TEF Canada Expression Orale Section A – offre d’emploi Example + Tips

In the TEF Canada expression orale, part A, you will see an announcement like this. In this video, I will show you how you could be evaluated from A2 to C1 based on the types of questions you ask.

First, let's see a sample for A2 level.

Quel est le poste proposé?

Où se trouve l'entreprise?

Quel est le salaire?

Quels sont les horaires de travail?

Faut-il avoir de l'expérience?

As you see, at this level, you just ask random questions or general questions, like for example, where, how much, when, what to do, and you just ask questions without paying attention to the examiner's answer.

You just ask the following question without, you know, no matter how or what the examiner is answering you, so if you are acting like that, you're at A2 level. Now, let's see B2 level.

Quels sont les avantages sociaux inclus dans ce poste?

Y a-t-il des possibilités de promotion?

Quelle est la taille de l'équipe avec laquelle je vais travailler?

Est-ce que l'entreprise propose des formations internes?

Combien d'années d'expérience sont requises?

At this level, you go beyond facts to show that you're able to handle practical details, comparison and conditions.

Questions may involve rules, availability or explanations, like for example, you ask, are pets allowed?

And then the examiner says, for example, yes, and then you shouldn't go to the next question.

You should to follow up, like for ask for more details, like for example, what are the conditions? So, you know, the questions that you ask is based on the examiner's answer.

So you don't just ask random questions, that's really important and you have to take into consideration if you want at least B2 level. Now, let's see C1 level.

Quelles compétences seraient essentielles si l'entreprise voulait se développer à l'international?

Y a-t-il des possibilités de promotion?

Si je réussissais dans ce poste, quelles perspectives à long terme s'ouvriraient à moi?

Qu'attendriez-vous d'un candidat idéal au-delà des compétences techniques?

Comment réagiriez-vous si un employé ne respectait pas la culture de l'entreprise?

Quel défi faudrait-il relever si l'entreprise passait au télétravail complet?

At C1 level, the situation is completely different.

Not only you have to follow up on the questions, on the answers of the examiner and asking for more detail, you have to cover all the aspect of the situation that you are in, like for example, if it's a job posting, you have to ask about every possible situation that you might think of.

Like for example, salary, uh, you know, the qualification that you have to have or for example, uh, vacation leave.

Whatever that you face in a real situation, so you have to ask those questions.

And that's the basic thing that you have to do is like B2 level, but what makes it C1 level is using of complex grammatical structure, like for example, uh, conditionals and, you know, for example, subjunctives, those are really important that you have to use, like for example, pourriez-vous me dire, that's a conditional thing that you have to use or inversion, you know, inversion de sujet.

It's really important when you want to ask a question and get at least C1 level, so again to achieve a good result in the TEF expression orale, don't just ask random or template questions.

Use a wide range of grammatical structures including subjunctives and conditionals and ask follow-up questions based on the examiner's answer. In our speaking course, we teach you how to handle part A and part B of the test of expression orale.

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