TCF Canada speaking guides
TCF Canada speaking is a 12-minute one-to-one oral with an examiner, in three tasks. These guides cover the directed interview, the questions you ask in Task 2 and the topics they tend to come from, how to build an argument in Task 3 — including when the examiner disagrees with you — and what pronunciation and fluency are judged on.
TCF Canada Speaking Task 1: The Unprepared Interview
TCF Canada speaking Task 1 gives you no prep time. Here's what the interview is designed to test, and how to build unscripted fluency instead of a script.
TCF Canada speaking task 2: how to not run out of questions
Most Task 2 advice teaches a fixed question list. That works in rehearsal, where nobody answers back — it falls apart the moment a real answer doesn't match the script.
TCF Canada speaking Task 2: topic types and your questions
Task 2 gives you an unfamiliar scenario and two minutes. Learn the recurring scenario families and how to build a question set from any prompt fast.
TCF Canada Speaking Task 2: Three Worked Examples
Three complete Task 2 exchanges in French with English glosses, showing the open/follow-up/close mechanic applied to fresh, clearly-invented scenarios.
TCF Canada speaking task 3: when the examiner disagrees with you
The examiner isn't agreeing with you and isn't supposed to. Task 3 argues the opposite of whatever you say, on purpose, to see if your position survives contact.
TCF Canada speaking Task 3: building an argument fast, before the pushback
By the time the examiner pushes back, your position is already set. What decides how defensible it is happens in the first ten to fifteen seconds, before either of you has said much.
TCF Canada Speaking Task 3 Worked Examples
Two complete, invented Task 3 exchanges in French with paragraph-by-paragraph commentary, showing the argue-then-defend structure running start to finish.
TCF Canada speaking: what correctors actually listen for in pronunciation and fluency
TCF Canada speaking is marked on four published criteria, not on how native your accent sounds. What pronunciation, intelligibility and fluency actually reward.