TCF Canada · Task 1
Introduce yourself to a French conversation service
Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TechnologyReported period: 2026-01
Instructions (in French)
Sur un site Internet, vous êtes tombé(e) sur une annonce d'un service qui met en relation des personnes désireuses de progresser en français avec des partenaires de conversation. Vous répondez par courriel : présentez-vous et dites pour quelles raisons vous souhaitez parler français.
(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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