ABI LF - Non-fiction route Generalprobe
ABI LF - Non-fiction route Generalprobe

Fresh LF mock route: Work through a new non-fiction task sequence with an aspect-related summary, text-and-visual analysis and a final choice between argumentative response and target-text writing. The route is designed for Englisch als fortgeführte Fremdsprache, Leistungsfach, Kursstufe Baden-Württemberg.
Mini-Beschreibung: Du bearbeitest eine neue nicht-literarische Prüfungsroute auf Leistungsfachniveau. English comes first: infer from context, use word formation and an English explanation, consult a dictionary, and use German help only as a last resort.
Einleitung
This aiMOOC is a Generalprobe, not a replacement essay. You read, listen, analyze, speak and write independently. The practice material below is original and the dataset is explicitly fictional. No complete mandatory texts and no unauthorized film clips are reproduced.
Official check – Abitur 2027, checked 3 October 2026: The current Baden-Württemberg Facherlass names On the Move: Migration and Cross-Cultural Encounters as the 2027 focus and also requires the USA and UK topic fields stated in the decree. In the Leistungsfach written examination, the official working time is about 255 minutes: about 30 minutes listening, a 15-minute break, then 225 minutes writing including selection time. For Part II, students choose between a literary and a non-literary task; the writing route includes an aspect-related summary, analysis and a final choice between a personal response and a creative/target-text task. Non-fiction analysis can include discontinuous material such as images, cartoons, posters, diagrams or tables. Permitted target-text types named in the decree include article, blog entry, email, letter, letter to the editor and speech manuscript. The revised IQB operator set applies from examination year 2027.
Official Facherlass Abitur 2027, Baden-Württemberg
IQB accompanying documents and operator set from examination year 2027
Written exam ≠ Kommunikationsprüfung: This course simulates the non-fiction route of the written examination. The Kommunikationsprüfung is a separate oral component governed by the current assessment and correction rules. Use the speaking section below as skill training, but follow your school’s current official format for the actual oral examination.
I-can-Ziele
- I can summarize a complex non-fiction text selectively, accurately and without drifting into analysis.
- I can analyze structure, language and communicative strategies and link evidence to function.
- I can read visuals critically instead of merely describing numbers or design.
- I can argue with a clear line of reasoning, counterargument and material-based evidence.
- I can write for a target audience with an appropriate purpose, register and text type.
- I can self-correct content, evidence, language, register and source use before submission.
Working rules: sources, privacy and AI
Use AI, if your teacher allows it, only as a transparent checking aid: verify claims and sources, mark substantial AI assistance according to your course rules and never submit generated text as your own exam performance. Do not upload exam materials, personal recordings or classmates’ work to external AI services without permission. Audio recording is voluntary and should remain private unless everyone involved has explicitly agreed. The names, article and survey data in this aiMOOC are fictional.
Medien-Einstieg

Before reading, spend two minutes on this question: What makes a non-fiction source convincing without making it automatically trustworthy? Separate persuasiveness from reliability.
Listening / Viewing: evidence check

Listen for three distinctions: a source can be relevant but weak, evidence can be accurate but insufficient, and a claim can sound plausible without being supported. After viewing, note one criterion you will apply to the mock article and one criterion you will apply to the visual.
Vorwissen
Without notes, explain the difference between summarize, analyze and evaluate. Then name one feature you would check in a chart before using it as evidence. If you cannot explain the difference in English, use your dictionary before switching to German.
Kontextwortschatz
| Word or phrase | Context clue | Word formation | English explanation | Dictionary check | Deutsche Nothilfe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| belonging | “feeling at home with people and place” | belong → belonging | a sense of being accepted and connected | check noun uses and collocations | Zugehörigkeitsgefühl |
| newcomer | “someone who has recently arrived” | new + comer | a person who is new to a place or group | check neutral register | neu angekommene Person |
| recurring | “happening again and again” | recur → recurring | repeated at intervals | note spelling and stress | wiederkehrend |
| rootedness | “a stable sense of connection” | root → rooted → rootedness | feeling firmly connected to a place or community | compare root and route | Verwurzelung |
| affiliation | “connection with a group” | affiliate → affiliation | a formal or emotional association with others | check typical prepositions | Zugehörigkeit oder Verbindung |
| accessible | “easy to reach or understand” | access → accessible → accessibility | available and usable without unnecessary barriers | check pronunciation | zugänglich |
| marginalize | “push to the edge of participation” | margin → marginal → marginalize | treat a person or group as less central or less included | check British spelling marginalise | ausgrenzen |
| trade-off | “a gain in one area with a cost in another” | trade + off | a compromise between competing advantages | check hyphenation | Zielkonflikt |
Strategy order: context → word family → English definition → dictionary → German help.
