Freundschaft: Goethe B1 Schreiben Example
Friendship is one of those topics that keeps coming back in the Goethe B1 Schreiben Teil 2 exam, and for good reason: examiners want to see whether you can react naturally to someone else’s opinion, agree or disagree politely, and back up your view with a personal example. It sounds simple in your native language, but under exam pressure, finding the right words in German is a different story.
In this task, you’re asked to respond to Margarethe, who shares her thoughts on friendship. This kind of prompt tests more than vocabulary — it checks whether you can structure a short, coherent text that reacts, argues, and closes naturally, all within a few sentences.
Working through real, recurring exam themes like this one is one of the most efficient ways to prepare. You start recognizing the patterns examiners look for, and you build a mental toolkit of phrases you can reuse, whatever the topic on exam day turns out to be.
Here’s the original task and a model answer you can study before writing your own version.
The Task (Teil 2): In the real exam, you read a short forum-style opinion from Margarethe and must react to it in writing — agreeing, disagreeing, or nuancing your view, with reasons.
Model Answer (reacting, disagreeing with Margarethe):
Das Thema „Freundschaft” finde ich sehr interessant, deswegen möchte ich meine Meinung dazu äußern. Ich bin nicht derselben Meinung wie Margarethe, dass man ohne Freunde leben kann. Zwar leben wir nicht dank Freunden, aber sie sind ein wichtiger Teil der Freude in unserem Leben und immer da, wenn wir Probleme haben. Man könnte zwar auch in sozialen Netzwerken Freunde finden, aber diese sind nicht wirklich da, wenn wir sie brauchen. Deswegen denke ich, dass man immer offen für Freundschaften sein sollte, auch wenn das manchmal zu Problemen führt.
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