TCF Canada · Task 1
Tell friends about your birthday night and best gifts
Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)Culture & leisureReported period: 2025-04
Instructions (in French)
Vous avez fêté votre anniversaire il y a peu. Écrivez à vos amis pour leur raconter le déroulement de la soirée. Dites ce qui vous a le plus plu et citez les présents que vous avez préférés.
(60 mots minimum/120 mots maximum)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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