Generalprobe: Fresh non-fiction route
All material in this section is original teaching material. The source, author and dataset are fictional.
Source A: Opinion article
Morgan Reed: “Belonging Is Built in Small Repetitions”
Fictional source: Civic Futures Magazine, 2027
[1] Moving house is measured in boxes. Belonging is measured in repetitions. A new route to school becomes familiar only after you have walked it often enough to stop checking the map; a name in your phone becomes a friendship only after the second, fifth and fifteenth exchange. This matters when we discuss mobility, migration and cross-cultural encounters, because “welcome” is often treated as a single event rather than a process.
[2] Institutions are good at beginnings. Schools hold orientation days, cities publish welcome brochures and clubs organize open evenings. These gestures can be useful, but they tend to concentrate support at the exact moment when newcomers have the least context for understanding it. A packed folder on day one may answer practical questions; it rarely creates the confidence to ask a difficult question on day forty.
[3] The alternative is not a larger welcome event. It is a pattern of small, repeated points of contact: a weekly mixed-interest club, a reliable peer contact, a library hour where questions are expected, a noticeboard that is understandable without insider knowledge. Such routines are almost boring, and that is precisely their strength. They lower the social cost of joining in. You do not have to announce that you need help; you simply return.
[4] Digital ties complicate this picture in a productive way. Newcomers do not arrive as blank pages. They may remain closely connected to friends, languages and communities elsewhere. Those connections are sometimes described as obstacles to “integration”, but that assumption is too simple. A person can maintain old affiliations while developing new ones. The real question is not whether people should leave one identity behind. It is whether local institutions create enough room for several identities to be lived without constant explanation.
[5] Of course, belonging cannot be scheduled like a lesson. A recurring club can become a closed circle; a peer scheme can feel artificial; a multilingual sign can be symbolic rather than useful. Critics are right to distrust programmes that count participation while ignoring experience. That is why repeated contact must be paired with feedback: Who returns? Who stops coming? Who speaks? Who is present but never addressed? Numbers can reveal patterns, but they cannot answer those questions on their own.
[6] The point, then, is modest. Do less theatre at the door and more maintenance in the hallway. Make the next conversation easier to enter. Make information easier to find twice, not just once. Make belonging possible without demanding sameness. Home is not a finish line that newcomers cross; it is a relationship built through ordinary chances to return.
Source B: Fictional visual
Fictional classroom survey: 240 people aged 16–20 who had moved to a new city within the previous 24 months. Multiple answers possible. The sample is not representative and the figures are not empirical research.
| Factor respondents said helped them feel at home | Share selecting the factor | Visual bar |
|---|---|---|
| One reliable local contact | 71% | ██████████████ |
| A regular shared activity | 63% | █████████████ |
| Feeling understood at school or work | 58% | ████████████ |
| Digital contact with people from the previous home | 51% | ██████████ |
| Local information in accessible language | 46% | █████████ |
| Knowing local landmarks and routes | 29% | ██████ |
Critical reading before analysis: The chart can illustrate a pattern inside this fictional sample, but it cannot prove causation or represent all young movers. Multiple answers mean the percentages need not add to 100.
Exam route and suggested practice timing
The official 2027 writing block is 225 minutes including selection time. The following split is a practice suggestion, not an official weighting.
| Phase | Suggested time | Product |
|---|---|---|
| Read, select, plan | 10 min | task map and evidence bank |
| Part II.1 | 35 min | aspect-related summary |
| Part II.2 | 75 min | text-and-visual analysis |
| Part II.3 | 90 min | argumentative response or target text |
| Final check | 15 min | corrected final version |
Part II.1 – Aspect-related summary
Task: Summarize Reed’s argument about how a sense of belonging can develop after a move. Focus on the contrast between one-off welcome measures and recurring forms of contact.
