TEF Canada · French With Guri

Expression écrite — the writing course

Everything for the TEF Canada writing module in one place: find your level, build the foundations, master both exam sections, drill the grammar, and simulate the real test. English explanations, French throughout.

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The path→ Find your level → Chapters 1–9 (the course) → Timed rooms & correction → Exam simulation · Reference library alongside
Start

Find your level

🎯 Placement Diagnostic15 quick questions that place you in Foundations, Builder, or Mastery — the first thing every new student does.
Optional

Gentle start (Stage 0)

absolute beginners only — the chapters below cover all of this, deeper

Never written a French sentence? Warm up here first (2–4 short lessons), then join Chapter 1. Everyone else: skip straight to the chapters — they teach everything Stage 0 does, with far more practice.

1Your first sentencesSentence machine, être & avoir, -er verbs, negation. 2Naming & describingle/la, plurals & partitives, adjectives, c'est vs il est. 3Everyday verbsaller, faire, venir, prendre + can/want/must; near future & recent past. 4Talking about the pastPassé composé — then continue in Chapter 5, which covers it in full depth.
Mastery Course

The full chapters

textbook-depth · ~5 h each · A0 → CLB target
1Sentence ArchitectureBuilding a correct French sentence — S-V-O, the subject, the verb (conjugate & agree), word order, negation, pattern bank, model ladder, 300 drills, mock + error-code correction. 2Combining SentencesFrom correct to connected — coordination (et/mais/donc/car), subordination (parce que/que/quand/si), relative pronouns (qui/que/où), punctuation & rhythm, connector bank, Combine Lab, 312 drills, mock + extended error codes. 3Articles & GenderThe small words inside your sentences — noun gender, definite/indefinite/partitive articles, contractions (au/aux/du/des), the "de" rules, plurals & adjective agreement, article-system matrix, "which article?" decision guide, Article Lab, 329 drills, mock + article-pass correction. 4The Present TenseThe verb engine of Section B — regular -er/-ir/-re, the essential irregulars (être/avoir/aller/faire + modals), stem-changers, reflexives, and the uses of the present (habit, truth, opinion, depuis), colour-coded conjugation grids, verb bank, Conjugation Lab, 330 drills, mock + verb-pass correction. 5Passé composé — formation ★ flagshipThe Section A narration engine, built correctly from the ground up — the auxiliary decision (avoir vs être), regular & irregular participles, agreement, reflexives & negation. The full loop: diagnostic → 12 lessons → 360+ staged drills → paragraph labs → 15-minute timed room → AI-coded correction with a mandatory rewrite → error ledger → mastery. 6L'imparfait — formation & use ★ flagshipThe background & description tense, mastered before it needs to share a page with the passé composé — the nous-stem rule, spelling traps (-ger/-cer), and the four uses (description, habit, ongoing action, state). The full loop: diagnostic → 12 lessons → 360+ staged drills → paragraph labs → 15-minute timed room → AI-coded correction with a mandatory rewrite → error ledger → mastery. 7Passé composé vs Imparfait ★ flagshipThe Section-A tense-choice benchmark — events (PC) vs background (imparfait), signal words, the imparfait + quand + PC combo, meaning-shift verbs, building a full fait divers, two-lane timeline visual + decision guide, Mix Lab. Now a complete learning loop: diagnostic → 12 lessons → 400+ staged drills → paragraph labs → 25-minute timed room → AI-coded correction with a mandatory rewrite → error ledger → performance-based mastery. 8Section A — structure & toolkit ★ flagshipTurning grammar into exam performance — the 4-slot fait-divers skeleton, title-first planning, the 5W+H information engine, journalistic register, word-count control, endings, the 128-term scenario bank. The full loop: diagnostic → craft lessons → 410+ staged drills → guided builds → 25-minute timed room (five unseen prompts) → AI-coded correction with a mandatory rewrite → error ledger → mastery. 9Section B — argumentation (the opinion task) ★ flagshipFormal argumentation taught through a reusable 5-zone plan (the letter frame is optional — the exam scores your arguments): statement decoding, the thesis machine, the argument ladder, concession + the safe subjunctive, register, the 128-line argument bank. The full loop: diagnostic → craft lessons → 400+ staged drills (incl. the subjunctive set) → zone builds → 35-minute timed room (five unseen statements) → AI-coded correction with a mandatory rewrite → error ledger → mastery.
Reference

The library

how you're graded · words · models
📐Writing ToolkitThe spine: the internal training rubric for both sections, the error-code sheet, and fill-in templates. 🔗Section B banksConnectors, opinion & nuance, concession, letter formulas, safe phrases. ✉️Section B model letters6 full annotated letters, one structure repeated. 🗂️Section A vocab decks12 fait-divers scenarios: nouns, verbs, phrases. 🗃️Section B theme decks newWave 1: integration, credentials, education, work, tech, environment, health. 📰Section A model continuations6 annotated fait-divers, same 4-slot skeleton.
Practice

Drill & write

auto-graded · instant feedback
🧩Grammar Drill Bank300+ questions across 32 categories. growing ⏱️PC vs Imparfait drillA 16-item warm-up — the full 400-item staged engine lives in Chapter 7. 📝Practice Prompt Bank12 Section A openings + 24 Section B statements to write on, plus the practice loop.
Exam

Simulate the real test

60 min · both sections
✍️Full Exam SimulatorSections A + B under real timing, with AI feedback on our internal TEF-style training rubric.

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