TCF Canada · Task 1
Reply to a language exchange ad by email
Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)SocietyReported period: 2026-05
Instructions (in French)
Envie de parler français dans une atmosphère détendue ? Cherchez, dans votre ville, quelqu'un avec qui discuter en français.
Écrivez-nous à echange@linguistique.com
En réponse à cette annonce, parlez de vous, de ce qui vous passionne, et expliquez pourquoi vous aimeriez trouver un partenaire pour pratiquer le 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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