Do not analyze stylistic devices here. Use your own words, group related ideas and keep examples only when they clarify the argument. A suggested practice range is 150–190 words; this is a training aid, not an official word limit.
Quick check: Can every sentence be traced to the source? Is the focus selective? Have you removed evaluation and personal opinion?
Part II.2 – Text and visual analysis
Task: Analyze how Reed tries to persuade readers that recurring social routines can support belonging. Focus on structure, use of language and communicative strategies. Also analyze the function of Source B in relation to the article and evaluate its limits as evidence.
Use an evidence–technique–function chain. Naming a rhetorical device without explaining what it does is not analysis.

Anscombe’s quartet is a useful reminder that similar summary statistics can hide very different patterns. Visual interpretation therefore requires you to inspect design and distribution, not only headline numbers.
For Source B, consider selection of categories, ordering, scale, missing information, representativeness, causality and the relationship between caption and claim.
Part II.3 – Choose one writing task
Option A – Argumentative response: Assess the claim that schools and local institutions should prioritize recurring opportunities for contact over one-off welcome events when supporting people who have moved to a new place. Use Sources A and B as a starting point and connect your reasoning to the broader theme of mobility, identity and belonging.
Option B – Target text: You are speaking at an international youth conference on the topic “Belonging after a move”. Write the manuscript of a speech in which you respond to Reed’s main idea, use the fictional survey critically and propose two principles for designing inclusive recurring activities. Address an international audience directly and use an appropriate register.

Do not copy a model essay. Build your own thesis, select evidence, acknowledge a reasonable counterposition and make the conclusion answer the exact task.
Analyse-Werkstatt
Structure: Track the movement from hook → problem → alternative → complication → counterargument → qualified conclusion.
Language: Look for contrast, parallelism, metaphor, inclusive pronouns, evaluative vocabulary and sentence rhythm. Explain how each choice shapes the reader’s interpretation.
Communicative strategies: Ask how the writer anticipates objections, uses examples, narrows claims, addresses readers and balances certainty with qualification.
Useful sentence frames: “By opening with …, the writer frames …”; “The shift from … to … changes the focus from … to …”; “The concession in paragraph … strengthens the argument because …”; “The visual appears to support …, yet its evidential value is limited by …”.
Reading

Read in three passes: first for the central claim, second for paragraph function, third for evidence and language. Mark only what you can later explain. A page full of highlighting is not automatically a useful analysis plan.
Speaking

The Kommunikationsprüfung tests oral interaction and is separate from this written mock route. For this training, work with a partner or speak privately to yourself.
Monologue micro-task: Give a 90-second explanation of the strongest and weakest evidence in Sources A and B.
Dialogue micro-task: Discuss whether repeated routines can create belonging without becoming pressure to conform. Build on, challenge and qualify each other’s points instead of delivering two parallel mini-speeches.
Record yourself only if you want to; keep the recording private unless all participants consent.
Optional mediation transfer
Mediation is a course skill and, in the Leistungsfach qualification phase, must be assessed separately; it is not a component of this 2027 written Generalprobe route.
German source, fictional school notice: “Unsere Schule startet für neu zugezogene Schülerinnen und Schüler ein freiwilliges wöchentliches Begegnungsangebot. Es gibt keine Anmeldung, keine Anwesenheitspflicht und keine Veröffentlichung von Namen oder Fotos. Jede Woche ist eine andere AG Gastgeberin. Rückmeldungen werden anonym gesammelt und nach sechs Wochen ausgewertet.”
Task: An English-speaking exchange student asks what the new programme is and whether participation is compulsory. Write a short, situation-appropriate email conveying only the relevant information. Do not translate sentence by sentence.
