Exam Preparation: Reading and Use of English (Englisch Klasse 10)

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Get ready for our test! Today you work with your STARK book (Prüfungsvorbereitung). Reading and Use of English are both part of our test – so let’s practise them step by step.

How many points can you get?

📖 30points for Reading

🔧 19points for Use of English

That is a lot of points – good practice really pays off!

Task 1 · Reading

Read page 26 carefully: typical reading tasks – especially true / false / not in the text.
Do the reading tasks on pages 32 to 36. Start on page 32 and work through to page 36.
Check your answers with the solution book (Lösungsheft). Count your mistakes.
Mark your mistakes in colour – e.g. with a red or green pen. Don’t use Tipp-Ex or rub them out: you want to see what was difficult!

✅ True / ❌ False / ❓ Not in the text – how to decide:

True: the text says the same – maybe with other words.
False: the text says the opposite or something different.
Not in the text: the text says nothing about it – don’t guess!

Task 2 · Use of English

Use of English is also part of our test. Here is how you practise:

Read pages 58 to 62: here you find the task types that can come up in the test.
Do the practice tasks on basic knowledge (Grundwissen): start with pages 63, 64, 65, 66 and 67. (The basic-knowledge tasks go on after page 67 – but start with these pages and check them first.)
Then check pages 63–67 with the solution book and count your mistakes.
Mark your mistakes in colour – no Tipp-Ex!

Close your gaps – now is the moment!

🔴 Mark your problem areas. When a task (or a basic-knowledge topic) is really difficult for you, put a big red dot 🔴 or an exclamation mark ❗ next to it in your book. Then you know: “Here I have a gap – I must practise this again.”

⏰ Now is the moment to close your gaps – not the night before the test! Every gap you close now means more points later.

💻 Practise online – as often as you like

📘 STARK online exercises: There are online exercises for your STARK exam book. Look in your book for how to get to them.
🏫 Our online classroom: For grammar topics you can always use the old tasks in our online classroom – as often as you want, e.g. Active and Passive · Modal Verbs · Tenses Review · Use of English (word families, keyword transformation, tricky words).

🤔 Stuck in a task? Try this:

📖 Read the task again. What exactly do you have to do? Look at the example – it shows you how.
🔎 Look at the words around the gap. What comes before and after it? Do you need a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb?
⏱️ Look for signal words like yesterday, since, already, next week – they tell you the tense.
❌ Cross out answers that are clearly wrong. Then choose from the rest.
⏭️ Don’t get stuck: mark the task, go on – and come back to it at the end.
✍️ Never leave a gap empty in the test – a good guess can still get a point.
💡 After checking with the solution book: find out why your answer was wrong. Look up the rule and try a similar task.

My results

How did it go?

Example: Reading pp. 32–36: 6 mistakes – true/false/not in the text was difficult. Use of English pp. 63–67: 4 mistakes – I need to practise word families.