A2 — THE EXPANSION
The A2 speaking topics: what you'll be asked, rehearsed
The themes the Goethe A2 speaking part draws from — home, work, travel, health — with the opinion-and-reason template that earns the points.
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Editorial desk — reviewed against Goethe A1–A2 frameworks
The A2 speaking part is not a conversation exam — it is a rehearsal exam. The topics circle the same small set of everyday domains, and the scoring rewards exactly two things: sustained turns and opinions with reasons. Rehearse the domains with the template below and the exam becomes a formality.
The domains that recur
- Home & living — your flat, your city, moving, neighbors. (Ich wohne gern hier, weil…)
- Work & daily routine — your job, a typical day, changing jobs. (Perfect tense territory: haben/sein drill)
- Travel & holidays — a trip you took, your ideal vacation, planning one. (Past narrative + future plans)
- Health & appointments — being ill, the doctor, making/missing appointments.
- Free time & media — hobbies, music, film, what you watch and why.
- Learning German itself — why, how, what's hard. The meta-topic examiners love, and you're living it.
The template that earns the points
- 01
Opinion first, loudly
Ich finde das wichtig / Ich möchte gern… / Ich habe Lust auf… — a clear stance sentence opens every turn. No stance, nothing to sustain.
- 02
Reason with weil — every time
…, weil es günstiger ist / weil ich das schon lange machen will. The weil-clause is the single highest-value construction on the A2 exam: it proves subordinate word order and gives your turn length.
- 03
One personal example
A one-sentence past-tense example (Letzten Monat war ich in Berlin…) converts the topic from generic to yours — examiners score authenticity even on rehearsed material.
- 04
Return a question
In the partner exchange, end with a question (Und du? Wie ist das bei dir?). The exam is partly an interaction test; question-askers control the interaction.
Can I pass A2 speaking with rehearsed answers alone?
The self-introduction and prepared topics, largely yes — they are rehearsed by design. The partner exchange punishes pure scripts (it needs real questions and reactions), which is why the template's return-a-question step matters. Rehearsed scaffolding + living connectors is exactly what A2 speaking rewards.
What topics come up in the Goethe A2 speaking exam?
A small recurring set of everyday domains: home and living, work and daily routine, travel and holidays, health and appointments, free time and media, and learning German itself. The exam rotates within these — which is why six domains rehearsed at two minutes each, out loud and recorded, is the entire preparation. The domain list with the opinion template covers them all.
How do I give an opinion in German at A2?
The template: stance sentence, weil-clause, personal example, return question. Ich finde das gut, weil es günstiger ist. Letzten Monat war ich in Berlin und… Und du? The weil-clause is the highest-value construction on the exam — it proves subordinate word order and gives your turn length. Opinions without reasons score like small talk; the reason is what the exam is buying.