Module test 4 (modultest 3.4): what is in it and how to prepare

Module test 4 is the last module test on Danskuddannelse 3. After it comes Prøve i Dansk 3. The level is B1, and the test asks you to do B1 things: present a topic about Danish society with a focus, weigh advantages against disadvantages, read texts from the municipality, spell ten words yourself in an open cloze, and write a blog post with an opinion. Here is what is in it, and how I prepare students for it.

The oral part

1. A presentation with a focus

You get a topic sheet with two topics about Danish conditions, for example Sundhed (health), Klima (climate), Integration, Moderne livsstil (modern lifestyle) or Ligestilling (equality), and you choose one and present it “med fokus på …” something narrower: health with a focus on stress at work, climate with a focus on transport. One to two minutes of presentation, then three to four minutes of questions that ask you to justify what you said.

The presentation needs a shape: an opening sentence that says what the focus is, two or three points, and a closing sentence with your own view. The questions afterwards are the ones I use in every lesson at this level:

• Hvad er fordelene ved det?What are the advantages of that?
• Hvorfor tror du, det er sådan?Why do you think it is like that?
• Hvordan er det i dit hjemland?How is it in your home country?
• Hvad synes du selv?What do you think yourself?

2. Advantages and disadvantages

You get a picture with a set of fixed questions about the advantages and disadvantages of what it shows: working from home, electric cars, a big family, moving to the countryside. First you answer alone for about three minutes, then you discuss it with another student for about four. The language is the language of weighing things:

• En fordel ved at arbejde hjemme er, at man sparer tid.
• På den anden side kan man blive ensom.
• Jeg synes, fordelene er større end ulemperne.

You can practise the oral part in the free practice test: a presentation with a focus and the tester’s questions, which are read aloud when you tap, and the pros and cons with a partner who disagrees. You can record yourself and listen afterwards.

The reading part (50 minutes)

• Multiple-choice cloze: eight gaps, four choices each. Usually a text about Danish society.
• Gap text with sentences: five sentences have been taken out of a text; you get seven and put five back.
• Open cloze: a text with ten gaps and no choices. You write the word yourself, and it has to be spelled right. The missing words are small and grammatical: der, som, at, om, bliver, sig.
• Six short texts: a message from borger.dk, a text message, a notice, each with a multiple-choice question.

You can take the reading part as a free practice test, with the clock and the four tasks as in the test.

The open cloze is new from 2026 and is the part that fails people. The trick is that the missing word is almost never a content word. Look at the grammar around the gap: is a verb missing, a preposition, a conjunction, a pronoun? Then the number of possible words is small.

The writing part (90 minutes)

• A reply email of at least 125 words to a friend who asks you about something in your life.
• A blog post of at least 100 words where you respond to a statement, say whether you agree or disagree, and give short reasons.

The blog post is the B1 skill in one task: an opinion, an argument for it, a counter-argument you take seriously, and a conclusion. A hundred words is one paragraph per move. In the free course, you write it with a checklist that ticks off each move as you type.

The email and the blog post are in the free practice test too, with the 90-minute clock and a checklist for each text when you hand in.

The topics in module 4

The test draws on the module’s topics, and they are the ones you will meet as an adult in Denmark: the duty to be available for work and to look for jobs actively, the union system (fagforening, a-kasse, overenskomst), applications and job interviews, the fundamental values (equality, children’s rights, freedom of religion), the unwritten rules, and Denmark then and now, from a farming country to an industrial one, with emigration and immigration. Knowing the words for these is half the reading test.

How to prepare

1. Build two presentations with a focus and rehearse them with a timer and the four questions above.
2. Learn the weighing phrases and use them about anything: your commute, your phone, your kitchen.
3. Do open clozes with hints. Cover the missing word in any B1 text and guess it from the grammar. In the free course, each gap tells you what kind of word to look for, and a near-miss in spelling gets a hint rather than a red mark.
4. Write three blog posts of 100 words with the four moves, and three emails of 125.
5. Read borger.dk. The six short texts are that kind of Danish: official, dense, and full of words you can learn in an afternoon.

In the free course, module 4 has six presentation topics with a focus, the pros and cons task with three pictures and a text partner who disagrees, three reading sets in the four formats including the open cloze, three emails and four blog posts, and exercises on the grammar that B1 needs: the passive, som and der, connectors like derfor and alligevel, indirect speech, an unemployment insurance form, and an application.