This lesson trains Section B of the TEF Canada Expression Orale. Section A was a formal phone call to a stranger; here the examiner switches roles to play a friend. You're handed a document — usually a flyer or ad for a class, a club, or a trip — and your job is to present it and convince that friend to join you. The exchange runs roughly 10 minutes of real back-and-forth: the examiner doesn't just listen and nod, they push back with genuine objections ("I'm too busy," "that's not really my thing," "I don't have time this week"), and you have to answer each one and keep steering the conversation toward a yes.
The register switch from Section A is the single most heavily graded feature of this task. Section A's stranger on the phone got vous, careful politeness, and a funnel of verification questions. Section B's friend gets tu throughout, with no exceptions, plus a warmer and more natural sentence rhythm, real enthusiasm, and formulas built to head off resistance before it lands. Slipping back into vous here, even once, reads as a register error and costs points — prep sites consistently flag it as one of the most common ways candidates lose marks on this section.
The formulas below cover the whole arc of that conversation: open with your opinion and the invitation itself, reassure your friend the activity is worth their time, concede a fair point without abandoning your position, and close warmly once they're in. For example:
| Would you like to come with me to a session? | Ça te dirait de venir avec moi à une séance ? |
Drill these until the tutoiement forms — tu, te, ton/ta, the imperative viens — come out automatically, without having to stop and think about which register you're in.
