B. Use of language - Lösung

21 pts

1. Find the opposites in the text. 2 pts
a) more crowded(lines 11-17)    emptier
b) to stop(lines 25-31)    to carry on
2. Find words or expressions in the text that mean more or less the same.3 pts
a) district(line 10)          region / area / neighbourhood
b) remain(line 15)          stay 
c) opportunity(line 39)          possibility / option / chance
3. Explain one of the following words in complete sentences.2 pts
a) local(line 3)
A local school is a school in the same town where teh studends / pupils come from.
b) education(line 9)
"Education" means "lessons" or "classes". 
Education is what you are taught when you go to school.
c) secret(line 16)
A secret is something that is kept away / hidden from other people.
The opposite of "secret" is "known".
4. Vocabulary - Grammar 11 pts
Read the text. Find the suitable forms of the words and write them down.
Annne Frank
Anne Frank is one of the most famous / famous / more famous Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. Her diary is seen as a classic in war literature today.
Anne was born in Frankfurt am Main. The Frank family moved to Am-
sterdam in 1933. This was the same year the Nazis
grew / were growing powerful in Germany. In the Netherlands, Anne was officially seen as a
German until 1941.
By 1942, the Nazis
had become more powerpul than the years before
and the family was afraid of
being arrested so they decided
to hide. They hid in the secret rooms of her father´s office building.
After two years they were found and taken to concentration camps
where Anne and her sister died in 1945.
Her father was the only person of the family
who / that survived. He
found Anne´s diary and helped to print it in 1947. Since then it
has been translated into many languages. It tells the story of her life from
June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944.
a) famous
b) see


c) grow
d) official

e) become
f) be    g) decide



h) ?
i) translate
j) tell     k) live
Adapted from: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne Frank (20.08.2015)