FlexiLingoThe hard part of Expression Orale Tâche 2 is not the French. It is that you get a short document and have to ask the right questions about it, quickly, in a register that sounds like a real request for information rather than a language exercise.
Each sujet here is a complete document of the kind the task uses — a museum's visitor information, a festival programme with prices, a cultural centre's workshop registration — followed by what the examiner is listening for.
Two layers on every page
- The material itself, in French. This is the exam; it is not translated, because on the day it will not be.
- The explanation layer, in the language you learn in — the vocabulary the document assumes, the structures the task expects, and why a given phrasing works.
What the dates on a page mean
Where a page says a theme has been in circulation since a date, it means exactly that: the theme keeps appearing, across independent sources. It is not a claim that a specific prompt appeared in a specific exam — candidate reports cannot support that, and pages that say otherwise are usually republishing the exam boards' own published samples.
The reference pages
Alongside the sujets there are two pages that answer the questions everyone asks first: how the test is structured and marked, and how a TCF result maps onto the NCLC levels that immigration files are actually read against.
This section is being written now
The sujets published so far cover Expression Orale Tâche 2 on cultural themes, set in Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa and Toronto. New themes are added as they are written, and nothing is published before it has been checked against the task it claims to practise.