Hilfen und Differenzierung
| Area | Support | Core LF | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | label claim, example, counterargument | track paragraph function and argument | identify qualification, assumptions and tensions |
| Vocabulary | context and word family first | English dictionary and collocations | vary register and precise academic verbs |
| Summary | use a three-point content map | synthesize by aspect | compress without flattening nuance |
| Analysis | feature + quotation fragment + function | evidence–technique–function chain | compare effects and discuss limits of interpretation |
| Visual | describe pattern and source note | analyze design and evidential function | question sampling, causality and framing |
| Writing | thesis + two reasons + counterpoint | differentiated, material-based argument | integrate tensions, implications and audience strategy |
Language-help order: English clue → morphology → visualization → English explanation → dictionary → German help.
Feedback und Fehleranalyse
Use six correction codes instead of rewriting the whole text for someone else: C = content focus, E = evidence, F = function/explanation, L = language accuracy, R = register, V = visual reasoning.
After feedback, repair one paragraph yourself:
- underline the sentence that answers the task;
- box the evidence;
- circle the analytical verb;
- add the missing “so what?” explanation;
- check one recurring language error with a dictionary or grammar reference.
Source and AI check
Before trusting any external claim, ask: Who published it? What is the original evidence? Is the date relevant? Can the claim be verified elsewhere? If AI suggests a source, open the real source and verify that it exists and supports the claim. A fluent answer is not evidence.
Transfer
Take any openly licensed newspaper-style article and one openly licensed chart. Without writing a full essay, produce a one-page planning sheet containing: central claim, three paragraph functions, two language features with effects, one limitation of the visual, one counterargument and one target-text decision. Keep the source links with your notes.
Abi-Check
Before a full mock, confirm the current official year-specific rules with your teacher and the Facherlass. For the 2027 Leistungsfach, this training matches the published non-fiction writing route: aspect-related summary, analysis with named aspects and possible visual material, followed by a choice between personal response and target-text writing. The written exam also contains a separate listening part. The Kommunikationsprüfung remains a separate oral component.
Final self-check: Did I answer the operator? Did I separate summary from analysis? Did I explain effects rather than list devices? Did I treat the visual as evidence with limits? Did I use the required target-text register? Did I proofread recurring errors?
Folgekurs
Continue with Englisch Abitur, Summary Englisch, Textanalyse Englisch, Argumentative Writing, Visual Analysis, Listening Comprehension, Kommunikationsprüfung Englisch and Mediation Englisch.
Interaktive Aufgaben
Quiz: Teste Dein Wissen
Which description best matches an aspect-related summary? (A concise, selective account focused on the aspect named in the task) (!A list of rhetorical devices with quotations) (!A personal evaluation of the writer’s position) (!A translation of each paragraph into simpler English)
What should a strong non-fiction analysis connect? (Evidence, technique and function) (!Topic, biography and plot) (!Vocabulary, translation and opinion) (!Headline, date and word count only)
What is the best first step when an unfamiliar word appears? (Use context and word formation to infer meaning) (!Translate the whole sentence into German immediately) (!Ignore the word in every case) (!Ask an AI system to rewrite the paragraph)
Why must Source B be treated cautiously? (It is fictional, non-representative and cannot prove causation) (!Its percentages must add to exactly one hundred) (!Any bar chart is automatically unreliable) (!Visual evidence never belongs in text analysis)
Which feature belongs to visual analysis? (Checking scale, framing and missing information) (!Counting only the longest words) (!Replacing the visual with a translation) (!Ignoring the source note)
What is the main purpose of a counterargument in strong argumentative writing? (To engage with a reasonable opposing position and refine the thesis) (!To avoid taking any position) (!To repeat the introduction) (!To replace evidence with opinion)
Which target text is explicitly suitable for a spoken conference contribution? (A speech manuscript) (!A private diary entry) (!A laboratory protocol) (!A dictionary definition)
How should the Kommunikationsprüfung be understood in this aiMOOC? (As a separate oral component from the written non-fiction route) (!As another name for the summary task) (!As the visual-analysis paragraph) (!As an optional grammar worksheet)
What makes evidence useful in an analysis paragraph? (It is explained in relation to the writer’s purpose and the task) (!It is copied in the longest possible quotation) (!It contains a difficult word) (!It agrees with the student’s opinion)
