Luisteren: wat-vraag
A question with wat (or waarover, welke) about a thing: what someone buys, looks for, has, or what happened.
The answer is a noun or a short event — twee bruine broden, het postkantoor, hij is gevallen. A short fragment names several things, and the wrong options are the other things in it: the church on the route, the size the shop assistant offers, the train that is on time. The difficulty is keeping the question's verb in mind — koopt, zoekt, heeft — while the nouns pile up.
How the exam tests this
The A2 Luisteren part is multiple choice on short audio fragments — a customer at the bakery, directions in the street, a voicemail from the school, a talk at the doctor's — and it is computer-marked. We have 29 wat-questions in our A2 bank. Their wrong options come from the same fragment: the other object that was named, one half of a pair, numbers swapped between two things, or the name of the sender instead of the subject. Every wrong option is something you really heard.
What is wrong with this sentence?
Vier bruine broden
Most candidates write it exactly like this and lose the mark without knowing why.
The rest of this lesson
The rule, the worked examples, the exceptions and what to do in the exam room open with Mastery, together with every other lesson for this exam.
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