TCF Canada · Task 1

Introduce yourself in your new city’s newspaper

Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)Culture & leisureSocietyReported period: 2024-05

Instructions (in French)

Le journal « Bienvenue » prépare un article sur les gens qui vivent dans notre ville et publiera votre message dans son prochain numéro. Vous venez d’arriver ici : présentez-vous, puis parlez des endroits de la ville que vous aimez le plus. (Entre 60 et 120 mots)

The prompt opens in the editor, with a word counter and an accent keyboard.

What this task asks for

Text type
message — Write a message to a recipient named in the prompt, to describe, narrate or explain something.
Word count
60 to 120 words
Time
60 minutes for all three tasks, split as you like
Published assessment criteria
  • Linguistic competence: range of vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, spelling, sentence complexity
  • Pragmatic competence: coherence, cohesion and development of the topic
  • Sociolinguistic competence: fit with the communication situation

Indicative estimate, not an official score.

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