. Still, each test will emphasize recent material, and to get a 5 or 6 on the test you will have to have good (not necessarily perfect!) command of that material.