TEF Canada is the exam most people meet on the way to Canadian permanent residence through the francophone streams. Since December 2023 it runs as 40 multiple-choice reading questions in 60 minutes, 40 listening questions in 40 minutes, and four production tasks that were left unchanged by the revision: continue a fait divers news item in at least 80 words, write a 200-word letter to a newspaper arguing a position with at least three arguments, make a formal phone call to ask about an advertisement (in vous, aiming for around ten questions), and persuade a friend to join an activity (in tu, with the examiner playing the reluctant friend).
Every one of those tasks runs on set language: journalistic past-tense narration for the fait divers, letter openings and argumentation connectors for the letter, polite question formulas for the call, proposal-and-reassurance moves for the persuasion task. Examiners reward candidates who deploy that register effortlessly — and it is exactly the layer a general French course never drills.
How the course maps to the exam
The French for TEF Canada & TCF Canada course teaches that layer directly: eleven vocabulary lessons covering the domains the exam draws on (immigration paperwork, work, housing, services, health, news items, the big debate topics — plus the Canadian French of the life you're moving to), two lessons of argumentation formulas both exams share, and a dedicated kit lesson for each TEF task — Writing A, Writing B, Speaking A, Speaking B — whose lecture explains the task's format, timing and register before drilling its formulas.
The course assumes roughly B1 French. If you're earlier than that, start with the main French course, which runs from beginner to B2 — the level band CLB 7 sits in — and come back to aim it at the exam.
No sign-up needed to start. Every lesson is free.
What this deliberately does not do
Nobody here grades your letters or simulates the speaking examiner, and the comprehension exercises are not in the exam's multiple-choice format — we drill the language, not the test mechanics. For format practice, the official free materials (CCI Paris's app and the published test blanc) are good, and we'd rather point you there than pretend. What you get here is the part that compounds: the vocabulary and the formulas, held in memory by a schedule that brings each one back just before you'd lose it.
No sign-up needed to start. Every lesson is free.