telc B1 Language Elements

A text with gaps and three options per gap. Common targets: verb forms and reflexives, prepositions, connectives, and articles.

Strategy: read the whole sentence before looking at options. For each option, check both grammar and meaning.

A second, usually different text with a word list. Each word fits exactly one gap; some words from the list fit none.

Strategy: solve the unambiguous gaps first (where only one word is grammatical), cross them off, then work through the harder gaps.

Prepositions with dative or accusative (in, an, auf), connectives that change word order (deshalb, trotzdem, weil), and fixed phrases (sich freuen auf, warten auf).

Train these areas systematically, not only via exam-style items — 15 minutes a day of grammar drills goes a long way.