TEF Canada · Section A

From rags to riches overnight

Candidate-reported prompt (reworded)OtherReported period: 2025-11

Instructions (in French)

Complétez l’article de presse suivant. Ajoutez à la suite un texte de 80 mots minimum. Rédigez votre production en plusieurs paragraphes. Du jour au lendemain, un jeune homme passe de la misère à la fortune Raphaël, 26 ans, a décroché le gros lot de 5 millions d’euros lors du tirage du 1er janvier 2019. La veille encore, il était persuadé d’avoir tout perdu…

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What this task asks for

Text type
news story — Starting from the opening of a short news story, write the rest of the article in several paragraphs.
Word count
at least 80 words
Time
25 minutes (60 minutes in total, each section is timed separately)
Published assessment criteria
  • Quality and effectiveness of the text: fit with the situation, organisation, clarity of information and arguments
  • Range and control of language: vocabulary, syntax (sentences, tenses, moods) and spelling

Indicative estimate, not an official score.

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