2021_Border_Listening

Listening Practice: Border (2021 English Abitur)

This practice page covers Tasks 1 and 2 of the 2021 higher-level listening examination. Task 3 is omitted because its audio is unavailable.

Task 1 — Street Trees

You will hear a radio interview about trees in Detroit. Answer briefly. You do not need to write complete sentences. For each question, name one aspect unless otherwise specified.

(0:00-2:05; 2:21-2:52)

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Any two: good for human health; scrub pollution from the air; benefit biodiversity; provide habitat for wildlife; reduce stress; linked to reduced crime.
They reduce heart-related conditions or improve health (as if people became one and a half years younger).
Detroit offered free trees, but residents did not want them.
To get more residents to accept free trees.
They worried that trees would create extra work or a burden of care.
Involve residents more in decision-making, or avoid planting trees with unwanted features such as size, flowers, fruit or sap.

Task 2 — Border

You will hear a radio report about life on the Mexican-American border between El Paso and Juarez. Choose one answer for each question.

(an introductory 7-second segment of the test audio is missing from the specified source; 0:04–0:22; 0:34–1:24; 1:31–2:21; 2:30–3:07)

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1 c · 2 c · 3 d · 4 b · 5 d · 6 a

Source and official marking guidance: IQB English examination task, 2021 — Border (PDF). The questions are reproduced in English from Tasks 1 and 2. Task 3 is omitted because its audio was not available.