TCF Canada Task 2: 181 writing prompts

Text type

article, letter or note — Write for several readers about an experience or event, adding comments, opinions and arguments for a clear purpose.

Word count

120 to 150 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

• Tell blog readers about a major festival at homeOfficial prompt · France Éducation internationalTCF Canada · Task 2
• Complaint against a disappointing travel agencyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog post about a new relaxing activityCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Contest: the existence of my favourite artistCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Recount taking part in the Taste WeekCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about your visit to a book fairCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Air Tropiques forum: your best trip everCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog article about an event you recently attendedCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell a friend about your first week in MontréalCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about a great holiday in your home regionCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Share your experience with a neighbourhood associationCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Review a gym on its websiteCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell the story of discovering a new country on holidayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe your arrival in a foreign countryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Share your flatsharing experienceCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell the story of a memorable ceremony or partyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Facebook comment: pros and cons of studying abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog post on your best travel memoryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Complaint after a failed package tripCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog post about a neighbours’ partyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Forum post: how you learned a foreign languageCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Profile a person you admire for what they didCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Advise a young woman who wants to study abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Propose a venue for 100 guests at the year-end partyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Online courses debate: share your own experienceCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about your holiday in a lovely regionCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Visiting an exhibition on your favourite artistCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Memories of a cooking contest on your blogCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog post about your favourite band’s concertCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe the achievement of someone you admireCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Hosting a foreign student for a weekCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Contest entry: present your favourite artistCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about your first job abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Look back on your studies at a foreign universityCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell the story of appearing on a TV showCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Changing your life overnight: what do you think?Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog about a day at a flea marketCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about a festive family gatheringCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe meals in your country for a food websiteCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about World Cleanup DayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe a traditional celebration you experiencedCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A year around the world: good or bad idea?Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog about a cooking workshop you tookCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog about a cooking competition you enteredCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Seven days hosting a young foreign studentCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Leaving the city for the countryside: why you did itCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Report on a sporting event for your websiteCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Announce a hall for a music school’s eveningCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Share your experience living with older peopleCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Suggest visits for two friends staying a fortnightCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog about a night out at a show with friendsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe your arrival and feelings in a foreign countryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog post on a session at a fitness clubCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Explain why you changed your eating habitsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Reassure a user anxious about a year studying abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Report on the “Car-free week” campaignCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell about an event that deeply affected youCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell about a day in the countryside with friendsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about the music school’s open dayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog about an arts competition you took part inCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Company training day: what you took awayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell 19-year-old Julie about your year abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Quitting your favourite social network: how it wentCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Eco evening at university to save the planetCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Historic sites and local dishes for visiting friendsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your first week at a new companyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Email friends about a work stay abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• What you liked about a school exchange abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Complaint letter about a badly planned stayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about a family reunion you enjoyedCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Sports competition: place, date and organisationCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Story of a day at a brocanteCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe a traditional festival you witnessedCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Discovery ideas for friends staying during their leaveCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Experiences and feelings from your last trip abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about a family partyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Reply to Justine, worried before a year of study abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell about a creative contest (song, painting)Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Friday at the music school: lessons and concertsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog on the car-free week and your opinion of itCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe your neighbourhood’s block partyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe your summer job to friendsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Advise Julie, 19, leaving home to study far awayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Living with an older person: how to cope?Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• What to see and taste? A January visit to your countryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Article on your appearance on a TV programmeCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• First steps in a new hobby: sport or danceCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Recommend a hall for 100 people to a music schoolCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A week with a foreign student: what it gave youCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Living with an elder: an experience that helps you growCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Reply to Aaron and Perla: sights and local foodCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• An unforgettable evening at a film, play or concertCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Quit everything to travel for a year: good idea?Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tribute to a person you admire as a role modelCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Obstacles and methods in learning a foreign languageCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• The gym: atmosphere, equipment and coachesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Arriving abroad: first impressions and difficultiesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Back from holiday in a country new to youCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Neighbourhood group: homework help, trips and gamesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Car-free week: dates, place and activitiesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Urging people to join a group helping older peopleCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Story of an important event that moved youCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Online courses forum: what you liked or dislikedCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A holiday in a superb region of your countryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your favourite artist’s exhibition: the worksCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Find a venue for 100 guests at the company partyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• The fun of buying and selling at a flea marketCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Message about the music school’s open dayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A day in the country: activities, scenery and animalsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Living in the country rather than the city: benefitsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Article for colleagues about a training dayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Review of classes at a gym on its websiteCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell the story of your course at a language schoolCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A gym class: atmosphere, equipment and coachesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Contest article on your artist (two-week stay prize)Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your online course: strengths and difficultiesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Flatsharing with friends: your experience and viewCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Comment on studying abroad: benefits and obstaclesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Convince a friend to visit the country you went toCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Newsletter article on a company picnicCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Report on the training day your employer sent you toCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Rate a language course on a forumCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your favourite artist’s concert: urge readers to goCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A traditional festival you joined, at home or abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Table habits in your country for a food websiteCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Leaving everything for a year: your view with examplesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your path to French and why languages matterCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Contest: your favourite artist (two-week trip prize)Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Distance learning forum: your own experienceCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A sports class at a local club: session and opinionCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• First week at a language schoolCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe your foreign-language learning on a forumCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Book fair in your city: what you saw thereCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A disappointing festival: what went wrongCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Collecting litter with volunteers on cleanup dayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• The music school’s Saturday open dayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A countryside outing told on your blogCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe your new job in a foreign countryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Quitting it all for a Calgary bakery: your viewCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Blog article on the neighbours’ day partyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Why and how you changed the way you eatCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Contest article on the artist who matters most to youCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A week with a foreign student: what you enjoyedCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Highlights of the book fair told to friendsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Film festival: the film that moved you mostCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Letter to the agency after an unsatisfying trip abroadCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• World cuisines workshop at the Taste WeekCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• New hobby (dance, sport, painting): experience and viewCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Contest: tracing the life of my favourite artistCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your favourite film from a film festivalCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A new sport that can appeal to anyoneCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Volunteering to clean the planet: picking up litterCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Why you stopped using your main social networkCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Advise Marie, 19, about to study in another countryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Email to colleagues about a training dayCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Article on the concert of the artist you admire mostCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Introduce your favourite artist to win a fortnight tripCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Flatshare life: story for colocation.com and your viewCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Report on a university eco-awareness eveningCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell friends about your seasonal summer jobCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Describe a family gathering you loved to friendsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A disappointing festival: what you dislikedCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tourism post about an unknown city that won you overCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Comment on an organised trip to CanadaCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A sports event and your view of such activitiesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A family party: what touched you mostCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your start in a new sport for all kinds of peopleCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• First week in a new job: company, role, tasksCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Cooking competition: how it went, likes and dislikesCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A group class tried at a local gymCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Back from a beautiful region of your countryCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Talk about your job at your local schoolCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Studying abroad: what you gained from itCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Trading city for country: the upside of daily lifeCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Your last restaurant meal: setting, dishes and serviceCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• The best memory from one of your tripsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• First week at Université de Montréal: impressionsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Why you changed your eating habits (forum)Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Back from another city: what the stay gave youCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• A festival that did not live up to expectationsCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2
• Tell the story of a show you saw recentlyCandidate-reported prompt (reworded)TCF Canada · Task 2