Introduction

Paper GeA1 consists of two parts: Section A, which is a listening comprehension exercise and is sat separately; and Section B, which is a textual comprehension exercise and is what we are concerned with here. Section B falls into three parts: answering questions on the text in German, explaining phrases in the context of the text, and translating five sentences into German. Each of these parts is differently weighted and, for clarity's sake, they are set out on three separate web-pages.

On this page, you will find the text with five underlined phrases and, in the ‘Questions’ section, Questions 2 (a) (i) - (v). Your task is to explain these phrases with complete sentences in German, setting them in the context of the article. The annotations are designed to help you with this task. You can bring up the questions one by one by scrolling down. At the same time, by scrolling down the text you can bring up the section in the text which is relevant for answering the question. But make sure you have read the whole text thoroughly and with the help of the annotations before you start on this task. Hand your answers to your teacher to be marked.

Some Instructions

• The passage for comprehension includes footnotes: click on the footnote number to see more information about it in the right-hand column.
• In the CALL Facility and elsewhere via the PWF, you can use this dictionary or the following one
• Type up your work with a separate program alongside your web browser. Use a word processor or text editor; on a CALL Facility PC WordPad (Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > WordPad) is recommended.
• You can save your work on a floppy disk or send yourself (or your tutor) a copy of your translation by copying and pasting it into an email message. To simplify transmission, save your file as plain text rather than a word processor document: under Save As go for plain text. You may even wish to type your translation directly into an email message.