⁨B1 – piszę, mówię i zdaję!⁩ review — model texts for the B1 Polish exam

What this book is

B1 – piszę, mówię i zdaję! ("B1 — I write, I speak and I pass!") is a short, 64-page handbook published in 2020 by the Linguae Mundi language foundation in Warsaw and written by a team of examiners and teachers. It describes every written and spoken form that the B1 exam may ask for and shows a model answer for each one, with its word count. It contains no exercises.

Who it suits best

• Candidates who are already practising and want to know what a good answer looks like.
• People who struggle with structure: how to begin, build and finish a letter, a report or a monologue.
• Teachers preparing writing and speaking lessons.

Who should pick something else

• Anyone who needs practice or feedback — there are no tasks and no answer key.
• Learners who want a complete course or mock tests.
• Candidates looking for formal letters and descriptions of people and places: an academic comparison found these forms missing.
• Buyers who expect a lot: shop ratings are the lowest on our list.

What's inside

Two parts that follow the exam:

1. Written forms — narrative, report, blog entry, letters, review, essay, greetings, invitation, announcement, thanks, notice.
2. Spoken forms — describing a photo, monologue, dialogue.

Each form follows the same pattern: what it is for, its structure (a diagram for short forms; introduction, body and ending for long ones), typical phrases highlighted, and an authentic model text with its word count.

What learners and teachers say

Opinions are scarce and mixed. On the polishbookstore.pl shop the book has 3.4 out of 5 from 31 ratings — the lowest score on our list — with no written reviews explaining it (checked October 2026). A learner who described their route to B1 on the Belarusian tech portal devby.io (2024) called it "a decent thing for preparing for the essay and the oral part". An academic comparison of B1 writing materials (Grochala, University of Łódź, 2022) credits it with a clear presentation of each form's structure and style, but stresses that "the book has no exercises at all; it is only descriptive", and that it covers the fewest of the exam's written forms among the books compared — formal letters and descriptions of people and places, for example, are missing.

Our verdict

A niche companion. Read it to understand what each exam form looks like; then practise with Pisz po polsku! or Zdaj się na polski!, and get your own texts checked — for example with our writing and speaking practice with AI feedback.