Alliance Française de Manchester
THE OFFICIAL CENTRE FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
e-TEF Canada General Presentation
The e-TEF Canada is the electronic version of the TEF Canada (Test
d’Evaluation de Français pour le Canada) which measures the current level of
your skills and knowledge in general French.
The e-TEF Canada is the electronic version of the TEF Canada which measures
the current level of your skills and knowledge in general French. Both the oral
comprehension (listening) and written comprehension (reading) exams are
carried out on a computer.
The e-TEF Canada gives you a certificate stating your results. This certificate is
valid for two years only.
No dictionaries are allowed.
The e-TEF Canada is made up of 4 obligatory tests: speaking, listening,
reading and writing. You MUST take each one of these tests to be able to pass
the examination.
The four different tests are as follows:
 1. The oral expression (SPEAKING) test
(2 sections - 20 minutes)
Objective: to measure your ability to communicate in French orally.
Section A
Getting information, asking 10 questions from a short
Role-playing
written trigger document in French.
situation
1. Presenting the contents of a written document to
Section B
the examiner using your own words in French..
Role-playing
2. From this document, discussing, giving your
situation
opinion and persuading the examiner to do
something.
Examiners will assess you on:
 your ability to communicate (dealing appropriately with the topic,
relevance of information put forward, quality of the dialogue with the
examiners)
 linguistic criteria (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation)
AF de Manchester – March 2016
Alliance Française de Manchester
THE OFFICIAL CENTRE FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
 2. The oral comprehension (LISTENING) test
(4 sections - 60 questions - 40 minutes)
Objective: to measure your ability to understand spoken French.
This test takes the form of a Multiple Choice Questionnaire. There are 60
questions altogether. The questions (including phonetics questions) range in
difficulty and are based on all sorts of documents relating to daily life.
Section A
Matching drawings with oral messages
(8 questions)
Understanding short messages: matching with
Section B
written summary (general meaning and
(26 questions)
context)
Section C
Understanding long messages in detail.
(16 questions)
Deciding on intentions and opinions.
Section D
Recognising and making the difference
(10 questions)
between sounds.
 3. The written comprehension (READING) test
(4 sections – 50 questions – 1 hour)
Objective: to measure your ability to read and understand written documents.
This test takes the form of a Multiple Choice Questionnaire.
The types of texts used are: newspaper articles, graphs, advertisements, letters
to the press, etc.
The types of exercises that you may encounter are: Answer a set of questions in
response to a text, Fill in the blanks of a text, Organize jumbled texts into the
correct order, Reformulate sentences correctly.
Section A
(10 questions)
Section B
(25 questions)
Section C
(10 questions)
Section D
(5 questions)
Establish the general context of a document
(where? who? for whom? when? to what aim?)
Understand a document in detail, including key
points in the document.
Understand the structure and logic behind a
text.
Understand the broad meaning of a sentence.
AF de Manchester – March 2016
Alliance Française de Manchester
THE OFFICIAL CENTRE FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
For the listening and reading parts of the exam, points are awarded as
follows:
- for a correct answer
+1 point
- for no answer or a cancelled answer or “je ne sais pas”
0 point
- for a wrong answer or several answers
0 point
For each question (including questions of phonetics), you will have the choice
between 3, 5 or even 6 answers, but only one answer is the right one.
 4. The written expression (WRITING) test
(2 sections - 1 hour)
Objective: to measure your ability to communicate in French in writing.
The types of documents used are: beginning of newspaper articles, presentation
of everyday life situations.
Section A
Writing a story using past tenses.
Giving your opinion and presenting arguments to
Section B
defend it.
Examiners will assess you on:
 your ability to communicate (dealing appropriately with the topic,
relevance of information put forward, organisation and clarity of the
information)
 linguistic criteria (grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation)
IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE:
1. As the e-TEF Canada papers are entirely in French (including all instructions),
the AF de Manchester recommends that you study French for at least 150
hours before attempting to take the test;
2. The “advanced intermediate level” (B2 of the CEFRL) required by the
Canadian authorities to attribute points corresponds to approximately 400500 hours of study;
3. AF de Manchester offers regular sessions with a limited number of places
(see our website for more information).
AF de Manchester – March 2016