Abitur NRW Englisch 2025 · LK · Question (HV)

Task 1: Question time [6 BE]

Preparation time: 30 seconds

You will hear six statements by Members of Parliament about Boris Johnson, who was British Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022.

Choose from the list (A-G) which heading best applies to which speaker (1-6). For each speaker, there is only one correct answer. There is one more heading than you need.

Headings

Speaker

Now listen to the recording again.

Task 2: Blacks in the United States [11 BE]

Preparation time: 2 minutes

You will hear a radio report from 2022 about Blacks and the African diaspora in the United States.

While listening, tick (✓) the correct answer (a, b, or c). There is only one correct answer.

Now think of the text as a whole:

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Now listen to the recording again.

Task 3: “Unaccustomed Earth”

Preparation time: 1 minute

You will hear an excerpt from Jhumpa Lahiri's short story “Unaccustomed Earth” in which the narrator describes Pranab Kaku's visits to her mother in an immigrant household in the US.

While listening, answer the questions. You need not write complete sentences. Unless otherwise specified, name one aspect.

1.

What discrepancy surprises the narrator about Pranab Kaku?

2.

Before knowing Pranab Kaku, how did the narrator’s mother feel in her apartment?

3.

How does the narrator feel about Pranab Kaku’s visits?

4.

What is an important condition for Pranab Kaku’s visits?

5.

How do the mother’s political views differ from her husband’s?

6.

How did the narrator’s father get his parents to accept his emigration?

7.

What does the narrator assume about her father’s reaction to Pranab Kaku’s visits?

8.

What does the narrator realise years later?