What is the safest academic use of AI during preparation? (Verify claims and sources and follow the course rules on disclosure) (!Submit generated paragraphs as independent exam work) (!Upload classmates’ recordings without asking) (!Assume fluent answers are automatically correct)
Memory
| Aspect-related summary | Selective account of task-relevant content |
| Communicative strategy | Method used to position or influence an audience |
| Register | Language choices suited to situation and readership |
| Evidence-function chain | Link between textual proof and explained effect |
| Discontinuous text | Visual material such as a chart or poster |
| Target text | Product shaped by audience purpose and text type |
Drag and Drop
| Ordne die richtigen Begriffe zu. | Thema |
|---|---|
| Claim | Writer’s central position |
| Concession | Acknowledgement of a reasonable opposing point |
| Register | Language suited to audience and situation |
| Causality | Claim that one factor produces another |
| Representativeness | Extent to which a sample can stand for a wider population |
Kreuzworträtsel
| Summary | Which task condenses relevant source content without personal evaluation? |
| Register | What term names language suited to audience and situation? |
| Evidence | What supports an analytical or argumentative claim? |
| Audience | Who is a target text designed to reach? |
| Structure | What describes the organization of an argument? |
| Belonging | What central concept describes feeling accepted and connected? |
LearningApps
Lückentext
Offene Aufgaben
Leicht
- Evidence Hunt: Mark one claim, one example and one concession in Source A and explain each in one English sentence.
- Visual Caption: Write a two-sentence caption for Source B that states the strongest visible pattern and one limitation.
- Private Speaking Note: Record or simply rehearse a voluntary 60-second explanation of why persuasive language is not the same as reliable evidence; do not upload it.
- Word Family Map: Create a small word-formation map for belong, access, affiliate and recur and add one original sentence for each family.
Standard
- Summary Redesign: Turn the six article paragraphs into a four-box content map, then write a new aspect-related summary without looking at your first version.
- Analysis Paragraph Lab: Write one paragraph that links a quotation fragment, a linguistic choice and its communicative function; revise it after peer feedback.
- Visual Audit: Redesign Source B so that its limitations are more visible, for example by adding sample notes, clearer labels and a warning against causal interpretation.
- Target Audience Switch: Plan the same message once as a letter to the editor and once as a speech manuscript; compare register, opening, evidence and call to action.
Schwer
- Counterargument Matrix: Develop three plausible objections to Reed’s proposal, classify which are strongest and write a differentiated rebuttal to each.
- Material Synthesis: Connect Source A and Source B with one idea from the 2027 theme On the Move without quoting or reproducing any mandatory text.
- Source Verification Project: Find an openly accessible real-world source on belonging or mobility, verify publisher, date and evidence, and contrast its evidential strength with the fictional survey.
- Mock Conference: In a small group, prepare a five-minute evidence-based discussion on belonging and recurring routines; assign moderator, proponent and critical reviewer roles and keep any recording private.


Lernkontrolle
- Transfer Summary: Given a new non-fiction article, formulate the aspect that a selective summary should cover and justify what information you would omit.
- Functional Analysis: Explain how the same rhetorical question could have different effects in an editorial, a school speech and a formal email.
- Visual Reliability: Compare two hypothetical charts with the same percentages but different scales and sample notes; explain which interpretations are warranted and which are not.
- Argument Design: Build a thesis, counterargument, rebuttal and conclusion for a new mobility-related question and show where source evidence would enter.
- Target-Text Decision: Explain how audience, purpose and register would change if the final task asked for a blog entry instead of a speech manuscript.
- Error Diagnosis: Revise a paragraph that contains feature spotting, an unsupported claim and informal register; annotate why each change improves the response.
Lernnachweis
For a successful Lernnachweis, demonstrate that you can:
- distinguish summary, analysis and evaluation reliably;
- analyze non-fiction structure, language and communicative strategies with evidence;
- integrate a visual while discussing its limitations;
- produce a coherent argument with counterposition and material reference;
- adapt language to audience, purpose and target-text type;
- use dictionaries and language support strategically;
- verify external and AI-assisted claims and respect privacy and authorship rules;
- reflect on recurring errors and revise independently.
OERs zum Thema
Facherlass Abitur 2027 – official Baden-Württemberg source
IQB – accompanying documents for the Abitur task pools
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