TCF Canada Writing: Task 2

How the Task 2 trainer works

TCF Canada writing has three tasks in one hour. Task 2 is a text of 120 to 150 words for an audience: a blog article, a message to friends, a reply on a forum or a formal letter. Most of the time you recount something you lived and say what you thought of it, for readers who were not there. Marks go missing on the passé composé and the imparfait, on agreements and accents, on a text that forgets its reader, and on a text that runs short or long. This trainer teaches the writing one sentence at a time, then one paragraph, then the whole text.

What the reported prompts ask

Candidates reported 562 Task 2 listings on public archives between January 2022 and October 2026; the 127 prompts here cover 483 of them. The listings fall into 8 text types: an event you went to (27%), learning and work (17.3%), a cause or a sport (14.9%), a trip or an arrival (11%), advice and opinions (9.4%), a change in your life (8.9%), a person, a job, a custom (6.9%), a complaint or a bad review (4.4%). The 4 types that recount an experience make 70% of the listings on their own, so the same skeleton comes back again and again: set the scene, say what happened, what you liked and what you liked less, then what you take from it or recommend.

Five rungs, one chapter per text type

Each text type is a chapter with five rungs: blocks (one sentence from an English cue), swaps (the same frame bent to a new situation, tense or agreement), pairs (two or three linked sentences), a paragraph (a real answer with one paragraph missing: you read the text around the gap and the plan, then write it in 8minutes, 25 to 85 words) and the full text under a 20-minute clock, 120 to 150 words. The swaps open once 80% of the blocks are cleared, the pairs once a third of the swaps are, the paragraphs at 80% of the pairs. The daily plan asks for all three paragraphs of a text type, the opening, the middle and the ending, before its full text. In all: 136 blocks, 449 swaps, 56 pairs and 24 paragraphs.

Perfect, or back in the cycle

You type the French; the trainer compares it letter by letter. A perfect answer clears the sentence; one slip puts it back a few sentences later, with the exact difference shown. Cleared sentences come back after 1, 2, 4, 7 and 14 days. Task 2 has its own daily plan in minutes, its own road to your exam date and its own progress, separate from Task 1.

The report

For a paragraph or a full text the trainer counts words the exam's way and checks what the format needs: a short title for a blog article, a greeting and a sign-off for a message, a formal greeting and sign-off for a letter. It flags a mixed tu and vous, a recount with no passé composé, an infinitive after avoir or être (j'ai visiter for j'ai visité), contraction and elision slips and long sentences. For each detail the prompt asks for it says what it found and leaves the rest to you, beside a model answer. A second check reads a sentence you wrote another way than the trainer, and a review reads the whole text: every error with its fix, the details covered, the register, a corrected version and the level of the text.

Free to start

The first 30 sentences need no account. After that, sign in to keep going; your cycle and your texts are saved to your account. The first text type, an event you went to, and the trainer's own marking stay free, with a few second checks and a review to try, shared with Task 1. InfinLume Pro, the subscription in the InfinLume app, adds the 7 other text types, a second check on every sentence and a review of every text. Task 1, the short message, has its own trainer.

Adapt, do not recite

These are prompts candidates reported, not a prediction of yours. France Éducation international warns candidates against texts learned by heart. That is why the trainer gives you frames to adapt rather than texts to memorise: the same sentence comes back with a new person, a new tense, a new place, until you can build it for any prompt.