Exams

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has recognized the TEF for these purposes since 2002. The TEF format that applies to these procedures is TEF Canada.

For these procedures, it recognizes the TEF Québec (TEFAQ) examination.

• The candidate can understand the essential elements of very simple written professional documents in order to carry out professional tasks.
• He/she can understand the essential aspects of a short, predictable message – face to face or over the telephone – in order to carry out very simple professional tasks.
• The candidate can write very short, standardised messages relating to common social and professional activities.

Communicating orally:

The candidate can establish very simple social and professional contacts and communicate in order to carry out professional tasks in a limited number of known or predictable situations.

• The candidate can understand the essential elements of simple written professional documents in order to carry out simple, common professional tasks.
• He/she can write short, familiar messages relating to common social and professional activities.
• He/she can understand the essential aspects of a short, predictable message face to face or over the telephone, when it is within the scope of his/her usual professional experience.
• Communicating orally:

The candidate can, using simple language, establish social contact, describe his/her experience and activities, exchange factual information, express an opinion or a preference, ask questions, etc., in a limited number of practical situations on common and familiar subjects.

• The candidate can understand the essential elements of simple, common professional reports, texts and documents.
• He/she can understand the essential elements of a message that is predictable (in form and content), face to face or over the telephone, within the scope of his/her professional experience.
• The candidate can take elements that are suppled and organise them in a given format, write common types of messages related to familiar social and professional activities.

Communicating orally:

The candidate can take part in exchanges about familiar topics in his/her professional context, describe what he/she is doing, exchange factual information, discuss an option and provide explanations in practical situations concerning known topics.

• The candidate can understand the important details of the majority of professional documents in the company. He/she is able to pick out relevant information from professional documents (reports, instruction manuals, instructions, notes, e-mails, letters, etc.) to act effectively.
• He/she can understand long, structured presentations or conversations and take notes in order to write minutes, summaries, reports, etc.

Communicating orally:

The candidate is able to present structured information and relevant arguments to convince his/her interlocutor or audience; he/she can react to other people’s arguments and defend a point of view in formal situations involving presentation or interaction (meetings, round-tables, negotiation, etc.)

• The candidate can understand and process a wide range of long, complex documents, written or oral, precisely identifying the viewpoints and arguments, even implicit, while appreciating nuances of style and tone.
• He/she is able to write structured and precise professional documents, nuanced and adapted to their audience, as part of a commercial transaction or in response to a defined problem.

Communicating orally:

The candidate is able to develop rich, precise arguments, to structure his/her speech with refinement and to adapt with flexibility to unforeseen events. He/she can improvise a well-adapted, effective response to a complex or unexpected question. 

• Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.
• Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.
• Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

DELF A2 Descriptor

• can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
• Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

• Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
• Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
• Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
• Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

• Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation.
• Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
• Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

•  DELF A1 junior version highlights the first knowledges in French language of teenagers between 12 and 18 years old. DELF A1 junior version recognizes basic knowledge. It is the most basic level at which a language is used, called the “discovery” stage.
• At this stage, the learner can interact in a simple way: he/she can speak about him/herself and his/her immediate environment. This examination benefits from a very positive evaluation which is not made to sanction but to highlight the French learning. The topics of DELF A1 junior version exam take into account the interests of young people. DELF A1 junior version constitutes a good stage to motivate teenagers in their French learning by recognizing the efforts they made to learn French.

• DELF A2 junior version is based on the same principle of DELF A1 junior version. It is intended for teenagers between 12 and 18 years old in middle and high-school. DELF A2 junior version recognizes the linguistic competency of a basic user, considered as a social actor.
• The candidate can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring the most common polite phrases and exchanges of information. This examination benefits from a very positive evaluation which is not made to sanction but to highlight the French learning. The topics of DELF A2 junior version exam take into account the interests of young people. DELF A2 junior version constitutes a good stage to motivate teenagers in their French learning by recognizing the efforts they made to learn French.

• At level B1, the user becomes independent. He/she can maintain interaction: he/she can understand and maintain a discussion and give his/her opinion. He/she is capable of dealing with situations likely to arise in daily life.
• ØThe topics of DELF B1 junior version exam take into account the interests of young people. DELF B1 junior version constitutes a good stage to motivate teenagers in their French learning by recognizing the efforts they made to learn French.

• A B2 user has a degree of independence that allows him/her to construct arguments to defend his/her opinion, explain his/her viewpoint and negotiate. At this level, the candidate has a degree of fluency and spontaneity in regular interactions and is capable of correcting his/her own mistakes. B2 is the highest level of DELF junior version.
• Please note that, except dispensation, DELF B2 is compulsory to follow studies in the French higher education. The topics of DELF B2 junior version exam take into account the interests of young people.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has recognized the TEF for these purposes since 2002. The TEF format that applies to these procedures is TEF Canada.

For these procedures, it recognizes the TEF Québec (TEFAQ) examination.