Leserbrief zur Stadtplanung
“Die Verfasserin kritisierte, dass neue Radwege oft erst dann gebaut würden, wenn Protestschreiben die politisch Verantwortlichen erreichten.
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Leserbrief zur Stadtplanung
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- Topic
- Leserbrief zur Stadtplanung
- Learning goal
- Understand and discuss the main events and details in “Leserbrief zur Stadtplanung”
- Grammar focus
- B2 sentence patterns · contextual vocabulary
- Length
- 45 words
- Reading time
- 0.4 min
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English translation▾
The author criticized the fact that new cycle lanes were often built only once protest letters reached political decision-makers.
She called for school classes to be involved more consistently in public-participation processes so that young people would not appear merely as decoration.
Only in this way could sustainable traffic concepts be communicated credibly, argued the author.
Key vocabulary
Comprehension check
Use the language
Writing prompt
Write a short German response about a similar situation. Reuse at least three expressions from the passage.
Speaking prompt
Retell the passage in German, then explain which detail you found most important.
Answer key and explanations
School classes.
Line 2 explicitly calls for greater involvement of school classes.
participation procedures
"Beteiligungsverfahren" is glossed as participation procedures in the vocabulary row.
Only in this way could sustainable traffic concepts be communicated credibly, argued the author.
The passage states: “Only in this way could sustainable traffic concepts be communicated credibly, argued the author.”
