Le Goethe B1 en 2027 : format de l'examen, seuil de réussite et vocabulaire
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- 0:00Goethe B1 is the German certificate that many people take for citizenship, a settlement permit, training or work.
- 0:09It has four separate modules, and you can sit them together or one at a time.
- 0:15In five minutes you will see each module, what it takes to pass, how to find a date, and the words that decide your marks.
- 0:23There are four modules: three written ones, about two hours and forty-five minutes in all, and fifteen minutes of speaking.
- 0:32Reading is sixty-five minutes: five parts and thirty items, from a blog post to a set of rules.
- 0:39Listening is about forty minutes: four parts and thirty items, from announcements to a radio discussion.
- 0:46Writing is sixty minutes for three texts: an informal e-mail and a forum post of about eighty words each, and a formal e-mail of about forty.
- 0:57Speaking is about fifteen minutes in pairs, after fifteen minutes to prepare: you plan something together, present a topic and respond to your partner.
- 1:07Each module is marked out of one hundred, and the pass mark is sixty in each.
- 1:12The modules are never added together: a strong reading score cannot rescue a weak writing score.
- 1:19In writing, a task with under half the asked-for words, or off the topic, scores zero, so count your words.
- 1:28If you miss one module, you resit only that module, as many times as you like, and combine the certificates.
- 1:35Before you split it, check that your office accepts modules from different dates.
- 1:41There is no national calendar: each institute and licensed exam centre sets its own dates, fees and deadline.
- 1:49Deadlines vary too: in Germany some institutes take bookings until a few days before, while abroad registration may open on only a few set days.
- 2:00So look up your centre on the official exam site, note its deadline, and start on the words about four months before.
- 2:07Fees are local too: at the last check, two hundred fifty-nine euros at the institutes in Germany and seven hundred seventy zloty in Warsaw.
- 2:18Results in Germany take up to two weeks; the certificate never expires, but many offices want one under two years old.
- 2:27There is no vocabulary module.
- 2:30Vocabulary is tested in all four, and in two ways.
- 2:34Reading and listening reward breadth: everyday topics like housing, work, health, offices, travel and the media.
- 2:44The official B1 word list has about two thousand four hundred entries that you should at least understand.
- 2:51Writing and speaking reward something narrower, and easier to learn: connectors, the phrases each task expects, fixed word combinations, and the formal and informal you.
- 3:04Vocabulary has its own marks in writing and in speaking, so points are easiest to lose here, and to win back.
- 3:12Here are four cards from our kit, with the trap each one hides.
- 3:17A connector for the informal e-mail.
- 3:25It takes the first place, so the verb comes straight after it, before the subject.
- 3:31The opening of the short formal e-mail.
- 3:39Its ending follows the reader: one form for a man, another for a woman.
- 3:45A phrase for agreeing while you plan together.
- 3:51German uses to have here, never to be, as English does.
- 3:55And one word combination.
- 4:00German meets a decision; making one is copied from English, and it costs points.
- 4:06So how many words do you need for B1?
- 4:10We counted the official word lists from A1 to B1: about three thousand two hundred words.
- 4:17Our German B1 kit holds three thousand eight hundred eighty-one cards: about three thousand three hundred topic words, plus connectors, phrases and grammar.
- 4:28If you started from zero with four months to go, that would be thirty-seven new cards a day, about thirty minutes.
- 4:36Almost nobody starts from zero.
- 4:39The free check tells you how many of these words you already know, and the plan shrinks to the ones you do not.
- 4:46Check your B1 words for free: the link is below.
- 4:50If it shows gaps, the full kit has every card with audio, the phrases for each task, and a plan that ends before your exam.
- 4:58Good luck with your exam.
Un guide vidéo de cinq minutes sur le Goethe-Zertifikat B1 : les quatre modules et leur durée, le seuil de 60 points dans chaque module, comment trouver une date, un tarif et une date limite d'inscription dans votre centre d'examen, et les mots qui décident de la note à l'écrit et à l'oral.