The Art of Writing

German Letters & Emails for B1

A2–B1 · Goethe & telc writing

Every letter and email you will ever need to write in German, to a friend or to an office, follows a small number of fixed patterns. This book teaches those patterns the way maths is best taught, through worked examples.

The heart of every unit is a pair of model answers to the same exam-style task. Musterlösung A is simple, correct A2 to B1 German, the letter you can already almost write. Musterlösung B says the same things at full B1 level, with the connectors that lift it printed in orange. The distance between A and B is exactly the distance to the next level, and a point-by-point commentary names what changed and why it earns marks.

Part one covers personal messages to friends, part two the formal letters of German life such as appointments, complaints and cancellations, and part three trains the exact writing formats of the Goethe-Zertifikat B1 and telc Deutsch B1 exams, with timing strategy. Every unit ends with a fresh task of your own, and a full model answer for each waits at the back.

Inside the book

• Tasks written exactly the way the Goethe and telc exams write theirs
• Two model answers per task, at A2 level and at full B1 level
• Connectors highlighted, with a point-by-point commentary on the difference
• Natural English renderings of every model letter
• Redemittel worth memorising for each letter type
• Foundation units on letter anatomy and connectors, plus exam timing strategy

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